Data Migration Specialist
🔹 Finance Data Quality & Migration Lead
📍 Hybrid – 3 days per week in the office
💼 Contract – Outside IR35
💷 Rate – Circa £550 per day
🎬 Industry – Media (creative, collaborative office environment)
🚀 Role Overview
As part of a major finance transformation within the media industry , this organisation is implementing a new finance ERP platform, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central . This role will take full ownership of finance data quality and migration readiness , ensuring that 20 years of legacy finance data is assessed, cleansed, governed, and successfully migrated.
You’ll act as the single point of accountability for finance data quality , working closely with finance stakeholders and system implementation partners in a lean BAU environment. The role focuses on critical finance data domains including Accounts Payable, invoices, suppliers, customers, and finance master data .
Prior Business Central experience is not essential — strong finance ERP data expertise is key.
🧩 Key Responsibilities
Finance Data Quality & Governance
- Act as Data Quality Lead across core finance domains (AP, invoices, suppliers, customers, chart of accounts)
- Profile and assess 20 years of legacy finance data, identifying integrity issues
- Define and enforce data quality standards, validation rules, and reconciliation controls
- Lead data cleansing, remediation, and rationalisation activities
- Ensure finance data supports operational, reporting, and compliance requirements
Data Migration & Readiness
- Own finance data readiness for ERP implementation and migration cycles
- Design and manage data staging environments
- Hands-on SQL Server extraction, validation, and reconciliation
- Manage migration cycles, version control, and finance sign-off
- Deliver migrations pragmatically without a dedicated migration tool
Finance Systems & Transformation
- Support the implementation of a new finance ERP system
- Partner with AP, AR, and GL stakeholders
- Balance transformation delivery alongside BAU constraints
Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the bridge between finance and technical teams
- Lead data validation and sign-off sessions
- Clearly communicate data risks and data quality outcomes
🛠 Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience in finance data quality, migration, or finance systems roles
- Hands-on experience with AP, invoice, supplier, customer, and master data
- Strong understanding of finance ERP data models and processes
- Hands-on SQL Server experience
- Experience working with large, complex legacy finance datasets
- Comfortable operating independently with end-to-end ownership
Desirable
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central experience
- Finance transformation background
- Experience working in media or creative environments
👤 Who This Role Is For
Ideal for a senior contract finance data professional who wants:
- Clear ownership of finance data quality
- Hands-on delivery rather than large-team management
- A visible role in a high-impact media finance transformation