What are the responsibilities and job description for the Operations Analyst position at Cooper Carry?
Job Description
Title: Operations Analyst
Overview
The Operations Analyst gathers, evaluates and improves internal processes to enhance efficiency and profitability of our business operations and project management. This role involves analyzing data, identifying bottlenecks, developing solutions, and implementing them to streamline project management and other workflows. Strong analytical, project management, and communication skills are essential, along with familiarity with architecture or design firm workflows.
This role reports to the Director of Operations, works closely with office Managing Directors, studio leaders, project managers and project accountants.
Qualifications
- Business, architecture or project management degree
- 5 years’ experience in business operations, project accounting or project management
- Expert knowledge of MS Excel and MS Office Suite software
- Proficient knowledge of Adobe Suite software
- Working knowledge of Deltek Vantagepoint ERP system preferred
Core skills and attributes
- Excellent communicator — able to translate business operations and financial performance data to project teams
- Strong computer and data analysis skills
- Strong financial acumen and project accounting skills
- Proactive problem-solver and decision-maker
- Strategic thinker with appetite for innovation and continuous improvement
Responsibilities
- Collect, organize and analyze internal project data, including, project information, performance metrics and financial information.
- Work with studio and project leaders to implement new project management processes and strategies focusing on project planning and profitability
- Create reports and dashboards that visualize data and clearly communicate findings and recommendations to leadership.
- Develop and deliver internal technical training on project management software and business practices.
- Collaborate with IT and design technology teams to develop reports and dashboards and streamline workflows with existing tools like BIM software, Bluebeam, Deltek Vantagepoint.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Majority of time is spent in sitting position.
- Ability to move throughout the office either by walking or through assisted means.
- There are no lifting requirements for this position.
Cooper Carry is an Affirmative Action/EEO Employer who values workplace diversity and consider applications regardless of age, race, gender, religion, color, sex, national origin, genetic information, sexual orientation, veteran status, individuals with disabilities or other status protected by law Cooper Carry provides a drug free workplace.
About the Company:
Cooper Carry is one of America's most dynamic, context-driven design firms focused on the creation of EXCEPTIONAL PLACES - neighborhoods, buildings, spaces and landscapes crafted to enrich the experience of life for the people who occupy them.
We bring an internationally recognized team of design professionals to the wide variety of project types we engage in, all united in the pursuit of excellence through the practice of connective design. Since our founding 1960, we have steadily built a reputation for thoughtful design applied to diverse projects throughout the United States, in the Caribbean and worldwide. Each project is a composition of imaginative connections among buildings and their components, and among buildings, their sites, and the communities of which they form a part.
