Business Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain communication with various facilities engineers and stakeholders.
• Work closely with the Project Manager to provide analytical insights on the schedule and cost to enable pro-active decision making.
• Accountable for maintaining updates and accuracy of project execution data across multiple projects.
• Facilitate meetings for planning, budgeting and project controls decision making.
• Work with Project Managers to align data throughout various tools, including SharePoint, Excel, OneNote, etc.
• Use excel to present data in various ways in order to visualize constraints and drive decisions.
• Assures project data and tools are compliant with the organizations best practices and value adding processes.
• Develops reports to track and communicate project progress based on agreed cadence including value, budget and resource load.
• Analyze at risk and lagging projects, highlighting to FE Team Leads the impacts.
• Collaborates with the Project Manager and Team Leads on solutions.
• Analyze cost over/under-runs highlighting to the Project Manager and Team Leads the impact to the budget.
• Establish and document changes throughout process. Attend various meetings and adjust data as necessary.

Skills:

• Verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, customer service, interpersonal skills, self-sufficient.
• Ability to work independently and manage one's time.
• Knowledge of project management process and tools, including cost, schedule and resource allocation.
• Must have strong Excel skills: ability to develop Excel trends and pivot tables. Previous experience with computer applications, such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint SharePoint.
• Able to work across multiple teams with different communication styles. Strong organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to facilitate meetings.
• Preference to having knowledge in the following financial project control areas: forecasting, budgeting, planning, estimating and cost analysis.
• Ability to understand the project scope, execution methodology and its relationship to the value drivers.