Company Overview
Established in 1986, Ground Effects has grown to become a multi-faceted supplier of interior and exterior accessory components for the automotive industry. We are headquartered in Windsor, Ontario.
At GFX, we have created a culture that values long-standing employees and excellence in everything we do. Employees can expect to be a part of a great team that values safety and quality.
Summary
Ground Effects is currently searching for a Senior Analyst, Master Data to support our team in Windsor, Ontario. The Senior Analyst, Master Data is the owner of how Ground Effects Ltd.’s operations are represented in its systems — the steward who sets and enforces the guardrails where Engineering, Operations, Finance, Accounting, and Quality meet. Each of these functions creates, consumes, and depends on shared master data, and their needs often pull in different directions; this role owns the standards, rules, and controls that reconcile them, so that one function’s data does not break another’s. Rather than personally performing every data task, the incumbent governs the master data structures, configurations, and rules that live in Epicor, Dayforce, and the connected business-systems stack — translating how parts are made, costed, bought, sold, and staffed across Ground Effects’ plant sites into a single, trusted source the whole organization can rely on. Critically, this is a stewardship role built on prevention: the owner designs and maintains the controls that keep bad data out of Ground Effects’ systems in the first place — validation rules, required fields, approval workflows, and process guardrails that catch problems at the point of entry rather than after they have polluted reporting and transactions downstream. The best outcome of this role is the error that never happens.
Responsibilities
- Own the create, change, and deactivate lifecycle for master data across Epicor and connected business systems — including item/part, BOM and routing, customer, supplier, pricing, and GL/chart-of-accounts records — across all Ground Effects plant sites.
- Maintain the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of master data, including site-specific attributes (costing, pricing, sourcing), so that downstream transactions, costing, and reporting can be trusted.
- Act as the gatekeeper for data entering Ground Effects systems — design, configure, and maintain the validation rules, required-field enforcement, naming and formatting standards, and approval workflows that stop bad data at the point of entry.
- Build and maintain system-level controls (e.g., Epicor BPMs/data directives, Dayforce form and assignment rules) that prevent incomplete or non-conforming records from being saved.
- Treat recurring data issues as process defects — investigate root cause and engineer the control that closes the gap, rather than repeatedly cleaning up the same errors after the fact.
- Partner with Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, and HR to understand how work actually gets done, then translate those processes into the master data structures and system configuration that represent them accurately.
- Serve as the interpreter between business users who own the process and technical/vendor teams who configure the system — converting operational requirements into actionable system design, and system constraints into plain business language.
- Configure and support Epicor and connected business systems in the master data and process domains — part/BOM setup, costing methods, pricing, customer/supplier configuration, and the workflows and rules that govern them.
- Troubleshoot data and configuration issues raised by business users; analyze root cause across both process and system, and implement durable fixes rather than one-off corrections.
- Serve as a key contributor to the Epicor T10 to Kinetic migration — leading master data cleanup, mapping, deduplication, conversion-template preparation, load validation, and reconciliation between legacy and target environments.
- Configure the data standards and preventive controls in the new environment so that data quality is built in at go-live rather than remediated afterward.
- Maintain HRIS master data structures in Dayforce — job and position records, organizational and cost-center alignment, and GL coding rules — ensuring they reflect Ground Effects’ multi-site org and feed finance and reporting accurately.
- Partner with HR and Finance to enforce data standards and overrides (e.g., corporate cost-center employees located at plant sites) so that headcount, labor, and cost data are correct at the source.
- Safeguard master data consistency across integrated systems — EDI (TrueCommerce), FP&A and BI tools (DataRails, Power BI), and Dayforce-to-Epicor flows — so the source stays clean and everything downstream stays trustworthy.
- Validate that data feeding KPI, financial, and operational reporting is mapped correctly and reconciles to the system of record; investigate and resolve discrepancies.
- Support integration design and field mapping with technical teams and vendors, ensuring master data definitions remain aligned end to end.
- Establish, document, and continuously improve master data standards, naming conventions, governance policies, ownership matrices, and change-control procedures across all data domains.
- Maintain clear, current documentation of data structures, configurations, controls, and processes so that knowledge is not locked in one person’s head.
- Define and report data quality metrics (completeness, accuracy, duplication, staleness) and drive remediation and prevention against them.
- Train and support end users and data approvers on master data standards, system processes, and the controls that protect data quality — and on why those controls exist.
- Partner across Finance, IT, Operations, and HR to drive adoption of governance standards and embed sustainable, well-documented data practices.
- Act as a subject-matter resource on master data and business-process questions, supporting month-end close, costing, and reporting by ensuring the underlying data holds up.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business, Finance, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a related field. Relevant certifications an asset (e.g., business analysis (CBAP), data management (CDMP), or ERP/Epicor-Kinetic credentials)
- 3+ years in a master data, business systems analyst, ERP, or data governance role, including hands-on work mapping business processes to system structures. Direct experience with one or more of our core platforms is strongly preferred: Epicor (ERP) and Dayforce (HCM/payroll); Microsoft 365 and BI/FP&A tooling (Power BI, DataRails) an asset. Demonstrated experience designing or enforcing data quality controls/validation is required. ERP implementation or data-migration experience and a manufacturing or multi-site environment are strongly preferred.
- The following working conditions are present or expected on a daily basis:
- Typical office environment.
- Periodic presence on the plant floor and across company sites for data gathering, process mapping, and validation.
- Limited exposure to weather elements, chemicals, robotics, industrial and automotive vehicles including electrical components.
- Ability to lift up to 50lbs with limited accommodations and flexible working positions.
- Occasional travel between company sites and to vendor or implementation-partner locations.
- Must comply with all company policies, procedures, and work instructions.
- Personal protective equipment must be worn at all times while on the production floor.
Are you ready to COME GROW WITH US?!
Apply today! For more information, please visit our website at www.gfxltd.com
Only the selected candidates will receive a response. Thank you for your interest in our organization!
Ground Effects Ltd. is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Pay: $85,000.00-$106,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
