Senior Business Analyst, Finance & Accounting – Procurement & Supply Chain

Position Summary

The Business Enterprise Solutions (BES) team is part of Southland's Corporate Technology & Innovation organization and is responsible for delivering enterprise technology solutions that support operational excellence, business growth, and strategic objectives across the enterprise.

The Senior Business Analyst, Finance & Accounting – Procurement & Supply Chain serves as the primary liaison between Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance & Accounting, Operations, and Technology teams. This role works closely with the Supply Chain Technology Leader to support, optimize, and continuously improve the business processes and technology solutions that enable Southland's procurement, supply chain, and financial operations. The position supports both day-to-day operational needs and strategic transformation initiatives while helping establish and mature Southland's supply chain technology capabilities.

The ideal candidate combines strong business analysis skills with experience in procurement, sourcing, vendor management, inventory, accounts payable, job costing, ERP systems, and construction operations. This individual serves as a trusted business partner who can translate business challenges into practical technology solutions while driving process improvement, operational efficiency, reporting maturity, and data-driven decision-making.

This position reports to the Director of Finance & Accounting Technologies.

• Serve as the primary technology partner for Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance & Accounting stakeholders.

• Build trusted relationships with business leaders to understand operational challenges, strategic priorities, and improvement opportunities.

• Facilitate business workshops, discovery sessions, interviews, and process reviews.

• Gather, analyze, document, and validate business requirements.

• Translate business requirements into functional specifications, process maps, user stories, and solution recommendations.

• Serve as a trusted advisor on procurement and supply chain technology capabilities and best practices.

• Support business processes spanning:

• Strategic Sourcing

• Procurement

• Vendor Management

• Contract Management

• Purchase Orders

• Inventory Management

• Warehouse Operations

• Material Planning

• Supplier Performance

• Logistics & Distribution

• Accounts Payable Integration

• Identify process bottlenecks, inefficiencies, manual workarounds, and operational risks.

• Recommend solutions that improve operational efficiency, compliance, data quality, and user experience.

• Support continuous improvement initiatives aligned with business objectives.

• Collaborate with Finance & Accounting stakeholders to ensure procurement processes support financial controls, audit requirements, budgeting, forecasting, and reporting needs.

• Support procure-to-pay (P2P) process improvements and technology enhancements.

• Partner with Finance teams to improve visibility into spend management, supplier performance, purchasing compliance, and operational reporting.

• Support financial process integrations between procurement and accounting systems.

• Develop business requirements documents (BRDs), process maps, gap analyses, use cases, and functional designs.

• Conduct current-state and future-state process analysis.

• Lead requirements gathering and solution design activities for business-led technology initiatives.

• Participate in software selection, implementation, configuration, testing, and deployment activities.

• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect management, and post-production validation.

• Support organizational readiness and change management activities associated with new technology solutions.

• Partner with business stakeholders to define KPIs, operational metrics, dashboards, and reporting requirements.

• Support spend analytics, supplier analytics, inventory reporting, procurement performance metrics, and supply chain reporting.

• Collaborate with reporting and analytics teams to improve business visibility and decision-making capabilities.

• Ensure data definitions, reporting standards, and business processes align with governance requirements.

• Support the Supply Chain Technology Leader in executing supply chain technology initiatives and roadmap objectives

• Participate in initiatives involving ERP platforms, procurement…