Business Analyst | Industrial Engineer

General Description

• Analyze business results and processes to support Division’s goals and achievements.  Manage all aspects of Division’s projects coordination and completion with accountability and according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Analyze monthly costs and operational expenses and revenues against prior year and budget, providing explanations and business solutions to help mitigate risks.
• Manage and analyze statistical data to provide accurate strategic recommendations to Division Manager that enable the Division to achieve its goals. 
• Provide support to prepare financial results, forecast and incentive recommendations.
• Assist in annual Planning process to align Division’s strategic projects with Budget recommendations.
• Consolidate information and create dashboards for use in management decision making.
• Work as a liaison among stakeholders, including the office of Commercial Group, in order to analyze, communicate and validate requirements and functional specifications for changes to business processes and applications to ensure optimal operational performance.
• Determine and prioritize projects that support the Division to achieve its goals tied to operational excellence.
• Review project proposal or plan to establish time frame, procedures for accomplishing project, staffing requirements, funding limitations and allocation of available resources to various phases of project.
• Establish work plan, reviews status reports, prepare projects reports for management and accountable for project results.
• Support Division office management such as information systems, inventory, equipment, real estate, internal procedures audits, vacation schedules, among others.
• Provide support in the preparation and monitoring of the Division employees’ annual goals, scorecards, and incentives.
• Coordinate the maintenance and implementation of the Division’s Business Contingency Plan, including communication to all Division employees of the Plan and any modification to it.
• Identify over/under-budget areas of opportunity.
• Manage reports and variance explanations to areas according to requests.
• Perform investigations into requested invoices from the management team.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This Job has no supervisory responsibilities but in special circumstances may lead the work of others.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration with a major in Accounting, Finance, Statistics; Industrial Engineering or related field.

Experience

• At least two years related experience in one of the following: business analysis, project management, budgeting process and monitoring, profitability, or data management.

Certifications / Licenses (Nice to have)

Other Qualifications

• Ability to define, aggregate and analyze business results for management decision making.
• Strong analytical skills required to translate conceptual thinking into project definitions and requirements.  Collects, research and combined required data with accuracy and commitment to details.
• Detail-oriented, organized, exceptional critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Process improvements oriented.
• Self-driven, agile, and able to work independently and on multiple engagements simultaneously.
• Creative thinker and an outstanding storyteller.
• Strong work ethic and a team-player attitude with a deep commitment to strong business results.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Spanish.
• Ability to present and interact with all levels of management including executive leadership.
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office applications such as Word, Excel, Power Point and Access.
• Expertise using data managing tools such as Excel, Power Pivot, SAS, Cognos, among others.  
• Proven experience with Power BI and Dashboards.
• Ability to work under pressure, multitasking and minimal supervision.
• Self-starter and able to independently move tasks or projects forward and meet deadlines.
• Maintain confidentiality of sensitive information.

Values

Additional Requirements

The information provided here is only a general guide as to the nature of the position and does not constitute an exact description of the goals, tasks, duties and responsibilities of the position. The specific details of each position are described in the employee’s performance evaluation.