Inventory Systems Analyst

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British Columbia Rapid Transit Company Ltd. (BCRTC) maintains and operates the Expo and Millennium Sky Train Lines from our central facilities in south Burnaby. Our services connect downtown Vancouver to the cities of Burnaby, New Westminster, Coquitlam, Port Moody and Surrey. With the future expansion of both the Expo and Millennium Lines gathering pace, infrastructure renewal and new asset acquisition projects underway, this is an exciting time to join our team of over 1,200 dedicated employees, working on one of the longest fully-automated rapid transit systems in the world.

Our work encompasses roles such as administration, engineering, elevator and escalator maintenance, field operations, vehicle maintenance, and wayside (station and guideway) maintenance.

When you work for Sky Train, not only will you help move Metro Vancouver, you will also have access to comprehensive benefits including paid vacation, medical benefits, transit passes, training and more. We are a proud equal opportunity employer, committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Come explore what makes us one of BC’s Top Employers!

Provides functional support and advisory services for BCRTC users of the Inventory systems as the Procurement services lead. Liaises with various internal stakeholders to maintain the integrity of inventory data and transactions, including standard repair costing. Supports the development, testing and implementation of system upgrades and of process efficiencies related to Inventory.

• Leads development of system changes and system enhancement requirements for the Inventory team by leading the development system changes.
• Reviews business processes and system workflows.
• Identifies, develops and implements recommendations for improvements towards efficient and accurate inventory processing.
• Conducts in-depth analysis and provides recommendations for senior management decision making.
• Liaises with system users to conduct reporting requirements analyses for standard and customized reports, queries, or data access.
• Provides technical expertise to prepare, develop, produce, and support various inventory reports necessary for management decision making throughout the enterprise.
• Ensuring the inventory transactions and balances in the Enterprise Asset Management System (EAM) are accurate and in alignment with the records in the FSM system.
• Troubleshoots and resolves issues in a timely manner.
• Provides leadership to compare daily inventory outputs to resolve discrepant inventory transactions, in a timely manner to ensure a robust and reliable system.
• Serves as the subject matter expert for the company’s Inventory in EAM and collaborates with Finance to support alignment in the company’s financial system and any required integration with other modules within the company’s Inventory systems.
• Identifies opportunities to streamline and improve the inventory system or related processes.
• Conducts user acceptance testing and integration testing for implementations, upgrades and enhancements as a key user resource including developing and executing test scenarios, providing analysis and thereby making recommendations.
• Develops business and system process documentation and training materials and facilitates training for users.
• Maintains documentation of Inventory modules, processes, and any configuration changes for the company’s Inventory system in accordance with company standards.
• Reviews on an ongoing basis all standard repair costs in the asset management system.
• Obtains all the required cost elements from maintenance to produce a standard repair cost model for the Asset Management System.
• Collaborates with Finance to obtain approval of standard repair costs.
• Reviews inputs for accuracy and performs required updates in the asset management system.
• Provides direction and guidance to lower-level staff within the department as required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: The requirements of the role can be acquired through completion of a Diploma designation in Business or…