Procurement Analyst (Direct) - San Francisco, CA
About The Position
The Procurement Analyst (Direct) owns the procure-to-pay cycle for IREN’s datacenter and AI infrastructure projects and helps keep project spending visible and controlled. The role handles purchasing parts needed to operate existing sites, such as transceivers, network cards, cables, and replacement hardware, including time-sensitive orders. It also validates and processes invoices against contracts, purchase orders, and approved scope while tracking project budgets, burn rates, and actuals against forecasts. Reporting to the Director, Business Operations (S2P), the analyst serves as a day-to-day liaison among requestors, project managers, vendors, Procurement, Legal, and Finance, and maintains related records in SAP. The position supports datacenter construction, development, and technology projects, including project cost tracking, month-end activities, reporting, and process improvements. The posting identifies the role as hybrid and describes work across U.S. and Canadian operations, requiring a reliable home-office setup, flexible work hours across time zones, and occasional travel to data center sites, supplier locations, and team events. Pre-employment screening, including a background check and substance testing, may be required under company policies.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, accounting, finance, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of experience across purchasing or procure-to-pay operations, accounts payable or billing, and project cost control.
- Hands-on experience with SAP or another large-scale ERP, including purchase-order entry, vendor onboarding and master data, invoice and SES entry, and invoice-exception resolution.
- Working knowledge of the procure-to-pay cycle, including RFQs, purchase-order drafting, legal and delegated-authority approvals, three-way matching, and payment.
- Working knowledge of contracts, change orders, and project scope.
- Experience with project cost tracking, including budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, burn-rate monitoring, accruals, and cost coding.
- Familiarity with IT and network hardware terminology, including transceivers, NICs, optics, and cabling, sufficient to run RFQs and coordinate technical review.
- Advanced Excel and strong MS Office skills; ability to produce cost, status, and exception reports for Finance and operations.
- Highly detail-oriented and organized, able to manage concurrent orders, invoices, and projects with urgency, and communicate clearly with vendors, project managers, executives, and Finance.
- A reliable home-office setup, flexible work hours across time zones, and ability to travel occasionally to data center sites, supplier locations, and team events.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in datacenter, critical infrastructure, or large-scale construction environments.
Responsibilities
- Receive and triage parts requests from datacenter technicians, software development, and site teams.
- Issue RFQs to approved suppliers to obtain cost and lead-time information, confirm viability with requestors, and obtain formal quotes.
- Own the end-to-end procure-to-pay process with internal and external stakeholders.
- Make SAP entries, including vendor onboarding and purchase-order uploads for Finance approval.
- Review and validate vendor and contractor invoices against contracts, purchase orders, and approved scope for accuracy and compliance.
- Manage invoice exceptions in SAP, resolving blocked, mismatched, underfunded, or misaligned purchase orders and invoices with vendors, project managers, Procurement, and accounts payable; serve as the primary contact for vendor billing inquiries.
- Prepare a month-end invoice exceptions report for Finance and weekly summaries of approved SES billing for project controls teams.
- Manage and track budgets for datacenter construction, development, and technology projects; maintain cost records, monitor actuals against budgets, prepare forecasts, variance analyses, and cost summaries, and act as a finance business partner to project stakeholders.
- Monitor major-contractor burn rates, flag potential funding shortfalls to project teams, and work with Procurement on material costs and cash-flow timing.
- Support month-end accruals, cost forecasting, accounts-payable reconciliation, and financial reporting; respond to audit and documentation requests related to project spending.
- Identify recurring delays, exceptions, and control gaps in procure-to-pay and project-cost processes, and recommend process or SAP improvements.
Benefits
- Base salary and annual performance incentives.
- Equity programs, including long-term incentives.
- Relocation or living-out allowance/per diem, depending on candidate circumstances.
- 100% company-paid employee health insurance premiums for medical, dental, and vision; 75% company-paid dependent coverage.
- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
- Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage.
- Health Savings Accounts when paired with the High Deductible Health Plan.
- Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Access to financial planning and legal services.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Internal skills training and advancement pathways.
- Professional development for certifications, continuing education, or role-related training.
- Company events and team-building activities.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
