<p>We are looking for a Logistics Analyst to support transportation, distribution, and supply chain activities for a growing operation in Arden Hills, Minnesota. This Long-term Contract position is ideal for someone with a solid foundation in logistics coordination who can help maintain efficient product movement across domestic and global channels. The role focuses on analyzing shipment activity, improving day-to-day logistics execution, and partnering with internal teams and external providers to keep supply chain operations running smoothly.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Monitor inbound and outbound shipments to help ensure timely delivery and accurate movement of goods across the supply chain.</p><p>• Coordinate with carriers, warehouses, and internal stakeholders to resolve transportation issues and maintain continuity in distribution activities.</p><p>• Review logistics data and shipment trends to identify delays, cost concerns, and opportunities to improve service performance.</p><p>• Support global and domestic logistics processes by helping manage documentation, scheduling, and communication related to freight movement.</p><p>• Track key supply chain metrics and prepare reports that help teams make informed decisions on logistics performance.</p><p>• Assist with inventory flow and distribution planning to align product availability with operational needs.</p><p>• Investigate delivery exceptions, shortages, or routing problems and recommend practical solutions to minimize disruption.</p><p>• Contribute to logistics process updates and operational changes, including support for internal system-related workflow adjustments when required.</p>
<p>This position blends hands-on inventory oversight with business analysis, helping improve product availability, reporting accuracy, and cross-functional decision-making. The ideal candidate is comfortable working with data, identifying process gaps, and turning operational information into practical recommendations.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Monitor inventory activity, evaluate stock trends, and recommend replenishment actions based on sales patterns and demand signals.</p><p>• Perform regular cycle counts and inventory reviews, investigate variances, and address underlying causes to improve record accuracy.</p><p>• Analyze operational and inventory data using tools such as Excel and Power BI to uncover trends, exceptions, and performance insights.</p><p>• Build and maintain reports and dashboards that provide clear visibility into inventory movement, service levels, and key business metrics.</p><p>• Partner with teams across the business to gather reporting needs, clarify priorities, and deliver useful analytical support.</p><p>• Strengthen inventory and reporting workflows by identifying opportunities to improve data collection, consistency, and efficiency.</p><p>• Assist team members in using reporting tools and understanding processes related to inventory data and performance tracking.</p>
We are looking for a Data Security Analyst to join a financial services organization in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this role, you will help shape and uphold enterprise data governance practices, with a strong emphasis on identifying, classifying, and safeguarding unstructured information. This position combines strategic oversight with hands-on responsibility for the security technologies that support data protection and loss prevention efforts. You will work closely with security leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to strengthen compliance, reduce information risk, and improve data handling standards across the business.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Lead the development and enforcement of data governance frameworks, standards, and controls that support secure information management across the organization.<br>• Oversee initiatives to discover, classify, and protect unstructured data, ensuring sensitive information is handled according to business and regulatory expectations.<br>• Administer and enhance data protection and data loss prevention solutions, including tools such as Varonis or comparable platforms.<br>• Partner with security, compliance, and business teams to assess information risk and implement practical safeguards that reduce exposure.<br>• Establish meaningful security and governance metrics, then monitor and report on performance to support ongoing improvement.<br>• Translate regulatory obligations into operational data security practices and help maintain alignment with applicable compliance requirements.<br>• Support the maintenance and optimization of security monitoring and related controls that contribute to broader enterprise data integrity and protection goals.<br>• Advise stakeholders on policy adherence, secure data usage, and governance best practices to strengthen the organization’s security posture.
<p>We are looking for a Supply Chain Planner to join a team where you will help align production activity, inventory availability, and customer demand in a fast-moving environment. This Long-term Contract position is suited for someone who can keep planning data accurate, respond quickly to supply changes, and work closely with internal stakeholders as well as external manufacturing partners. The role focuses on maintaining day-to-day supply execution, improving schedule reliability, and supporting consistent product delivery through disciplined planning practices.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Build and manage production schedules in an ERP system and related planning tools to support timely manufacturing order release and completion.</p><p>• Oversee the movement of materials and work orders across internal operations and contract manufacturing partners to keep production on track.</p><p>• Revise schedules when demand shifts, component availability changes, or business priorities require adjustments to the plan.</p><p>• Track inventory positions, identify potential shortages or excesses, and raise concerns promptly to help prevent service disruptions.</p><p>• Carry out recovery plans to address backorders, material constraints, and other supply issues affecting customer fulfillment.</p><p>• Maintain accurate planning and ERP data, including item records, planning settings, transaction details, and usage history.</p><p>• Perform inventory control activities such as discrepancy research, transfer order processing, receipts, and stock adjustments.</p><p>• Partner with sourcing, production, customer service, engineering, regulatory, and marketing teams to communicate status and support execution needs.</p><p>• Provide clear production updates to management and contribute reliable planning information for new products, packaging updates, and product changes.</p>
<p>We are looking for a Supply Chain Planner to support inventory planning and forecast accuracy for our operations in St Paul, Minnesota. This role focuses on balancing product availability with efficient stock levels through thoughtful analysis, cross-functional coordination, and data-driven decision-making. The ideal candidate brings strong planning expertise, attention to detail, and the ability to turn inventory and demand data into clear operational insights.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Build and maintain demand projections by evaluating past sales performance, seasonal patterns, and market activity to improve planning accuracy.</p><p>• Lead inventory count coordination and investigate variances between on-hand product and system records to maintain reliable stock data.</p><p>• Establish and adjust replenishment targets, including order quantities and safety stock levels, to support service goals and inventory efficiency.</p><p>• Review data across planning and warehouse platforms, resolve record inconsistencies, and help ensure accurate information is available for decision-making.</p><p>• Partner with sourcing teams and external suppliers to communicate anticipated demand and support timely material availability.</p><p>• Prepare regular reporting on key supply chain metrics such as inventory movement, turnover rates, and forecast performance for leadership review.</p>
We are looking for a detail-oriented contract specialist to support a focused data quality initiative in Saint Paul, Minnesota. This role is centered on improving the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of account information while helping the business maintain clean, usable records for reporting and operational needs. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical judgment, comfort with large datasets, and the ability to translate data findings into practical business insights.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Examine account records in the CRM to uncover duplicates, missing information, conflicting entries, and other data integrity concerns.<br>• Clean and standardize core account details such as company names, location fields, industry categories, and related attributes according to established data rules.<br>• Compare CRM account records against master data sources and determine accurate matches using identifiers such as customer numbers, billing references, quotes, and order details.<br>• Use Excel, data preparation tools, and logical matching methods to identify likely record connections and confirm uncertain results through careful review.<br>• Build and maintain cross-reference files that link account records between systems and clearly document updates, assumptions, and unresolved items.<br>• Investigate inconsistencies across account, quote, order, bill-to, and sold-to information, then track follow-up actions needed for resolution.<br>• Validate cleansed and mapped records through audits, spot checks, and stakeholder review to confirm readiness for reporting and future migration planning.<br>• Maintain organized logs of exceptions, risks, discrepancies, and open issues, escalating items that require business or system-owner input.
<p>We are looking for a sharp, detail-driven Investment Operations Analyst to support an investment loan portfolio in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In this role, you will help maintain accurate reporting, evaluate loan and portfolio performance, and strengthen day-to-day operational controls across investment activity. This position is well suited for someone who enjoys working with financial data, improving processes, and partnering with internal teams and external service providers to keep operations running smoothly.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Lead recurring financial reporting activities for the investment portfolio, ensuring information is complete, accurate, and delivered on schedule.</p><p>• Review monthly investor remittance activity and reconcile loan-level data, including interest accruals, payoff activity, and delinquency reporting.</p><p>• Compile month-end portfolio metrics for lending partners and validate key balances such as principal, and interest reserve positions.</p><p>• Verify the accuracy and consistency of data tied to newly acquired assets before it is incorporated into reporting and monitoring processes.</p><p>• Support loan funding administration by assessing draw requests against project progress and facilitating timely disbursements to contractors.</p><p>• Coordinate data gathering and reconciliation efforts across internal records, servicers, fund administrators, and other external providers.</p><p>• Produce and maintain portfolio performance reports and track records to support ongoing analysis and management oversight.</p><p>• Monitor cash activity across the portfolio and assist with capital calls, drawdowns, and investor distribution processing.</p><p>• Respond to investor information requests and contribute to due diligence materials, ad hoc analyses, and special projects as needed.</p>
<p>Our client in the Southwest metro is looking for a Financial Analyst with strong business partnering who has worked with large data sets and has done strategic analytics. This company is privately owned and has great leadership and is growing. Please reach out on LinkedIn @JenniferExsted.</p>
<p>We are looking for a Business Systems Analyst to support business operations and strengthen the connection between functional teams and technology solutions in Bloomington, Minnesota. This role focuses on understanding business needs, improving processes, and helping resolve system-related issues that affect day-to-day performance. The ideal candidate brings a strong analytical mindset, experience with enterprise applications, and the ability to translate complex requirements into practical, effective solutions.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Partner with business teams and technical stakeholders to gather needs, clarify objectives, and convert operational challenges into well-defined system requirements.</p><p>• Investigate application and process issues by reviewing incidents, identifying patterns, and helping drive timely resolution of production support concerns.</p><p>• Facilitate root cause analysis efforts and contribute to problem resolution and controlled change activities related to enterprise systems.</p><p>• Create clear documentation such as process maps, workflow diagrams, use cases, and data flow materials to support solution design and implementation.</p><p>• Assist with the planning, validation, rollout, and post-launch support of business applications across multiple functional areas.</p><p>• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and improve system performance through automation and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools.</p><p>• Evaluate proposed solutions to ensure they align with business goals, preserve data accuracy, and support compliance and operational reliability</p>
We are looking for a detail-oriented Business Analyst Coordinator to support member identity and eligibility data activities within a health insurance environment in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. This Long-term Contract opportunity is ideal for someone who enjoys analyzing records, resolving data discrepancies, and contributing to operational accuracy across cross-functional teams. In this role, you will help maintain data integrity, assist with process support, and contribute to quality-focused improvements that strengthen member information management.<br><br>Responsibilities:<br>• Review potential member identity matches in assigned work queues and determine the appropriate resolution based on established guidelines<br>• Investigate data discrepancies by analyzing records and comparing member information across systems and sources<br>• Reconcile member records to improve accuracy, consistency, and alignment of eligibility-related data<br>• Provide day-to-day operational and process support for the broader operations support team<br>• Identify recurring data patterns and recommend opportunities to refine matching logic and reduce manual workload<br>• Assist with quality reporting, audits, and documentation activities to support compliance and performance standards<br>• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts by helping develop practical solutions that enhance data stewardship processes
<p>We are looking for an experienced AI Business Analyst/Consultant to support a growing portfolio of artificial intelligence initiatives. This position offers the opportunity to work closely with business and technical teams to turn high-value ideas into practical AI solutions using Microsoft-based tools and platforms. The role is well suited for someone who can bridge business needs and technical delivery while helping bring scalable, production-ready solutions to life.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Engage with business partners to uncover operational needs, clarify objectives, and define solution requirements for AI-focused initiatives.</p><p>• Convert business challenges into practical concepts, prototypes, and implementation plans that align with organizational goals.</p><p>• Create, test, and launch AI-enabled tools, automated workflows, prompts, and agent-based solutions in a Microsoft-centered environment.</p><p>• Use Microsoft Copilot capabilities and related technologies to deliver solutions that improve efficiency and support day-to-day business processes.</p><p>• Work alongside internal AI specialists and cross-functional teams to strengthen designs, prepare solutions for production, and coordinate successful releases.</p><p>• Guide end users through adoption by providing training, usage support, and clear communication around new tools and processes.</p><p>• Manage assigned work with a high degree of independence, moving initiatives from early discovery through deployment and follow-up.</p><p>• Contribute to the evaluation and prioritization of a large pipeline of AI opportunities to help advance multiple initiatives each quarter.</p>
<p>We are looking for an experienced compliance and regulatory specialist to support a Financial Services organization in Minneapolis, MN. This contract-to-hire role is entirely remote, and focuses on interpreting regulatory expectations for field social media activity and helping the business maintain effective controls, sound processes, and clear risk-based guidance. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical judgment, research skills, and the ability to translate detailed requirements into practical recommendations for business partners and leadership.</p><p><br></p><p>Candidates must hold active FINRA registrations to be considered:</p><ul><li>FINRA Series 24 (General Securities Principal)</li><li>FINRA Series 7 (General Securities Representative)</li><li>FINRA Series 63, 65, or 66</li></ul><p>NICHE EXPERTISE:</p><ul><li>Broker-dealer or wealth management compliance experience focused on advisor communications, marketing compliance, and social media supervision under FINRA and SEC rules.</li><li>Direct hands-on experience utilizing communications supervision and archiving platforms such as Hearsay, Global Relay, or Yext.</li></ul><p>RESPONSIBILITIES:</p><ul><li>Review, evaluate, and supervise social media activities and marketing communications generated by financial advisors for FINRA and SEC compliance.</li><li>Conduct regulatory research, interpret rules and industry guidance, and translate findings into practical supervisory controls and procedures.</li><li>Identify compliance deficiencies, deliver constructive feedback to field representatives, and drive corrective actions.</li><li>Execute compliance testing, monitoring, and oversight activities across digital communication channels.</li><li>Consult with legal, marketing, and business leaders to support strategic growth while mitigating regulatory exposure.</li></ul>
<p>A highly respected and entrepreneurial financial services organization is seeking a <strong>Senior Due Diligence Analyst</strong> to join its collaborative team. This is an excellent opportunity for an attorney or analytical professional looking to pursue a non-traditional career path outside of private practice while leveraging their legal, research, writing, and analytical skills in the alternative investments industry.</p><p>The organization provides independent research and due diligence on a broad range of alternative investment offerings and works closely with wealth management professionals to help them make informed investment decisions.</p><p><strong>About the Opportunity</strong></p><p>This role offers exposure to a variety of complex investment structures and alternative asset classes, including commercial real estate, private equity, private credit, energy investments, and other private market strategies. The successful candidate will work alongside a multidisciplinary team of experienced professionals and will play a key role in evaluating investment offerings, identifying risks, and communicating findings through detailed written analysis.</p><p><br></p><p>This position offers the opportunity to develop deep expertise in alternative investments while working in a collegial, business-focused environment that provides an alternative to the traditional law firm career track.</p><p><br></p><p>This is a unique opportunity for attorneys and other analytical professionals seeking to apply their skills in a sophisticated business environment focused on investment due diligence, research, and risk analysis.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Conduct comprehensive due diligence reviews of alternative investment offerings.</li><li>Analyze offering memoranda, organizational documents, governance materials, financial information, third-party reports, and industry research.</li><li>Evaluate investment structures, underwriting assumptions, asset performance, and key transaction terms.</li><li>Identify, assess, and communicate material risks and other significant considerations.</li><li>Prepare detailed due diligence reports and written analyses for wealth management clients.</li><li>Manage multiple review projects simultaneously and oversee review timelines.</li><li>Perform quality control reviews of work completed by other team members.</li><li>Participate in client meetings, industry events, and other external-facing initiatives as needed.</li><li>Collaborate with colleagues across a variety of disciplines to support investment review efforts.</li></ul><p><br></p>