Senior Business Analyst - Healthcare Financial Analytics

Department: Jackson Memorial Hospital Address: 1611 NW 12th Ave, Miami, Florida, 33136 Shift details: Full-Time, Days Why Jackson:

Jackson Memorial Hospital is the flagship hospital for Jackson Health System and it has been a beacon of medical excellence and community care for more than a century. Throughout its rich and storied history, Jackson Memorial – located in the heart of the City of Miami – has been ground zero for some of the world’s greatest medical breakthroughs and important moments in South Florida. We’ve grown into one of the nation’s largest public hospitals, and one of the few that is also a world-class academic medical center with a proud mission and proven success. Jackson Memorial is an accredited, tertiary teaching hospital with 1,500 licensed beds, where nearly every medical specialty is provided by some of the world’s most skilled and highly regarded multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals. Job Summary Senior Business Analyst is responsible for producing comprehensive reports of a variety of large-scale projects, and drill-down analysis that measures utilization, cost, ROI, trend, and other utilization metrics. The incumbent may attend management meetings and may be involved directly or indirectly around confidential management decisions. Position requires exercise of independent judgment.

Duties and Responsibilities

Provides strategic business analysis services to key stakeholders to gain in-depth understanding of business strategy, processes, services, roadmap and the context in which the business operates. Reviews and assigns business processes from end-to-end to identify and address operational, financial and technological risks. Produces standardized complex and comprehensive utilization, cost, ROI, and other utilization analysis and metrics to support the developed dashboard. Creates companion ad-hoc and drill-down analysis for standardized utilization and cost reporting as required. Produces identification and stratification of chronic and no-chronic disease populations via claims, pharmacy, and other administrative data sources that supports departmental utilization, analysis and measurement activities. Develops program feasibility/opportunity assessments, pre-contract feasibility/opportunity assessments, and works with contracting staff to develop performance metrics and definitions for contracts; measures performance of programs against contractual metrics. Uses SAS, SQL, other data extraction/manipulation tools, Excel and Access to extract, manipulate, and process data, and to analyze and report on large data set. Uses other Microsoft products to develop presentations suitable for department administrators, physician groups, hospital administration and others. Provides project level leadership and has ownership of assigned subject areas. Performs related duties as required.

Experience

Generally requires 5 to 7 years of related experience. Must have prior healthcare and finance experience.

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field is required.

Skill Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work accurately while meeting multiple deadlines. Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form. Ability to handle difficult and stressful situations with critical thinking and professional composure. Ability to understand and follow instructions. Ability to exercise sound and independent judgment. Knowledge and skill in use of job appropriate technology and software applications.

Credentials

Valid license or certification is required as needed, based on the job or specialty.

Unit Specific Credential

Working Conditions Physical Requirements

- Job function is sedentary in nature and requires sitting for extended periods of time. Function may require frequent standing or walking. Must be able to lift or carry objects weighing up to 20 pounds. Jobs in this group are required to have close visual acuity to perform activities such as: extended use of computers, preparing and analyzing data and analytics, and other components of a typical office environment. Additional information and provision requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by the home unit/department in collaboration with the Reasonable Accommodations Committee (RAC).

Environmental Conditions

- Jobs in this group are required to function in a fast paced environment with occasional high pressure or emergent and stressful situations. Frequent interaction with a diverse population including team members, providers, patients, insurance companies and other members of the public. Function is subject to inside environmental conditions, with occasional outdoor exposures. Possible exposure to various environments such as: communicable diseases, toxic substances, medicinal preparations and other conditions common to a hospital and medical office environment. May wear Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) such as gloves or a mask when exposed to hospital environment outside of office. Reasonable accommodations can be made to enable people with disabilities to perform the described essential functions. Additional information and provision requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by the home unit/department in collaboration with the Reasonable Accommodations Committee (RAC).