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AndrewNR

AndrewNR

AndrewNR

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Been sent a job by an agency with title "Master Data Controller".

Anyone here able to shed light on what this will entail please? Not sure if It interests me enough to accept going for an interview. I'm finishing my computing degree this year and I am AAT qualified. Ideally I want to get into programming (OO, but jobs are rare for graduates around here) or a better accountancy job than my current one.

Is it a case of collating, manipulating and analysing data? Looks like it's Excel based. Pay is 20-25k, but it was advertised before (a month ago after I looked in to it) at 28k.

Just looks like a job that merges IT and accounts but doesn't really offer a definite route for progression.

Thanks.
 
You'd be 'The Excel Guy'

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Note - I used to work in the online marketing/ecommerce recruitment world and actually a role like this would be an essential step to lead on to other companies such as Amazon who pretty much only want Excel experts. I'd recommend going for the interview if they like your CV, see what it's about and whether you'd enjoy doing it.
 
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Master Data Controller?

Probably a ****ing tea boy with the amount of stupid names for jobs people are coming up with nowadays. I say flick them the v's and tell them to **** off and come back with a proper name for it - you don't want to work for a company like that.
 
I can't work out what they mean by "master". Traditionally this would mean "very good at", but they're offering 20k for the position, which would correlate with "crap at".

Lots of mentions of data input. I'm sure that'll be loads of fun.
 
JonJ678 said:
I can't work out what they mean by "master". Traditionally this would mean "very good at", but they're offering 20k for the position, which would correlate with "crap at".

Lots of mentions of data input. I'm sure that'll be loads of fun.
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Aye, for 20k I'd rather eat my own eyes, but for 25k+ it's more appealing.
 
In HP our data controllers were defined as:-

"a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed, stored, archived and deleted"

Master data controller implies you would be the person all the other data controllers report to. How many employees does the company have?

Commonly, data controllers are there to make sure an organisations data protection obligations are met. £20k sounds on the low side for the senior data controller as there is quite a bit of responsibility and accountability associated with the role - unless it's just a tiny company.

It'll be a tedious, mind numbing and boring role but could lead on to other more interesting areas - such as security control.
 
amigafan2003 said:
In HP our data controllers were defined as:-

"a person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed, stored, archived and deleted"

Master data controller implies you would be the person all the other data controllers report to. How many employees does the company have?

Commonly, data controllers are there to make sure an organisations data protection obligations are met. £20k sounds on the low side for the senior data controller as there is quite a bit of responsibility and accountability associated with the role - unless it's just a tiny company.

It'll be a tedious, mind numbing and boring role but could lead on to other more interesting areas - such as security control.
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Thanks. 24,000 employees and sales over £3,000,000,000.
So yes, £20k is very low, but at 28k maybe it's about right. Going to think about it and get back to them tomorrow.

Your HP definition sums up exactly what I thought it would be, as you eluded to; boring.
 
AndrewNR said:
... I'm finishing my computing degree this year and I am AAT qualified. Ideally I want to get into programming (OO, but jobs are rare for graduates around here) or a better accountancy job than my current one.
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I used to live in Norfolk and was able to find some good graduate programming jobs near/in Norwich. Where do you live in Norfolk?
 
jon86 said:
I used to live in Norfolk and was able to find some good graduate programming jobs near/in Norwich. Where do you live in Norfolk?
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I live in Attleborough. So about 15 minutes from Norwich.

Cambridge seems to be the hotspot around here [for Java graduate jobs] but it's an hour away on a good day, probably 1 hour 30 minutes with traffic. Further afield it's Northampton and then obviously London but I don't think I could handle the 2 hours plus/hassle of train/tube hopping to work in London. The salaries don't appear to be much greater than Cambridge either.

What sites did you used to look at? I started just using Reed, but now I just use Indeed as although its search function is useless it appears to list pretty much all jobs.
 
TBH a data controller isn't really an IT role - so bear that in mind - i.e. do you want to be an IT guy or a business process guy.

Most of the data controllers I've known are business process grounded and zero IT experience, even though the data controller roles are prevalent in IT organisations.
 
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i used to work for Tribal, a company that regularly hires graduate software developers. It has several offices, and one is based in Norwich, which is where I worked for about six years after leaving university. As I understand, it has graduate developer positions available and their graduate developer programme has got a lot better recently. It pays more than I was paid and the salary increases a lot faster. It's a good start into development (especially in this area of the country) and you'd end up on a higher salary than the numbers you've quoted in the thread, but it would pay less than that for a while.

The quickest, easiest and most direct way to get a job at Tribal is to go direct. I know several senior people who I could put you in contact with. Send me a trust message if you're interested to find out more.
 
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