Senior Operations Analyst

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AMECO is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Operations Analyst to join our team. This position plays a critical role in conducting advanced project accounting activities and providing financial expertise for small and medium-sized projects.

The Senior Operations Analyst conducts work directly related to management or general business operations within the organization. This work requires advanced knowledge, gained through specialized instruction, experience, and expertise. The position involves exercising discretion and independent judgment on significant matters.

This position performs highly complex project accounting activities, including reviewing client contracts, ensuring the accuracy of project activities, and recommending changes in financial procedures. This role serves as the Project Business Services (PBS) lead for assigned projects and supervises other PBS analysts.

Summary

This position conducts work directly with executives, cross-functional business leaders, and operational personnel to supply required business analytics tools and reporting to drive growth and meet strategic objectives. They will work to build and maintain reporting systems (like PowerBI and OneStream) that enable efficient analysis of past operational performance to predict future actions. Other primary functions will include collaboration with IT to ensure appropriate data is warehoused for use in business intelligence dashboards, the creation of regular forecasts, the preparation and reviewing of operational reports, and participation in budgeting processes across the organization. The work requires advanced knowledge gained from a prolonged course of specialized instruction, experience, and expertise. The position includes work requiring the consistent exercise of discretion and independent judgment with respect to matters of significance.

Principal Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform supply chain forecasting, reporting, and operational metrics tracking
• Analyze operational data and create models to aid informed decisions
• Analyze and apply the activities being performed with respect to engineering and construction accounting methodology and company practices
• Supervise the required tasks and follow established written procedures and techniques to accomplish activities
• Review and analyze project financial performance and assist project management in understanding and communicating financial issues and performance
• Analyze past results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements
• Evaluate operational performance by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts
• Provide analysis of trends versus forecasts, recommending actions for optimization
• Recommend actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses; study proposed changes in methods and materials
• Identify and drive process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports and tools
• Increase productivity by developing automated reporting/forecasting tools
• Grow operational performance through analysis of results, forecasts, variances and trends
• Create recommendations to be presented to management and executives
• Reconcile existing transactions through cross-referencing of incoming and outgoing data
• Maintain up-to-date technical knowledge of operational instruments, market conditions, and trends
• Sustain proficiency in Microsoft Excel, and data query/database management tools (Access, PowerBI, and Dynamics CRM)
• Interface with other groups inside and outside the organization, senior management, other locations, clients, and auditors
• Analyze foreign exchange transactions and accounting matters for projects executed across multiple geographies
• Analyze and make independent recommendations regarding solutions to problems with varying complexity in accordance with organization and/or project objectives and guidelines
• Organize and prioritize a variety of projects and multiple tasks in an effective and timely manner, set priorities, and meet deadlines
• Plan and organize your own work assignments, as well as carry out tasks from management staff

Typical Minimum Qualifications - Related Education, Experience & Skills

• Accredited four (4) year degree in IT, Business, or a related field
• 5+ years of business operations or other relevant experience
• High proficiency in data modeling techniques
• Strong fluency with excel formulas and functions
• Strong quantitative, analytical competency and data gathering skills
• Good business acumen
• Proven work experience with a quantitatively heavy role
• Advanced knowledge of Excel, PowerBI, and/or Tableau, database programs and ERP systems
• Ability to communicate effectively with audiences that include but are not limited to management, coworkers, clients, vendors, contractors, and visitors
• Job related technical knowledge necessary to complete the job
• Ability to learn and apply knowledge of applicable local, state/province, and federal/ statutes and guidelines
• Ability to attend to detail and work in a time-conscious and time-effective manner

Working Conditions

• Generally favorable indoor office workspace, and/or;
• Various levels of environmental conditions include but not limited to project worksites and vendor/client facilities which may have temporary office space, moving mechanical parts and vibration; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles and extreme temperatures and high noise levels