Company Description
Trainline is an innovative, tech business with a mission to bring together the world’s rail, coach and other travel services into one simple experience. We aim to make travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices. We’re hugely proud to be the world’s leading independent rail and coach travel platform and rank among the highest-rated travel and ticketing apps globally. Today, we offer our customers travel to thousands of destinations in and across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That’s more than £4.3 billion in ticket sales annually, and over 100 million visits to our apps and websites each month. In another major milestone, Trainline listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2019 and is now part of the FTSE 250.
Our culture is central to our success. We’re driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we’re always working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It’s this sense of pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique – we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will change travel for the better.
Job Description
As the Data Quality Manager, you will manage a team of two, reporting into the Head of Finance BI Reporting and Controls. The team is laser focused on ensuring we have high levels of data quality, adding value by improving confidence in data across the business and acting as a partner to the Finance team.
This is a truly career defining role for someone passionate about changing the way we think about data looking for an opportunity to join a highly rated team. We’ll provide you with ample opportunity to make transformational changes to the way we work, as you play your part in disrupting and defining a product that will change the way people travel and impacting millions of people every day.
Our ever-expanding business is constantly changing as we add new revenue streams and suppliers all the time, so you will be seeking opportunities to use Amazon S3 to develop relevant data controls that are as automated possible whilst remaining easy to maintain.
On a typical day, you may be supporting the team through the month end close, using your SQL skills to help troubleshoot and quantify problems, or you may be working with product and data teams to understand project delivery and identify areas for future process improvement.
A core function of the Data Quality Manager is to ensure the relevant controls are in place to mitigate risk against financial losses, and to provide the business with confidence that the data is complete and accurate.
Responsibilities
Managing and developing a small teamBe responsible for a suite of automated data controls, ensuring they remain relevant in a constantly evolving business.Ensure controls are monitored daily, and exceptions are managed in a timely manner which mitigate any impact on financial processes. This includes working with external parties to ensure that we settle correctly for every transaction.Demonstrate data quality by developing compelling and interactive visualisations and dashboards using Tableau.Work closely with product and data teams to understand system developments, make impact assessments, and deliver quality requirements.
Qualifications
Excellent SQL skills, and experience of working with multiple data sourcesHave experience of data controls, or testing methodologies which can be embedded within the team, or a proven track record in developing and enhancing existing processesComfortable working in a high transactional volume, multi-currency and multinational environmentAn inquisitive and analytical mindset, able to quickly grasp the fundamentals of complex systems and processes, explaining and presenting them to others is an easy to understand wayAble to work in a fast-paced environment and to re-prioritise in line with changing business needsThe ability to influence stakeholders through great communication and relationship development skillsExpertise in Tableau visualisation and dashboard design (desirable)
Additional Information
We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.
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