Business Analyst Senior - Analytics Center of Excellence - Day

Hours: M-F DayFull Time: 40 hours/weekGeneral SummaryResponsible for retrieving, interpreting, and analyzing data to drive key business decisions and actions, measure program efficacy and contribute to strategic direction. Helps drive the success of the business by providing business analyses and analytical solutions to guide management and operational decision-making. Works on projects and products dealing with key performance metrics tracking, financial and business assessments of potential strategic initiatives and other ad hoc requests. The solutions could range from dashboards in advanced BI content to exploratory analysis and impact assessments that leads to strategic recommendations. This position will work collaboratively with associates across different levels, functions, business units and regions to support all data and analytical products. Working with other teams across the Analytics Center of Excellence (ACoE), participates as a catalyst for maintaining the product life cycle, focusing on system strategic goals and objectives, assist business stakeholders with formulating appropriate data and analytics questions that will lead to analyses which will reveal relevant insights. Assists stakeholders with interpreting results, at times applying visualization techniques (e.g., Microsoft Power BI). Collaborates with developers and end users to ensure technical requirements and specifications reflect appropriate business logic. Engages with various groups within WellSpan to gather business requirements while ensuring that these requirements align to the various analytics products existing or currently underway. There will be opportunities to enhance business processes and the requirement to build test cases and support functional testing and UAT. This position will leverage the analytics spectrum to tell a story with the data, working with senior level analysts to ensure the application of the most appropriate approach for each business need. This position requires the soft skill of story-telling through data, by turning technical information into easy-to-understand non-technical action items. Confidence in presentation of findings and excellent communication skills are desired. This position will develop the ability to view business problems from varying perspectives and continuously display curiosity.Duties and Responsibilities• Works with partners across the WellSpan business domains to gather detailed business requirements. Be point person for collation of requirements and subsequent sharing and obtaining of sign offs. Defines testing approach and strategy and help execute this strategy during test phases of project.• Works with engineering and development team members to define the functional and technical design to support business processing requirements for data and analytics products.• Works with the Product Manager and Product Owners to ensure delivery throughout the lifecycle of the product. Tracks and communicates status to wider team and management as needed.• Collaborates with the development team on test plan development, design test strategy and manage the UAT process.• Assists customers with formulating appropriate data questions to meet business and strategic needs.• Able to take a business question or need and turn it into a data question for the purpose of transforming and analyzing the data to extract an answer to that question.• Supports the ACoE data and analytics strategy, processes, technical architecture, and design of subject areas.• Collaborates with developers and end users to ensure technical requirements and specifications reflect appropriate business logic.• Supports system wide data integrity, quality control and standardization as identified by system leaders and/or system level teams.• Mentors other business analysts and work with leadership in establishing and adopting best practices within business analysis, product owner and scrum master responsibilitiesQualificationsMinimum Education:• High School Diploma or GED Required• Bachelors Degree PreferredWork Experience:• 8 years Healthcare operations or Data and Analytics related experience. Required• SQL experience preferred or other query language• HR Data or Finance Data experience is a plus• Experience working with Oracle Data a plusKnowledge, Skills, and Abilities:• Business Analysis, Business Requirements Documents, Project Management skills• Experience in Agile methodologies, writing User Stories, Using Jira.• Strong teamwork/communication/customer service skillsNote: This position is not Visa Sponsorship EligiblePreference is someone located in EST time zone.Benefits Offered:• Comprehensive health benefits• Flexible spending and health savings accounts• Retirement savings plan• Paid time off (PTO)• Short-term disability• Education assistance• Financial education and support, including DailyPay• Wellness and Wellbeing programs• Caregiver support via Wellthy• Childcare referral service via Wellthy