Join Our Team as a Consulting Business Analyst
We are seeking an experienced Consulting Business Analyst to join our HIM, Coding, and Abstraction department. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in analyzing business needs, facilitating solution definition, and integrating business processes, roles, and technology to ensure business objectives are met. This is a remote opportunity, offering the flexibility to work from anywhere while being part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future of healthcare technology and informatics.
About Our Company and Culture
Our organization is dedicated to leveraging technology and informatics to improve healthcare outcomes. We value innovation, collaboration, and customer-centricity, and we are committed to creating a work environment that is inclusive, supportive, and empowering. Our team is passionate about making a difference in the lives of patients and healthcare professionals, and we are looking for individuals who share our vision and values.
Our Mission and Values
Our mission is to harness the power of technology and informatics to drive healthcare excellence. We are guided by a set of core values that include:
- Patient-centered care: We prioritize the needs and well-being of patients and healthcare professionals.
- Innovation: We encourage creativity, experimentation, and learning to drive continuous improvement.
- Collaboration: We foster a culture of teamwork, communication, and mutual respect.
- Excellence: We strive for excellence in everything we do, from the quality of our work to the way we interact with each other and our stakeholders.
Job Summary
The Consulting Business Analyst will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to create and facilitate business technical and analytics requirements and processes. The successful candidate will have a strong background in business analysis, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team. This role requires proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and BI tools, as well as experience with statistical analysis techniques, big data tools, programming, and data science terminologies and methodologies.
Key Responsibilities
Business Analysis Leadership
- Acts as a consultant to other analysts and as an auditor of documents and models produced by other analysts and business consultants.
- Effectively understands and teaches the role of a business area within the greater company context.
- Provides coaching and mentoring to other business analysts.
- Facilitates training of Business Analysis best practices.
Operational Excellence
- Develops and maintains BA templates, BA tools, and BA framework.
- Develops, shares, and leverages best practices across functional teams.
- Collaborates with peers to develop a customized business analysis approach, defining the business analysis tasks, resources, and estimated effort to complete a project.
Business Liaison/Consultant
- Leverages a robust network of relationships across multiple business areas.
- Facilitates communications between IT and the business.
- Assists in the development of metrics used to track value delivery.
- Drives business-centric collaboration with stakeholders, business users, and technical solution providers to understand business needs, project objectives, scope, dependencies, and risks for projects.
- Communicates the approach and work with the project team to modify and ultimately gain approval for the analysis activities.
- Manages changes to the solution requirements, assessing the impact of requirement changes, and ensuring appropriate approval of those changes.
- Manages solution requirement communication, ensuring that stakeholders have a shared understanding of the requirements.
- Quickly understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements, analyzes and presents solution options.
- Coordinates and leads User Acceptance Testing, prioritizing gaps and negotiating between the business and technical solution providers to gain product acceptance.
Requirements and Qualifications
Essential Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in informatics, analytics, business analytics, statistics, computer science, or a related field.
- 5-7 years of business analysis or relevant work experience.
- Advanced Microsoft Office/Excel experience.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in individual and group settings.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in the healthcare delivery environment (clinical/support).
- Experience using workflow management software (i.e., JIRA).
- Experience analyzing healthcare enterprise-sized (very large) data sets.
- 1-3 years of reporting and data analysis experience.
Skills and Competencies
- Technical skills: Demonstrates proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and BI tools. Understands statistical analysis techniques, big data tools, programming, software development lifecycle (SDLC), and data science terminologies and methodologies.
- Numeracy skills: Demonstrates proficiency in statistical calculations, argumentation, and logical thinking, interpreting mathematical information, relationships of numbers, and measurement used in analytics.
- Critical thinking: Actively and skillfully conceptualizes, applies, analyzes, synthesizes, or evaluates information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication as a guide to belief and action.
- Building and Maintaining Strategic Working Relationships: Develops collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals. Possesses excellent interpersonal skills in building, negotiating, and maintaining crucial relationships.
- Adaptability: Maintains effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment; able to adapt to change in environment and/or circumstances with a positive outlook; and adjusting effectively to work within new work structures, processes, requirements, or cultures.
- Initiative: Independently takes prompt proactive steps towards problem resolution.
- Effective Decision Making: Able to gather facts, assess all perspectives, and weigh different possibilities in order to influence positive outcomes.
- Managing Conflict: Deals effectively with others in an antagonistic situation; using appropriate interpersonal styles and methods to reduce tension or conflict between two or more people.
- Energy: Consistently maintaining high levels of activity or productivity; sustaining long working hours when necessary; operates with vigor, effectiveness, and determination over extended periods.
- Stress Tolerance: Maintaining stable performance under pressure or opposition; handling stress in a manner that is acceptable to others and the organization.
- Organization: Proactively self-prioritizes assigned initiatives communicating challenges along the way.
- Communication: Communicates clearly, proactively, and concisely with all key stakeholders.
- Customer Orientation: Establishes and maintains long-term customer relationships, building trust and respect by consistently meeting and exceeding expectations.
- Works Independently & Collaborates in Teams: Is self-supporting; not needing to rely on others to complete assigned tasks while also being able to work in teams to accomplish initiatives.
- Facilitation: Ability to facilitate small to large groups of people at various organizational levels for purposes of planning, problem-solving, or strategy development.
What We Offer
As a valued member of our team, you will enjoy a range of benefits and opportunities, including:
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to work on exciting and challenging projects that make a real difference in healthcare.
- Flexible remote work arrangement.
- Professional development and growth opportunities.
- Collaborative and dynamic work environment.
- Recognition and rewards for outstanding performance.
How to Apply
If you are a motivated and experienced business analyst looking for a new challenge, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Please submit your resume and a cover letter outlining your qualifications and experience to [insert contact information]. We look forward to hearing from you!
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace and strive to create an environment that is inclusive and respectful of all employees.
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