Lead Business Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +17 more states.

📋 Description

• Assist in formulating business strategies while gathering requirements and understanding business needs from various cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders.

• Supervise business analysts and provide guidance on daily operations as necessary.

• Identify solutions, deliver training to business users, and serve as a sprint manager.

• Coach junior team members on best practices in business analysis and sprint methodologies.

• Ensure that documentation and process standards comply with industry best practices.

• Facilitate business process mapping and articulate requirements for prioritization and execution.

• Oversee request intake management and represent activity requests to the management prioritization group.

• Initiate projects and sprints, providing status updates to management and executive leadership.

• Develop specifications for smaller projects and ad hoc requests.

• Identify customer needs and propose various options and solutions.

• Analyze data, spot trends, utilize benchmark data, and create data visualizations.

• Present information in clear, concise, and useful formats.

• Convert customer requirements into project descriptions, analytical and data specifications, and timelines for mid-to-large projects and ongoing initiatives.

• Create analytic executive summaries for senior leadership.

• Prepare sprint cycles and stories, and engage in sprint planning.

• Lead or participate in sessions for work prioritization.

• Influence departmental strategy in business analysis and related functional areas.

• Independently manage strategic projects.

• Mentor and develop talent, guiding junior members on business-critical initiatives.

• Present politically sensitive information to executives across multiple entities.

• Utilize knowledge of insurance and managed care, healthcare delivery, and financial accounting to support analyses and business decisions.

• Assist with system-wide analytics and reporting activities.

• Execute additional duties as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• A decade of experience in the field.

• Proficient in advanced Excel.

• Proficient in advanced PowerPoint.

• Capable of translating complex business concepts into simple, understandable communication.

• Experience in business analysis, requirements elicitation, and business process mapping.

• Skills in data interpretation, trend identification, benchmarking, and data visualization.

• Development of analytic and data specifications.

• Experience with sprint planning, sprint cycles, and sprint story preparation.

• Knowledge of insurance and managed care, healthcare delivery, and financial accounting.

• Understanding of organizational operations, capabilities, goals, and strategies.

• Ability to present information to senior leadership and executives.

• Frequent keyboard use/data entry required.

• Capability to meet the outlined physical requirements, including occasional lifting/pushing/pulling of objects weighing 25–50 lbs.

• No professional license or certification is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid parental leave: one week for eligible team members for newborns or newly adopted children, pro-rated based on FTE.

• Flexible payment options through DailyPay for eligible hourly team members, allowing instant access to earned, unpaid base pay before payday; fees may apply.

• Upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members.

• Comprehensive benefits package.