Senior Analyst, Supply Chain Compliance & Analytics

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The Senior Analyst, Supply Chain Compliance & Analytics role is responsible for strengthening and scaling existing supply chain compliance execution, ongoing audit readiness, government/customer reporting, and analytics-enabled continuous improvement for procurement, strategic sourcing, subcontracting, supplier management, materials, and contract administration. This role helps validate, sustain, and enhance accurate, traceable, and defensible reporting positions, data inputs, supplier files, and business decision support aligned with FAR, DFARS, ITAR, EAR, CAS where applicable, prime contract flowdowns, customer terms, and internal controls.

This position sits at the intersection of Supply Chain, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Subcontracts, Materials Management, Contracts, Legal, Finance, Quality, and Program Management. The successful candidate will translate evolving regulatory obligations and operational questions into enhancements to existing processes, reports, dashboards, controls, and response packages that help the business move quickly while sustaining audit readiness.

This is a compliance and reporting leadership role with strong analytics enablement. Technology, dashboards, automation, and AI-enabled workflows are tools to improve visibility, exception identification, workflow consistency, and execution. The role is not intended to own enterprise architecture, platform administration, data engineering, or day-to-day systems maintenance.

Government Reporting & Compliance Deliverables

• Lead and coordinate recurring government and customer reporting obligations related to procurement, subcontracting, supplier management, supply chain performance, and government contract compliance.

• Maintain and enhance the established reporting calendar with deadlines, accountable owners, source systems, review and approval paths, submission records, and evidence retention requirements.

• Prepare, review, and validate report inputs to support continued accuracy, completeness, traceability, and defensibility before submission.

• Support government-contractor reporting and data calls, customer/DCMA/DCAA requests, CPSR-related inquiries, and other oversight requests.

• Develop and refine clear narratives, management summaries, and response packages for internal leadership, customer reviews, audit teams, and government oversight activities.

• Partner with Contracts, Finance, Legal, Quality, Procurement, and Program Management to investigate discrepancies when they arise and maintain documented, supportable reporting positions.

Supply Chain Analytics, Metrics & Decision Support

• Support reporting of key metrics and scorecards for compliance posture, procurement file quality, supplier onboarding, subcontract flowdown execution, small business commitments, supplier delivery and quality, material readiness, requisition-to-purchase-order cycle time, purchase order accuracy, audit action items, continuous improvement activities, and corrective actions when applicable.

• Translate evolving regulatory obligations, operating questions, and leadership priorities into enhancements to ad hoc analyses, dashboards, scorecards, and executive-ready insights in partnership with Analytics, Business Systems, and functional supply chain teams.

• Develop and maintain a deep working understanding of internal supply chain data sources across ERP, MRP, procurement, subcontracts, supplier quality, and materials systems to support accurate reporting and repeatable analysis.

• Partner with analytics engineering resources to validate that datasets, dashboard logic, and metric definitions are modeled appropriately for supply chain compliance, operational reporting, and trend tracking.

• Use dashboards and exception reports to identify compliance trends, bottlenecks, control improvement opportunities, cycle-time delays, supplier risk signals, and opportunities for corrective action when applicable.

• Assess relevant external data sources, reporting tools, and supplier/supply chain intelligence sources that could further improve compliance visibility, reporting quality, supplier risk management, or operational insight.

• Maintain a feedback loop with business users to improve dashboard usefulness, report clarity, metric adoption, and the practical value of analytics outputs.

Process Improvement, Automation & Workflow Enablement

• Identify opportunities to further streamline, automate, or make self-service appropriate compliance, reporting, evidence-collection, approval, and status-tracking processes.

• Partner with analytics, automation, and business systems resources to enhance, extend, and standardize controlled workflows for data collection, approvals, exception routing, corrective action tracking, and management reporting.

• Evaluate automation and AI-enabled workflow concepts to preserve human review, documentation, data integrity, access controls, approval discipline, and audit trail requirements.

• Translate manual, semi-automated, or evolving reporting processes, where appropriate, into clear business requirements, acceptance criteria, control expectations, and operating procedures for technical teams and business owners.

• Manage cross-functional improvement projects with clear scope, milestones, owners, risks, dependencies, and implementation communications.

• Educate business users through training, documentation, office hours, and adoption support so reporting and workflow improvements become embedded in daily operations.

Systems & Data Enablement - Supporting Responsibility

• Validate and enhance the use of ERP, MRP, procurement, contract management, and reporting tools to capture data, approvals, and supporting evidence needed for audit readiness, government reporting, and operational decision-making.

• Clarify, maintain, and enhance source-of-record expectations for critical report inputs, metric definitions, control evidence, supplier attributes, and compliance data elements.

• Review system, dashboard, automation, and process changes from a compliance perspective to help preserve required controls, retention, traceability, and data quality expectations.

• Use available system outputs to support reporting, monitoring, and decision-making while relying on dedicated technical teams for SQL pipeline development, code ownership, platform administration, enterprise architecture, and day-to-day systems maintenance.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain, procurement, subcontracts, contracts, compliance, internal controls, audit readiness, government reporting, supply chain analytics enablement, or related roles.

• Demonstrated experience supporting government contracting operations, preferably in aerospace, defense, national security, advanced manufacturing, complex hardware, or other highly regulated environments.

• Strong working knowledge of FAR and DFARS, with the ability to interpret regulatory and contractual requirements and translate them into practical operational controls.

• Experience preparing, validating, or supporting government/customer reporting, audit responses, compliance submissions, data calls, formal review packages, or management reporting.

• Experience supporting DCAA audits, DCMA reviews, CPSR preparation, internal audits, customer reviews, or similar oversight activities.

• Proven ability to strengthen, maintain, monitor, and continuously improve internal controls, policies, procedures, corrective action plans, and evidence-retention practices.

• Strong understanding of procurement, subcontracting, supplier management, material planning touchpoints, contract flowdowns, approval controls, segregation of duties, and audit-ready file documentation.

• Demonstrated ability to define and refine KPIs, interpret supply chain data, and translate operational or compliance questions into reporting requirements, dashboards, scorecards, or executive insights.

• Experience partnering with analytics, business intelligence, automation, or business systems teams to improve reporting quality, supply chain visibility, metric tracking, or workflow efficiency.

• Working familiarity with ERP, MRP, procurement, contract management, or supplier management systems as sources of evidence, metrics, and reporting data.

• Excellent written communication skills, including experience preparing executive summaries, audit responses, compliance memos, reporting narratives, procedures, training materials, and business requirements.

• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence without direct authority, and drive accountability across multiple stakeholder groups.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business, supply chain, contracts, finance, compliance, information systems, engineering, analytics, or a related field.

• Direct experience with ITAR, EAR, CAS, small business subcontracting plans/reporting, supplier socioeconomic reporting, eSRS, SAM.gov representations/certifications, or other government-contractor reporting obligations.

• Experience in aerospace and defense, federal contracting, government services, complex hardware, manufacturing, or supply chain operations supporting regulated products or programs.

• Familiarity with supply chain analytics concepts such as bill of materials management, material planning, supplier delivery metrics, supplier quality metrics, spend analysis, should-cost analysis, supplier risk, inventory/material readiness, and cycle-time measurement.

• Power-user experience with business intelligence, analytics, or workflow platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools.

• Working knowledge of SQL, advanced Excel, basic programming/automation concepts, APIs, structured data, or version-controlled analytics workflows sufficient to partner effectively with technical teams.

• Experience assessing external data sources, supplier intelligence tools, software products, or automation opportunities that could improve reporting, risk management, or supply chain visibility.

• Experience evaluating or applying AI-enabled summaries, exception detection, workflow automation, or other emerging tools in a controlled business environment.

• Familiarity with SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, Workday, or similar ERP/procurement/contract management platforms.

• Relevant certifications such as CFCM, CPCM, CCCM, CCEP, CISA, CSCP, CPIM, PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or similar.

Proven Results

The ideal candidate can demonstrate proven results in the following areas:

Supply Chain & Enterprise Reporting Enhancement

• Enhancement, scaling, or deployment support for supply chain and enterprise reporting solutions that improve visibility across operations, program management, and supply chain.

• Measurable improvements in reporting cycle time, consistency, accuracy, or efficiency through automation, standardized metrics, and improved reporting discipline.

• Expansion of self-service, near-real-time, or standardized reporting capabilities where appropriate.

Business Intelligence, Dashboards & Decision Support

• Enhancement, deployment, or adoption of production dashboards and reporting solutions that support data-driven decision-making across operations.

• Distilling complex datasets into actionable insights that support measurable business outcomes such as cost savings, efficiency gains, improved compliance visibility, supplier performance improvement, or cycle-time reduction.

• Improved user adoption through intuitive design, stakeholder collaboration, training, and practical business alignment.

AI-Enabled Process Support

• Experience evaluating, enabling, or applying AI-supported tools in a controlled business environment to improve knowledge access, exception detection, policy guidance, training support, or supply chain process efficiency.

• Ability to preserve human review, documentation, data integrity, access controls, approval discipline, and audit trail requirements within AI-enabled workflows.

Compliance & Documentation Support

• Experience enhancing compliance documentation systems and practices that support streamlined procurement documentation, evidence retention, and audit readiness.

• Supported ongoing CPSR readiness through systematic data tracking, reporting discipline, file documentation, and evidence retention practices.

Process Transformation & Continuous Improvement

• Proven results supporting technology-enabled process improvement, workflow standardization, and operational efficiency.
• Demonstrated capability as a change agent for large-scale organizational change, including ERP changes, process changes, corporate initiatives, and other high-impact efforts.

Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.