Business Operations Analyst

Since 1934, owners and builders have selected our client to design, install, and maintain hundreds of thousands of mechanical projects. Our client is an employee-owned company dedicated to the design, fabrication, installation, maintenance and service of commercial and industrial HVAC, refrigeration, plumbing, process piping, and building automation systems. Position Details: Location : Pasadena, CA or Costa Mesa, CA (Onsite 4 days a week) Type: Full Time General Job Description Reporting to the Operations Manager, the Business Operations Analyst is responsible for the successful design and build of solutions that bring efficiency to corporate operational processes. The Application Specialist will have skills in business application configuration and integration. These skills will be utilized to demonstrate value through prototypes, documentation, demonstrations and presentations. NOTE : We are looking for an individual that has significant experience designing and configuring solutions for business process owners leveraging multiple back-office tool sets with either SmartSheets or Excel/VBA? Essential Duties & Responsibilities Partner with project managers, business analysts to elicit details from business process owners. Successfully collaborate with the operations team to develop effective back-office solutions to automate steps, gaining efficiency for operational processes and optimizing the user experience. Design and configure solutions for business process owners leveraging multiple back-office tool sets (MS Excel, Smartsheet, APIs). Testing: Unit and support User Acceptance Test in non-production environments. Troubleshoot/debug issues for on-going projects and existing, production application solutions. Author and maintain technical design and configuration written documentation and diagrams to ongoing supportability of deployed business applications. Assist go-live support and routine product maintenance, release cycles. Successfully guide on-going production support requests and/or issues. Update and add new features to existing solutions as part of Continuous Improvement, aligned to priorities set by business process owners. Position Requirements (Skills, Knowledge, Abilities): Bachelors in Business Administration, Information Systems or similar education. Familiarity with sales and accounting data reporting, ERP platforms in corporate business setting. Demonstrates strong data analysis, design and application testing skills. Understanding of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM); Agile-Scrum, Agile-Kanban, Lean Six Sigma. Advanced experience with Visual Basic for Applications specific to Excel required. Experienced with Smartsheet, including WorkApps - SaaS platform for business process automations. Experienced with Microsoft Power BI dashboards, reporting, data setup. Willing to learn and master new application platforms as required. Uses discretion and maintain confidential information. Operates in a startup fashion for emerging technologies that impact the construction industry. Quickly adapts to new business teams, new technologies and processes and take on a leadership role in solutioning for business process automation. Communicates difficult and complex concepts clearly and concisely both orally and in writing. Solves complex problems using critical thinking, at times independently and often to seek out help from team members to collaborate on innovative solutions. Ability to work independently and as part of multiple teams on overlapping projects. Blackstone Talent Group is a division of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and solutions firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone’s global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors. EOE of Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabilities