
10,000+ employees
Founded 1996
📦 Logistics
✈️ Travel
🚗 Transport
Logistics • Travel • Transport
Swissport is a global leader in airport ground services and air cargo handling, operating in 286 airports and 115 air cargo centers across 44 countries on six continents. With approximately 60,000 employees, Swissport is dedicated to providing exceptional passenger and baggage services as well as cargo handling solutions, contributing to a positive travel experience. The company emphasizes career development and offers various roles in customer service and operational support within the aviation sector.
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10,000+ employees
Founded 1996
📦 Logistics
✈️ Travel
🚗 Transport
Logistics • Travel • Transport
Swissport is a global leader in airport ground services and air cargo handling, operating in 286 airports and 115 air cargo centers across 44 countries on six continents. With approximately 60,000 employees, Swissport is dedicated to providing exceptional passenger and baggage services as well as cargo handling solutions, contributing to a positive travel experience. The company emphasizes career development and offers various roles in customer service and operational support within the aviation sector.
• Drive the global MDM vision and roadmap in alignment with Finance Transformation, the Target Operating Model and Finance Shared Services • Establish and own the MDM governance framework, including data ownership, stewardship, decision rights and a data council • Define global master data standards, templates, policies, naming conventions, mandatory attributes, approval workflows, segregation of duties and lifecycle rules • Define risk indicators and controls and oversee audit and regulatory compliance • Own standardized end-to-end master data creation, change, extension and retirement processes across Record-to-Report, Plan-to-Perform, Procure-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash • Define and own the global S/4HANA master data model and maintain one source of truth across connected applications • Lead Fit-to-Standard for master data, approving deviations and validating local requirements while protecting the global core • Lead the MDM workstream in the SAP S/4HANA public cloud implementation program • Translate data requirements into IT requirements and align tooling, including SAP Master Data Governance, workflow and data quality solutions • Confirm master data readiness before each go-live and assess twice-yearly SAP releases • Own the data migration strategy, including cleansing, mapping, mock migrations and cut-over validation • Act as global expert and main contact during country and cluster roll-outs • Drive change management, adoption and role-based training for requesters, approvers and data stewards • Build a global data steward community • Design and set up MDM Shared Services, define task allocation and transfer local maintenance to the center • Define data quality and service KPIs, run performance reviews and lead continuous improvement focused on automation, efficiency and standardization
• University Degree in Business Administration, Finance, Information Management or related field • Minimum 7 years in master data management, finance systems or process management • Strong exposure to Finance and Accounting • Deep understanding of finance and enterprise master data objects, including Chart of Accounts, cost and profit centers, business partners and fixed assets • Proven SAP S/4HANA implementation experience • Deep knowledge of master data structures, organizational units, business partner concept, SAP Master Data Governance, Migration Cockpit and SAP Best Practices • Track record in large-scale SAP programs, including global data model design, data cleansing and migration, multi-country roll-outs and standardized implementations • Experience with Shared Services concepts and implementation, particularly centralized master data maintenance • Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to defend the global data model against local deviations • Excellent project management skills in global matrix structures • Strong analytical, data quality and process optimization skills • Hands-on, results-driven approach with learning agility and ability to challenge the status quo • Excellent communication skills with high proficiency in English • Ability to lead, mentor and align data owners and stewards across complex Finance and business domains • Willingness to travel globally up to 30%
• Global travel opportunity, with willingness to travel globally up to 30% stated as part of the role • Participation in Swissport’s global, multinational work environment • Professional development through leading global SAP S/4HANA implementation, transformation, governance and shared services initiatives
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