Data Sme

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omni-channel retailer in the sports, fashion, and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

**Data SME**:
**Responsible to**:
European HRIS Data Lead

**Department**:
People Technology

**Location**:
Bury, UK with travel to EU countries where required

**Hours**:
Full time 40 Hours

Advance the People Technology team by championing Data as part of world-wide Human Resource Information System programme, enabling the development and deployment of a single HRIS solution, aimed at positioning JD as an employer of choice.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing team of multi-skilled, adaptable data specialists. We are looking for a Data Subject Matter Expert with knowledge of at least one of our main workstreams: Data Transformation, System Integration, Reporting and Analytics, along with a passion for learning new skills in this rapidly evolving workspace.

The JD People team puts the colleague at the heart of what we do to develop a level of service that emulates the JD brand and maximises colleague experience.

**Key Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Engaging in effective conversations around requirements and asking the right questions to scope and solve the requests
- Actively participate in knowledge transfer from vendor implementation specialists to ensure self-sufficiency and production readiness for support of the HRIS
- Undertake transformation analysis with data from multiple systems, including data rationalisation and mapping
- Prepare transformation utilities, dress rehearsal protocols, key process documentation and cut over activity planning support
- Identify potential risks and issues related to data conversion and system integration, working to avoid the risks and mitigate issues
- Identify data-related errors and resolve issues
- Partner with other technology groups (e.g., IT, Operations and Reward) to understand requirements to integrate systems and ensure effective deployment
- Support the end-to-end deployment (design, build, test) and ongoing maintenance of data flows across a wide array of functional areas
- Provide technical advice regarding data conversion, integration solution options, report building, analytics and data security
- Assist with the design and build of scalable monitoring operations for error handling and communication of data flow failures and resolution
- Recommend and implement policies/standards and offer technical solutions to gain process efficiency and improve data integrity
- Manage and meet multiple project deadlines and deliverables
- Support the Data Strategy in all aspects of your work

**Essential Skills/Experience/Knowledge**
- Ability to consider and evaluate solutions to problems under own initiative
- Experience of working with internal and external clients to advise on best working practice
- Elevated level of attention to detail with strong administrative and organisational skills and be able to prioritise your workload to meet strict deadlines
- Be aware of GDPR and be able to act with absolute discretion and confidentiality
- Be data curious, aware of how to use data effectively and aware of new/emerging trends in the data analytics space
- Ensure high data quality through regular quality checks
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel (VBA advantageous)
- Strong team player with ability to self-motivate and motivate others
- Confident and courteous in dealing with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong communication skills both written and oral

**Optional Skills/Experience/Knowledge**
- Experience with HCM solutions in a SaaS environment across multiple territories
- Ability to analyse complex data requirements with a view to the development of data conversion or providing analytic information
- Ability to create and maintain client ready data conversion requirements documents
- Experience in developing frameworks for data management and warehousing
- Gather and analyse data to guide decision making and improve performance
- Knowledge of SQL
- Exposure to reporting/analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, OBIEE, Looker)
- Understanding of broad data analytics methodologies; data storytelling; data products
- Awareness of version control concepts

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