Business Analyst

Flowood, MS - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Ergon Trucking is seeking a full-time Business Analyst to join the team. This role serves as the analytical engine for our operations transforming raw maintenance safety logistics and financial data into the strategic insights that move our organization forward.

Reporting to the leadership team you will be responsible for building the source of truth for our operations-developing KPIs managing dashboards and identifying the trends that impact our bottom line. You will partner closely with Operations Maintenance Finance and Safety teams to ensure our data is clean our costs are understood and our operational decisions are backed by rigorous analysis. This position is essential for ensuring that our facilities and fleet operate efficiently safely and cost-effectively.

Business Analyst Education and Experience Requirements:

Bachelors degree in Business Administration Finance Supply Chain or a related field.
Minimum of 36 years of experience in business analysis financial modeling or operations analytics.

Business Analyst Duties and Responsibilities:

Operational Insight & KPI Development: Build and maintain automated dashboards to track critical operational metrics (e.g. equipment utilization downtime analysis and throughput).
Maintenance & Lifecycle Analytics: Identify operational trends by analyzing equipment repair spend preventive maintenance compliance and lifecycle costs to identify opportunities for cost reduction.
Safety & Compliance Reporting: Partner with Safety teams to track and visualize safety metrics ensuring high data integrity for compliance reporting and risk mitigation.
Financial Foresight: Translate complex operational and maintenance data into actionable summaries for leadership to improve margin transparency and budget accuracy.
Data Engineering & Integrity: Clean and harmonize data from various operational systems to ensure a high level of accuracy in all reporting.
Strategic Support: Perform scenario-based forecasting to help the division navigate fluctuations in labor costs material spend and operational demand.
Collaborative Liaison: Act as the bridge between technical IT teams and the shop floor ensuring that data systems effectively support the needs of maintenance and operations managers.
Narrative Reporting: Prepare clear concise monthly performance packages that translate complex operational data into a narrative for senior management.
Data-to-Action: Facilitate meetings with regional and site managers to discuss findings obtain concurrence on process improvements and drive operational efficiency.

Business Analyst Preferred Skills:

Analytical Rigor: A detective mindset with a high attention to detail for cleaning messy operational and financial data.
ERP Expertise: Exposure to SAP or similar enterprise systems is highly preferred.
Communication Excellence: The ability to explain complex data findings to both shop-floor personnel and executive leadership.
Problem-Solving: Proactive in identifying red flags in the maintenance or safety data before they become financial liabilities.
Advanced Excel: Mastery of Excel (Power Query Pivot Tables) is required for deep-dive financial and operational modeling.

Why Ergon Inc.

At Ergon we are a relationship-driven family-owned company that values each employees growth and contributions. Headquarters in Flowood Mississippi we take pride in maintaining a close-knit small-company atmosphere while offering exceptional career opportunities. Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

Competitive pay
401(k) matching & profit sharing
Health Dental Vision and Life Insurance
Short- and Long-Term Disability Plans
Additional voluntary benefits
Paid holidays vacation and sick leave
Tuition assistance

At Ergon Inc. we live by our core values:

Empowered Service: Together were committed to delivering unparalleled service. We do whats right provide solutions and foster stronger relationships with our teams and customers. Employee safety is our top priority and the first consideration in all aspects of our service. Thats empowered service.
Selfless Leadership: We lead with compassion and put those around us before ourselves. We dont say were experts; we demonstrate it through technical expertise category innovation and care for what we do. We call this selfless leadership.
Purposeful Growth: We believe employee and company growth go hand in hand. We build our legacy together to ensure future success through purposeful growth. The company has continually reinvested tremendously back into the business not just growing for the sake of growing but growing carefully and strategically.
Respectful Relationships: Together we foster a culture of respect acceptance and diversity of ideas and people. Our differences make us stronger. Were united by our shared values constantly forging respectful relationships.

Come and join the Ergon team!

We are an EEO/AAP employer.

Job Role: Financial Analyst

Location: Flowood MS

Employment offer contingent upon pre-employment drug test background check and MVR.

Required Experience: