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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 the most prevalent use cases.

The Opportunity:

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

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 be innovative, creative, and think outside of the box when presented with roadblocks.
• Ability to understand impacts on other areas and project interdependencies.
• Ability to develop workflow and business rules diagrams in Visio.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills.
• Expertise in gathering requirements, designing products (database and UI), and achieving high-quality results within specified timeframes.
• Demonstrated excellence in a rapid product-developing environment.
• A relevant combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Knowledge of the current state of the IT industry related to requirements gathering.
• Continuous learning, as defined by the Company’s learning philosophy, is required.
• Ability to learn how to create functional documents such as requirement documents, statements of work, proposals, use cases, and other technical documentation standards.
• Ability to interact with clients in difficult situations.
• Ability to work with and empower others on a collaborative basis to ensure the success of the unit team.
• Certification or progress toward certification is highly preferred and encouraged.
• Ability to work in both a structured and unstructured environment.
• Ability to learn how to define all levels of business and technology requirements.
• Ability to convey pertinent information to the technical team.
• Ability to learn the resolution of technical challenges such as workflow, scheduling, testing processes, and procedures.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• Ability to solve practical problems in potentially chaotic environments
• Ability to support projects using a variety of project management methodologies (bi-modal)
• Functional and technical writing skills.
• Ability to learn how to translate business goals into IT demand.
• Knowledge of project management tools and processes.
• Knowledge of the application of departmental procedures processes and workflows.
• Strong presentation skills and analytical/problem-solving skills.
• 4-8 years of experience as a Business analyst in healthcare or health insurance, Medicare, and commercial business lines.
• Knowledge of Business Models, Process Models, Data Models, Workflow Models, and Object Models as needed.