Data Officer

Company Description

United Infrastructure Group is a leading infrastructure, construction, and property services company in the UK. We help our customers and the communities they serve benefit from resilient infrastructure, affordable homes, and improved living spaces that are fit for the future. We employ over 1800 people and work with a broad range of public and private sector clients.

Job Description

We are currently recruiting for a Data Officer responsible for ensuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of business-critical master data. This role plays a key part in maintaining trusted data as a shared asset for use across the organization.

- You will have excellent attention to detail and be responsible for the creation and maintenance of master data in line with business rules, policy, data standards and data management approaches.

- Point of escalation for data consumers, to manage requests from the business for new records to be created and to update existing records where necessary, including to carry out matching and merging of records, manual validation and verification of new records

- Create new accounts for new suppliers

- Check Bank Details

- Carry out Finance checks for Subcontractors

- Update Insurance Details

- Update details for current suppliers/sub-contractors

- Fill in new application forms for New Suppliers

- Additional tasks as required by Data & Reporting lead, which could include data cleansing, assisting with creation of Monthly KPI packs and other data related tasks

Qualifications

Essential:

• Data management - You understand data governance and how it works in relation to other organisational governance structures. You can participate in or deliver the assurance of a service.
• Logical and creative thinking skills - You know how to respond to problems in databases, data processes, data products and services as they occur. You can initiate actions, monitor services and identify trends to resolve problems. You know how to determine the appropriate remedy and can help to implement it as well as preventative measures.
• Quality assurance, validation and data linkage abilities - You can recognise and identify appropriate ways to collect, collate and prepare data. You can decide if data is accurate and fit for purpose. You know how to do your own data preparation and cleansing with limited guidance.
• Communication skills - You know about the need to translate technical concepts into non-technical language and understand what communication is required for internal and external stakeholders.

Additional Information

Benefits:

• Bike to work scheme
• Company pension
• Life insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Wellness programmes

Additional Information:

• Must be highly computer literate including Microsoft Office and confident in managing and working with large data sets
• This job is a full-time permanent role, 39 hour contract, 4 days in the office 1 day at home