Business Analyst, Excel Power User (FT/Remote) (Permanent Work Status Req'd)

About Us

Our purpose is to help clients exceed their financial health goals. Across the reimbursement cycle, our scalable solutions and clinical expertise help solve programmatic needs. Enabling our teams with leading technology allows analytics to guide our solutions and keeps us accountable achieving goals. We build long-term careers by investing in YOU. We seek to create an environment that cultivates your professional development and personal growth, as we believe your success is our success.

Job Summary

The Business Analyst, under general direction, is responsible for analyzing, identifying, and owning operational initiatives and ensuring efforts are focused on business critical, business improvement, and financially beneficial activities. Job duties include collecting all operational initiatives. With the input of leadership, this role will determine the prioritization of initiatives, taking into account the company’s goals and ROI. Job responsibilities also include creating succinct business requirements for our application and analytic teams and creating ad-hoc financial and operational reports as-needed. Job requires providing executive-level status updates. This is a remote position.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Own and manage business analyses, scalability, and driving fresh initiatives for financial planning and business intelligence systems
• Collaborate with Finance, Business, and IT Teams to develop initiatives and strategies that optimize costs and improve internal and external reporting
• Own and manage multi-departmental initiatives and work with project coordinators and internal teams on progress. Report to management.
• Set the prioritization of initiatives based on ROI organizationally and financially
• Create detailed business requirements, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions and have a thorough understanding of key performance indicators
• Create requirements for analytics to aid in the creation of actionable dashboards
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses. Assemble and summarize data to support operational decision making and develop and/or improve processes and financial reporting
• Resolve complex issues with minimal supervision.
• Additional responsibilities that would correlate with the growth of the company.

Skills

• Strong financial acumen, technology, analytical, and communication skills; seeks out inefficient workflows and processes to increase departmental productivity
• Self-driven with minimal supervision. Works Independently but also a Team Player
• Able to create project plans, business requirements, testing grids, and reports with minimal guidance
• Able to own multiple cross-departmental projects that span a few days to months
• Able to guide teams to successful project launch and post-deployment support
• Superb organizational and time management skills
• Exceptional written and verbal communication and time management skills
• Able to adapt and work in an open, fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Extremely organized, action oriented and deadline driven
• Excellent critical thinking skills
• Strict adherence to HIPAA/HITECH compliance and confidentiality

Education/Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Analytics, Economics or MIS strongly preferred
• 3 years working with Excel using complex formulas, Pivot Tables, Power Query, dashboard development, data modeling, reporting automation, and large dataset analysis
• 3 years of project management experience in a business/healthcare environment
• 3 years of business analytics/informatics experience in a business/healthcare environment
• Highly Proficient in MS Outlook, Word
• Experience working in Hospital Utilization Management, Case Management, CDI and Coding, and Revenue Cycle Operations

We Offer

• Competitive salary commensurate to related experience (~65k annually)
• Quality of life with a remote predictable, full-time schedule with flexible start and end times
• Medical, Dental, Vision coverage + more
• Long-term disability insurance, and life insurance
• Holidays and paid time off
• 401K with company match
• Ambient parental leave
• Certification Reimbursement

Physical Demands

Regular eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity is required to operate office equipment. The ability to perform work at a computer terminal for 6-8 hours a day and function in an environment with constant interruptions is required. At times, Team Members are subject to sitting for prolonged periods. Infrequently, Team Member must be able to lift and move material weighing up to 20 lbs. Team Member may experience elevated levels of stress during periods of increased activity and with work entailing multiple deadlines.