Senior Data Quality Assurance Analyst, Lisbon Lisboa

Senior Data Quality Assurance Analyst, Lisbon
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Job Title: Senior Data Quality Assurance Analyst

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Introduction to Role:

Join our Global Business Services (GBS) Data Assurance team at Astra
Zeneca, a place built on innovation and creativity. We are looking for a Senior Data Quality Assurance Analyst who will play a crucial role in ensuring that our master, reference, and transactional data is fit for purpose. This role is pivotal in identifying, investigating, and resolving data issues affecting planning, reporting, and other Finance processes.

Accountabilities:

As a Senior Data Quality Assurance Analyst, you will be responsible for:

1. Investigating data quality issues.
2. Defining manual adjustments to temporarily correct
   - critical issues.
3. Working with users, data stewards, and operations teams to ensure fixes are applied correctly.
4. Contributing to improvements in tools, methods, processes, documentation, and controls within the team.
5. Using data quality reporting tools, system reconciliations, and direct data analysis to proactively identify potential data issues for resolution.

Minimum Requirements:

To be successful in this role, you should have:

1. Experience of working with financial data and systems, preferably SAP FICO.
2. A background in data analysis and issue investigation in a complex data and system environment.
3. Experience in the maintenance and use of common financial data (cost centres, profit centres, chart of accounts, transactional postings).
4. Good understanding of financial processes.
5. Good understanding of data quality and data management principles.
6. A proactive, analytical, and investigative mindset.
7. Proficiency in Office applications (Word, Excel, Power
   Point).
8. Excellent attention to detail.
9. Good written and verbal communication skills.
10. An accounting background.
11. Experience of working in a complex global organisation.
12. Pharmaceutical business awareness/business domain knowledge.
13. Experience using data quality profiling and monitoring tools.
14. Experience in querying data using SQL.
15. Experience creating reports.
16. Experience supporting Finance
    - end processes, reporting, and planning.

Working Environment:

When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire
- changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform we need to connect, work at pace, and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn't mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Our Commitment:

At Astra
Zeneca, we’re dedicated to being a Great Place to Work. Where you are empowered to push the boundaries of science and challenge convention. To embrace differences and take bold actions to drive the change needed to meet global healthcare and sustainability challenges. There is no better place to make a difference in medicine, patients, and society. An inclusive culture where you will connect different thinking to generate new and valuable opportunities. Where you will find a commitment to lifelong learning, growth, and development for all.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us in our mission to push the boundaries of science to deliver
- changing medicines!