Job Description
Job Description
Business Analyst
A dynamic, expanding construction company is looking to add a key Business Analyst role to their organization. This Business Analyst will play a critical role in improving the operational and financial performance of a residential concrete construction company specializing in single-family, multi-family, and concrete flatwork projects. This position partners with estimating, project management, field operations, accounting, and executive leadership to analyze project performance, optimize business processes, improve profitability, and support data-driven decision-making.
The ideal candidate understands the construction lifecycle—from estimating and scheduling through project completion—and uses data to identify opportunities that improve productivity, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.
This position works out of the Becker, MN surrounding area
Relocation for the right candidate
Duties / Responsibilities
- Analyze project profitability by evaluating labor, material, equipment, subcontractor, and overhead costs.
- Monitor actual project performance against estimates and budgets, identifying cost variances and trends.
- Develop profitability reports by customer, builder, project type, subdivision, and crew.
- Support monthly financial reporting, forecasting, and annual budgeting.
- Analyze revenue, margins, backlog, and production metrics to assist executive decision-making.
- Evaluate workflows across estimating, scheduling, dispatch, field operations, billing, and closeout.
- Identify bottlenecks that impact production, profitability, or customer service.
- Recommend and implement process improvements that increase efficiency and reduce waste.
- Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) and performance metrics for key business functions.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives using Lean construction principles where appropriate.
- Track key operational metrics.
- Analyze production trends across foundations, garages, basements, sidewalks, driveways, patios, curbs, and other flatwork.
- Assist operations in balancing crew capacity, scheduling, and equipment utilization.
- Review estimating accuracy by comparing estimated versus actual project costs.
- Identify recurring estimating variances and recommend pricing adjustments.
- Support bid analysis for residential builders and developers.
- Maintain historical production and cost databases used for estimating future work.
- Create dashboards and KPI reports using Excel or similar reporting tools.
- Ensure data accuracy across ERP, accounting, estimating, scheduling, and project management systems.
- Develop automated reporting to reduce manual processes.
- Present business insights and recommendations to leadership.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Construction Management, Accounting, Engineering, or a related field.
- 3–5+ years of business analysis, financial analysis, or operations experience.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience developing dashboards and reports.
- Excellent organizational and communication skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating across multiple departments.
Preferred
- Experience in residential concrete construction or general contracting.
- Knowledge of single-family and multi-family construction processes.
- Understanding of concrete foundations, slabs, sidewalks, driveways, curb, and flatwork operations.
- Experience with construction ERP, project management, or estimating software (BuilderTrend, or similar).
- Experience with SQL, Power BI, or Tableau.
- Knowledge of job costing and Work-in-Progress (WIP) reporting.
Although a leader in the industry our client is small enough that you will be recognized for the contributions you make. We are proud of our exciting, stable, and dynamic working environment.
Our client is an equal employment opportunity employer with a drug free workplace. In addition to the Competitive Salary, we provide the opportunity to become an integral part of the continued growth of our organization. We hire only the best and the brightest.