People Data Excellence & Data Controls Specialist

Job Posting Title: People Data Excellence & Data Controls Specialist

Location: Unilever Bangalore

About Unilever:

Be part of the world’s most successful, purpose-led business. Work with brands that are well-loved around the world, that improve the lives of our consumers and the communities around us. We promote innovation, big and small, to make our business win and grow; and we believe in business as a force for good. Unleash your curiosity, challenge ideas and disrupt processes; use your energy to make this happen. Our brilliant business leaders and colleagues provide mentorship and inspiration, so you can be at your best. Every day, nine out of ten Indian households use our products to feel good, look good and get more out of life – giving us a unique opportunity to build a brighter future.

Every individual here can bring their purpose to life through their work. Join us and you’ll be surrounded by inspiring leaders and supportive peers. Among them, you’ll channel your purpose, bring fresh ideas to the table, and simply be you. As you work to make a real impact on the business and the world, we’ll work to help you become a better you. 

About UniOps:

Unilever Operations (UniOps) is the global technology and operations engine of Unilever offering business services, technology, and enterprise solutions. UniOps serves over 190 locations and through a network of specialized service lines and partners delivers insights and innovations, user experiences and end-to-end seamless delivery making Unilever Purpose Led and Future Fit.

Main job purpose

The People Data Controls Specialist is responsible for ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of people data at a global level. This role involves managing data quality processes, identifying and resolving data issues, and implementing data governance and control practices to support effective decision-making and reporting.   The candidate will have a good level of Workday HCM and Organizational Hierarchy knowledge, and a passion to develop into a data process control SME.  It is important that you have previous experience of working in Workday, including the ability to perform UAT and contribute to project workshops and discussion using Workday knowledge.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead Workday enhancements by collaborating with key stakeholders to facilitate scoping of business requirements, raising demands, liaising with HR-IT to ensure accurate configuration, support UAT testing, implementation, hyper care and any necessary change and comms support.  

• Plan, design and implement system based preventative controls that ensure accurate entry of data at the initiation stage of data entry, or the next best appropriate step in the process.  Use Test environments for experimentation of solutions, building proof of concept, testing Workday ways of working, feature adoption and feasibility.

• Propose rule based, automated controls, with a view to remove or reduce the amount of manual data correction required across processes.  Alongside performance metrics that measure the efficacy of controls or automations the team implement.

• Liaise and support Journey/Transformational process design or process change to ensure that the PDX data fundamentals, data governance and control principles are embedded to avoid reactive responses to data inaccuracies.

• Maintain central oversight via the Data Controls Framework/Catalogue of Data Control initiatives across PDX and global Journeys and Global Expertise, as appropriate.

• Collaborate with IT and other data departments (ODPA, D&A) to optimize data flow, and data management systems and processes.  Collaborate with data owners and stakeholders to ensure data accuracy and integrity.

• Identify opportunities for process improvements to enhance data quality.

• Create a roadmap of continuous improvement and lead data quality projects and initiatives to drive continuous improvement.

• Liaise and support GPS, Access & Security, MDM and Governance teams within PDX to enable and support initiatives that drive data controls and continuous improvement.  Be the engine that helps drive a holistic approach across the PDX function.

• Have a working knowledge of the Workday reports, able to extract required data for projects.  Experienced in building and loading EIBs for mass data uploads to support large scale change and projects related to large scale correction or data migrations without requiring the support of HRIT. Complete and perform data uploads using EIB’s, review system errors and kick outs, validate corrections.

• Provide training and support to data users on data quality best practices.

• Communicate data quality findings and recommendations to senior management.

Leadership Behaviours and Experience required:

• Bachelor’s degree in data management, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.

• 3-5 years previous experience working within Workday HCM is essential.  Other modules such as Recruitment, Performance, Learning, Organisation Hierarchies would be desirable but not essential.

• Proven experience in data quality management, data governance, or a similar role with transferrable skills.

• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

• Proficiency in data management tools and software (e.g. Excel, Workday, Power BI).

• Experience with SQL, Python, useful but not essential.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

• Ability to work proactively, independently and as part of a global team.

• Knowledge of data protection regulations and best practices.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to identify and resolve data issues.

• Project management skills and the ability to lead data quality initiatives.

• Understands the end of end process or flow of data, with knowledge of the upstream and downstream dependencies.

Key interactions

The role will interface with the following stakeholders:

• People Data Excellence (PDX)

• Global Position Specialist team (GPS)

• Global Access Management (GAM)

• Global Master Data Management (GMDM)

• HR IT (Human Resource Info Technology - Workday/ServiceNow)

• Organization & Analytics (O&A)

• Org Development & People Analytics (OD&PA)

• GMRDR – (Global Master Reference Data Record)

• Joiner, Mover, Leaver process teams (JML)

• Contacts from within all HR Service Lines e.g. Talent, Payroll, Reward, Pensions, Learning, Global Mobility etc.

Travel

• Possible but not extensive

Please Note:

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