Masterdata Assistant

Please note this is a 12 month FTC, with hybrid working model (2 days a week in Haywards Heath office)._

Collinson Group is a global leader in driving loyalty and engagement for many of the world’s largest companies. Predominantly through the provision of travel related benefits within a market leading digital travel ecosystem. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading experience in delivering products and services across four core capabilities: Loyalty, Lifestyle Benefits and Insurance.

The group provides unrivalled insight and expertise around affluent consumers and frequent travellers, creating and delivering products and services now accessible to over 400m end consumers.

We have more than 25 years’ experience, with 28 global locations, servicing over 800 clients in 170 countries, employing 1,800 people.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception - from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, EasyJet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 1,800 colleagues globally.

**What does a Masterdata Assistant do at Collinson?**

**Key responsibilities**
- Being responsible for the overall quality and integrity of business-critical master data as a shared asset, to maintain it as a trusted source of data for re-use across the business.
- You will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of master data in line with business rules, policy, data standards and data management approaches; this could include new chart of accounts codes, new finance dimension elements, new project code set up, customer and supplier set up, admin rights on our bank accounts in use and other master data elements.
- You will be a point of escalation for data consumers to manager requests from the business or new records to be created and to update existing records where necessary.
- You will collate business requests to support the change activities in the system for control review purposes.
- You will ensure that all business service level agreements relating to master data are adhered to and where this is not possible, that expectations are positively managed with stakeholders.
- You will perform regular master data random audits to ensure validity of data.
- You will perform control checks as and when requested by the internal audit/controls team.
- You will run regular master data update reports to underpin good control processes.
- You will support continuous improvements in ways of working for the team and suggest improvements to business and data processes.

**Other activities**
- Attend regular team meetings.
- Support other team members with tasks and knowledge, as required.
- Build collaborative working relationships with other teams.
- Ensure any risks and issues are communicated timely to your manager.

**Knowledge and Skills required**
- Highly organised individual, able to prioritise multiple tasks and deliver to service levels.
- Meticulous attention to detail, quality and accuracy.
- Good knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics accounting systems preferable.
- High personal levels of motivation and delivery orientated focus.
- Ability to interact with and develop working relationships internally.

**You can look forward to a competitive salary, pension scheme, and further benefits**:

- Life Assurance Scheme
- Personal Income Protection
- Private Medical
- Discounted gym membership
- Wellness advice and support
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Priority Pass Membership (Collinson Exclusive)
- Travel Insurance (Collinson Exclusive)
- Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success._
- We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Act smarter, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do inte