Overview: The Business Analyst ("Analyst") is a member of our client's PCoE team and oversees the end-to-end procurement process to ensure transactions are timely and accurate. The Analyst is accountable for managing and maintaining policies and procedures by ensuring questions/issues are handled timely and accurately while developing knowledge and skills through formal training or considerable work experience. Our client's PCoE team acts as the primary point-of-contact for assigned organizational clients and related vendors for non-catalog procurement purchasing activities. This team ensures the efficient, accurate, and timely execution of approved procurement requests are consistent with corporate policies.

Responsibilities:
• Research, records, and inputs procurement transactions for assigned clients.
• Enters information into financial systems, related databases, and is accountable for data integrity and accuracy.
• Provides reporting to clients to support the financial planning process.
• Completes special projects as assigned to support their respective clients.
• Participates in projects to drive overall PCoE process efficiency and compliance.
• Researches and troubleshoots issues (data or process) and takes appropriate action to resolve issues.
• Identifies opportunities for process/system improvements and implement where possible.
• Gathers data and performs the analysis.
• Responsible for drafting process training material and is prepared to knowledge share if needed.
• Research and analyze information to govern, correct issues to improve financial processes, or address system issues.
• Client Support: Supports assigned clients with procurement requests
• Proactively meet with clients to review procurement requests for compliance, best practice, and identify process improvement opportunities
• Manage multiple clients via the PCoE Portal
• Manage client inquiries via email inbox assigned to one or more clients
• Provide reporting, spend analysis, and related support to develop and/or optimize spending plans
• Review and evaluate purchase request against procurement policies and procedures and internal or site-specific instructions, elevate issues with finance and clients for resolution
• Purchasing: Ensures the efficient, accurate and timely execution of procurement requests are consistent with corporate policies
• Manage and process procurement requests via a dedicated portal for one or more clients
• Review purchase requests with clients as needed
• Create and process shopping carts; validate account coding on all procurement requests
• Procurement request tracking
• PO creation, display, and maintenance; Review and approve the closure of open PO’s
• Error resolution and escalation
• Vendor master management; vendor setups/extension and vendor calls
• Provide coding guidance and act as liaison with internal partners
• Supplier validation
• Partnering: Collaborates with clients, team members, and Studio / Enterprise partners to plan, execute and continuously improve procurement activities
• Develop and manage relationships with assigned clients and key partners (e.g., Financial Systems, Finance, Legal, Tax, Sourcing, Accounting, etc.)
• Monitor procurement performance, KPIs, and other metrics to help identify continuous improvements
• Transfer knowledge of procurement practices/policies to clients
• Eager to implement new processes or learn new tools