Charlotte, NC, US
Position Title: Procurement Business Analyst
Come Build Your Career at Aecon!
Aecon delivers some of the most complex and impactful infrastructure projects — from transformative transportation networks to critical energy, industrial and nuclear programs. The projects we build connect communities and power future generations. With deep roots in North America and a strong footprint internationally, Aecon brings global expertise and proudly serves public and private sector clients through its Construction and Concessions segment.
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- Safety Always. Our number one core value. The safety of our people, projects, partners, and stakeholders is our priority focus – today and always.
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- Ensure you and your family receive the services and benefits needed to support your mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
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Our success is built on the passion, expertise, and dedication of our people. Together, we embrace strong execution, innovation, and continuous improvement — values that come to life through the unique talents and collaborative spirit of every team member. If you’re inspired to make a difference through future-building projects, join our best-in-class team.
- Own and continuously improve executive-ready EPC procurement dashboards, scorecards, and reporting in Power BI and Excel, with clear definitions, accountable data owners, and documented refresh cycles.
- Analyze spend, commitments, purchase orders, invoices, vendors, funding, periods of performance, cycle times, and closeout status to identify leakage, bottlenecks, savings opportunities, and cost or schedule exposure.
- Provide recurring operating reviews and decision-focused analysis for Procurement Leadership, EPC project teams, Finance, Accounts Payable, Commercial, and executive stakeholders.
- Establish and maintain a governed KPI framework covering sourcing pipeline, purchase-order cycle time, commitment coverage, invoice exceptions, vendor performance, funding utilization, open obligations, and closeout readiness.
- Partner with stakeholders to define, validate, prioritize, and document business requirements, reporting needs, control gaps, and improvement opportunities across the EPC procure-to-pay lifecycle.
- Translate business needs into practical data models, dashboards, process maps, controls, workflows, and operating procedures with clear ownership and acceptance criteria.
- Perform root-cause and exception analysis; quantify business impact; and recommend corrective actions for procurement, invoice, vendor, funding, data-quality, and operational issues.
- Support future-state process design, procurement transformation, change adoption, governance, audit readiness, corrective-action tracking, and continuous improvement.
- Extract, validate, cleanse, reconcile, and integrate procurement and project data from SAP and other approved enterprise sources, maintaining traceability to source records.
- Develop maintainable Power BI data models, calculations, measures, visualizations, and executive dashboards that support drill-down from portfolio trends to actionable exceptions.
- Use advanced Excel, PivotTables, Power Query, Power Pivot, lookup functions, data models, dashboards, and validation controls to automate repeatable analysis and reduce manual reporting effort.
- Maintain data dictionaries, KPI and calculation logic, report inventories, ownership, refresh schedules, and standardized practices; monitor and resolve data-quality issues.
- Monitor commitments, purchase orders, vendor performance, invoice exceptions, open obligations, periods of performance, funding utilization, change exposure, and closeout status; escalate material exceptions with recommended actions.
- Deliver spend, demand, and market analysis to support sourcing strategy, vendor management, budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow visibility, and procurement planning for EPC work.
- Develop quantitative vendor and procurement performance measures, track action closure, and communicate findings, risks, and recommendations to technical, operational, commercial, and executive audiences.
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Finance, Data Analytics, Economics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of directly relevant analytical experience; 5 to 7 years of progressively responsible experience preferred, ideally supporting project-based or capital-intensive operations.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and Power BI capability, plus experience extracting and reconciling data from SAP or another enterprise resource planning platform.
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous problems, validate data, quantify business impact, communicate with executives, and drive cross-functional actions to closure.
- Experience in EPC, construction, engineering, industrial, nuclear, energy, federal contracting, or another regulated, project-driven environment.
- Working knowledge of procurement lifecycle management, strategic sourcing, vendor performance, purchase-order administration, procure-to-pay, spend analytics, invoice reconciliation, commitments, funding, and periods of performance.
- Experience with process mapping, workflow optimization, reporting automation, data governance, change management, and relevant professional certification.
- Awareness of controlled-information, quality, cybersecurity, and audit obligations applicable to regulated work, including CUI, UCNI, NQA-1, and CMMC where relevant.
Aecon fosters belonging within and across our organization. We consider all applicants for positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status, and all other characteristics protected by law.
We are committed to adhering to the objectives and requirements outlined in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), and to meeting the accessibility needs of persons with disabilities in a timely manner, through the implementation of the requirements of the EEOC and its applicable regulations. Appropriate accommodation under the EEOC will be provided upon request throughout the interview and hiring process.
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Nearest Major Market: Charlotte