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: 
Note: The essential duties and responsibilities below are intended to describe the general duties and responsibilities of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. This position may perform all or most of the primary duties listed below. Specific tasks, responsibilities or competencies may be documented in the Team Member’s performance objectives as outlined by the Team Member’s immediate Leadership Team Member.

This is a remote position.

Sadly, we are on high alert for scams, imposters and application fraud.

We employ comprehensive screening and verification methods. Any attempt at application fraud or misrepresentation will be identified and lead to immediate removal from consideration.

This position requires a proctored Excel assessment.

Job 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