Award of SSP - Data Lead

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The Scottish Government is delivering a flagship change programme to improve the performance and efficiency of how corporate shared services are provided to core Scottish Government and other public bodies in Scotland. With significant multi-year investment in technology planned, the corporate Shared Services Programme (SSP) will deliver the implementation of Oracle Fusion Cloud, a modular based cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution at an overall cost of around £20m. The SSP will deploy the solutions and platforms required to enable operational and cultural change to meet user needs and provide a better customer experience. The scope of the programme is across HR, Finance, (RTR, EPM, PTP & OTC) for core organisations and budgeting/forecasting and financial consolidation across the wider public sector. Our initial ambition is to replace old on premise customised technology to new cloud based integrated ERP / EPM Solutions, to allow the credible running of modern finance function with robust data structures and the basics of a customer and service driven management culture. The Programme will also provide a foundation for further growth to support the government’s wider vision for shared services and the ability to be a data driven organisation. This role is to lead the important Data preparation work ahead of the launch of the new systems. Main Duties 1. Leading management of data sets, updates and amendments to vendor records on the Scottish Government Oracle finance system. 2. Tracking progress of deliverables to report to the Purchase to Pay (PTP) Workstream Lead. Responding to supplier amendment enquiries either by e-mail or telephone communications. 3. Maintain the master supplier contact list (MS Excel) which forms the basis of weekly status reports. 4. Ad-hoc duties as directed by the PTP Workstream Lead.