Associate Director SAP, Master Data: RTR & STP

About the Role

The Master Data Steward, Record to Report (RTR) and Source to Pay (STP) is responsible for managing and maintaining the quality and integrity of the master data in S4/HANA and Ariba to support all RTR and STP operations, including all aspects of master data for Supplier Master, PIRs, Source List, Bank Details, Chart of Accounts, and WBS codes. The SAP Master Data Steward RTR and STP will work closely with business users, data analysts, and IT teams to ensure that the S4 and Ariba master data is accurate, consistent, and compliant with the business rules and standards.

The SAP Master Data Steward will also perform data cleansing, validation, enrichment, and migration activities, as well as provide training and support to the end users.

• Reviews, performs impact assessments, and approves master data requests from business users ensuring that they meet business rules, data quality, and governance standards.
• Monitor and analyze master data issues and errors and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Collaborate with Process Leads to design, document, implement, and improve business/data quality rules and KPIs, standards, workflows, and reports.
• Provide training and guidance to Data Specialists and end users on the master data policies, procedures, and best practices.
• Perform data analysis to identify continuous improvement opportunities that drive business efficiency through master data.
• Reports and manages issues, risks, and scope of impact. Identifies and works to prepare business cases for identified gaps and improvements.
• Acts as a change champion for transformation and operational activities both functionally and cross functionally.
• Helps develop and implement processes for enabling the simplification and standardization of data practices in line with the SAP first and fit standard design philosophies.
• Build partnerships through collaboration with global, functional, and regional teams on operational and planning initiatives.
• Partners with functional management to assess and manage change impact to data quality, operations, and processes.
• Develops and manages robust methodologies to maintain and report consistency and quality of master and transactional global business data within existing Data Quality tools.
• Collaborates the development of internal and external data audit processes and executes those processes within their data domain to ensure data attributes and value standards are correctly reflected in the system.
• Assess master data (accuracy, availability) and format requirements needed to support business processes and integrations with boundary applications.
• Manages and chairs data domain specific governance user meetings (L1) to facilitate decision making, process changes, and bi‑directional communication.
• Participates in Data Core Team governance (L2) by representing their data domain and the needs of their stakeholders.
• Partners with other Data Stewards to ensure global and cross‑functional process alignment.

• Define critical data elements, quality dimensions, and acceptance criteria for the RTR and STP data; maintain traceability to business capability, control, and regulation.
• Maintain a central rules catalog with ownership, lineage, coverage (% of fields controlled), and effectiveness (defect leakage, rule pass rate).
• Embed rules into both preventive controls (form/UI validation, workflow) and detective controls (DQM profiling/monitoring) with automated alerts.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Strong knowledge of SAP master data objects, structures, and processes, especially in the areas of Accounting, Contracting, and Procurement functions.
• Proficient in SAP master data tools, such as LSMW, BAPI, IDOC, MDG, etc.
• Excellent data analysis and problem‑solving skills, with attention to detail and accuracy.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively and effectively with cross‑functional teams and stakeholders.
• Self‑motivated, proactive, and adaptable to changing…