Business Analyst Jobs

Business Analyst

Lead I - Business Analysis

Who We Are

Advantasure is a growing company and a member of the UST HealthProof family, Advantasure champions innovative solutions with an eye on the future—providing health plans with the flexibility to adapt to a changing regulatory environment and evolving business needs. Leveraging the industry’s leading experts in government-sponsored health plans, Advantasure offers solutions for administrative cost management, quality patient outcomes and experiences, enrollment growth, risk adjustment and quality and provider engagement initiatives.

We achieve this mission together through teamwork, communication, collaboration, and focus. Our employees are our greatest assets, and we invite you to apply to be a part of our journey toward making a difference in healthcare in the United States.

You Are

The Business Analyst is responsible for ensuring that business requirements are documented, and every functional/business consideration is identified before implementing each project. This position must clearly understand and review/confirm with the client and internal departments before functional requirements are finalized - alternative approaches are suggested where viable. The Business Analyst is also responsible for functional requirements that are completely documented and understood, along with innovative solutions with best practices identified and explored for most prevalent use cases.

The Opportunity

WORKING CONDITIONS: Work is performed remotely.

• Creates functional specifications. Collects, understands, and transmits business requirements for projects and translates into functional specifications, database designs, and detailed test plans.
• Assists in the definition of business cases and Cost Benefit Analyses that effectively inform prioritization decisions.
• Contributes to status and management reports as required.
• Ability to learn the resolution of technological challenges such as, workflow, scheduling, testing processes and procedures.
• Manages development life cycle.
• Works with client business to understand requirements. Partners with clients to gather all requirements to formulate business process specifications and translates those into application functionality, understanding the value proposition(s) of the project and deciding when to advocate and when to compromise to arrive at mutually acceptable solutions.
• Partner with internal team members to lead IT activities for small to medium business initiatives using appropriate project management methodology
• Assists in the leading organization and execution of user acceptance testing.
• Manages projects and processes as required.
• Works with technical staff to translate requirements. Assists the technical team in translating application functionality into application architecture and the production of system functionality documents.
• Works with product team to stay abreast of overall product strategy, roadmap(s), and release management processes.
• Communicates business directives, goals, and needs to the technical team and serves as a client interface for managing user expectations and client satisfaction.
• Builds relationships with key business unit resources to gain understanding of overall business unit direction.
• Support capacity planning to optimize the effectiveness of the department.
• Participates in configuration changes in systems.

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

What You Need

• Ability to interact with clients in difficult situations.
• 8 years’ experience as a Business analyst in healthcare or health insurance, Medicare, and commercial business lines.
• Ability to convey pertinent information to technical team.
• Ability to develop workflow and business rules diagrams in Visio.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field. Relevant combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of degree. Continuous learning, as defined by the Company’s learning philosophy, is required. Certification or progress toward certification is highly preferred and encouraged.
• Ability to work with and empower others on a collaborative basis to ensure success of unit team.
• Ability to learn how to create functional documents such as requirement documents, statements of work, proposals, use cases and other technical documentation standards.
• Expertise in gathering requirements, designing products (database and UI), and achieving high quality results within specified timeframes.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to solve practical problems in potentially chaotic environments
• Ability to learn the resolution of technological challenges such as, workflow, scheduling, testing processes and procedures.
• Ability to be innovative, creative, and think outside of the box when presented with roadblocks.
• Ability to learn how to define all levels of business and technology requirements.
• Ability to support projects using a variety of project management methodologies (bi-modal)
• Knowledge of the current state of the IT industry related to requirements gathering.
• Knowledge of Business Models, Process Models, Data Models, Workflow Models, and Object Models as needed.
• Demonstrated excellence in a rapid product developing environment.
• Ability to understand impacts to other areas and project inter-dependencies.
• Knowledge of application of departmental procedures processes and workflows.
• Functional and technical writing skills.
• Strong presentation skills and analytical/problem solving skills.
• Ability to learn how to translate business goals into IT demand.
• Knowledge of project management tools and processes.
• Ability to work in both a structured and unstructured environment.

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience.  As required by local law, UST HealthProof provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York City or Washington as set forth below.  

Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for Role

Remote: $68,000 - $102,000

Our associates are eligible for employee stock options, 401K matching, and covered from day 1 for paid vacation and sick time, and healthcare, dental, vision, life and disability insurance benefits.

What We Believe

We’re proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST and its subsidiaries since the beginning. Since day one, we’ve been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it's those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone to champion diversity and inclusion and place people at the center of everything we do.

Humility: We will listen, learn, be empathetic, and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.

Humanity: Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Integrity: We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

UST HealthProof is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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