Business Operations Analyst, Program Manager

You will provide business unit purchasing support which includes advising on Apple purchasing, spending and reporting policies. You will be reviewing purchase requests and contracts to ensure they adhere to policies as well as overseeing vendor relationships and contracts. You will be handling engineering purchasing requests from start to finish which will include working with engineering to avoid pre-commitments. You will be savvy in utilizing Apple practices and procedures, methods and instructions in order to handle a variety of purchasing transactions in Apple’s purchasing system. You will ensure completeness and accuracy entering internal inventory data or purchase related data into relevant applications. You will also support the business unit spending lifecycle. Create yearly OPEX, CAPEX, AOU, and headcount budgets: create, gain approval, track, analyze yearly budgets to optimize engineering ability to deliver on commitments and provide accurate data to finance team. Maintain effective relationships with Apple finance, AR team, purchasing teams, business unit leadership, and cross functional teams. You will track the reports to ensure timely approvals as well as monitor Open PRs, Logged PRs, and GR data, and PO accruals to provide business unit monthly/quarterly forecast. You will also report data to the engineering team to help drive business decisions. You will oversee the quarterly closure for capital and operational expenditures and input business unit data into Balance. An ability to present and communicate effectively to executives will be required. This person will drive communication to leadership and provide OPEX/CAPEX budget reports and summarized spending and budget usage. Will drive productive, critical discussions with senior leaders while being extraordinarily detail oriented and keeping sight of the “big picture”. You will be able to drive automation and improvement in forecast data quality and adoption of reporting tools & dashboards and prepare analytics using multiple tools (Numbers, Excel, Tableau, etc.). Your attention to detail will shine as you continuously review spending data for compliance with policies, completeness, and accuracy.