Business Analyst

Job Description:

Under general supervision, is responsible for retrieving, interpreting, and analyzing data to drive key business decisions and actions, measure department 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. Works collaboratively with associates across different levels, functions, business units and departments to support all data and analytical products. Assists stakeholders with interpreting results, at times applying visualization techniques. 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. Leverages the analytics spectrum to tell a story with the data, working with department leaders and teams to ensure the application of the most appropriate approach for each business need.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Works with partners across the WellSpan business domains to gather detailed business requirements. Is responsible for collation of requirements and subsequent sharing and obtaining of sign offs. Defines testing approach and strategy and helps execute this strategy during test phases of project.
2. Manages, and maintains capital replacement plans, creates pro formas to support business decisions.
3. Works with team members to define the functional and technical design to support business processing requirements for data and analytics products.
4. Provides support and training for current and new users of reporting sites, reports and available resources.
5. Assists customers with formulating appropriate data questions to meet business and strategic needs.
6. 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.
7. Collaborates with end users to ensure technical requirements and specifications reflect appropriate business logic.
8. Supports system wide data integrity, quality control and standardization as identified by system leaders and/or system level teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum Experience:
  • 3 Years
  • Min Field of Expertise Data and Analytics related experience
• Minimum Education:
  • Bachelor's Degree
• Physical Demands:
  • Mostly sedentary work
• Skills:
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills; Strong data management and analysis skills to identify trends that translate to sound business opportunities; Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects/requests simultaneously; Strong teamwork/customer service skills.