Business Analyst Lead

It's more than a career, it's a calling. IL-REMOTE Worker Type: PRN Job Highlights: Lead meaningful change by transforming complex data into strategic business solutions. As a Business Analyst Lead, you'll partner with leaders and stakeholders to drive process improvements, optimize operations, and deliver insights that support key organizational decisions, making a direct impact on business performance and outcomes. Scheduling & Logistics: The position is fully remote. Work hours will vary between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. The role will require approximately 15–20 hours per week, predominantly during the work week. There is no on-call requirement. The selected candidate must live in one of the following states. AL, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MI, MO, NC, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, WV, or WI. Preferred Skills: Advanced Excel skills Advanced PowerPoint skills Strong communication skills Ability to translate complex business elements into easy to understand communication Pay Range: $45.70 - $68.55 Pay Rate Type: Hourly SSM Health values the skills and talents that each team member brings to our organization. Compensation for this role is based on a variety of components including relevant experience, labor market, and other qualifications. The posted pay range for this position is what SSM Health reasonably expects, in good faith, to offer based on the circumstances at the time of posting. SSM Health may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law. Job Summary: Supports business strategies and utilizes facilitation skills to elicit requirements and business needs from cross functional teams across all levels of the organization, including vendors. May be required to lead a team of business analysts and guide their day to day activities. Defines solutions, provides training to business users, and acts as a sprint manager to ensure activities are completed in a timely fashion. Mentors junior members of the team on business analyst and sprint best practices. Ensures all documentation and process standards meet industry best practice guidelines. Provides business process mapping services and ensures all requirements are defined well enough for prioritization and execution on requests. Leads the request intake management process and represents activity requests with the management prioritization group for resource alignment. Establishes new projects/sprints and provides status updates to management and executive leadership. Job Responsibilities and Requirements: PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Develops specifications through participation in project teams or meetings with internal/external customers for smaller projects and/or ad hoc requests. Partners with customers, peers and cross functional teams to discover needs; and proactively offers options and solutions. Interprets data, identifies trends, establishes/utilizes benchmark data, creates data visualization and interpretation of information. Presents information to customers in clear, concise, and useful formats. Leverages analytic techniques necessary to meet needs of business users supported by the analytic team. Translates customer requirements into project descriptions, analytic and data specifications, and development of project timelines for mid-to-large sized projects or ongoing initiatives including support of cross-ministry and/or system projects. Produces well-written analytic executive summaries appropriate for presentation to senior leadership. Prepares sprint cycles and sprint stories. Participates in sprint planning sessions. Leads / participates in work prioritization sessions. Influences department strategy on business analysis and other functional areas. Owns strategic projects autonomously. Coaches and develops talent. Leads junior talent in delivering on business-critical initiatives. Interacts with executives from multiple entities and in different contexts, cogently presenting politically sensitive information in furtherance of system goals. Applies globally proficient understanding of insurance and managed care, health care delivery, and financial accounting necessary to support analyses and to provide actionable information used to support business decisions. Demonstrates thorough understanding of organizational operations, capabilities, goals and strategies necessary to support system-wide analytics and reporting activity. Performs other duties as assigned. EDUCATION Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience EXPERIENCE Ten years’ experience PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0-25 lbs. Frequent sitting, standing, walking, reaching and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements. Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors. Frequent use of hearing and speech to share information through oral communication. Ability to hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc. Frequent keyboard use/data entry. Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting and gripping. Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25-50 lbs. Rare climbing. REQUIRED PROFESSIONAL LICENSE AND/OR CERTIFICATIONS None Department: 8753000033 System Pharmacy Work Shift: Variable Shift (United States of America) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 0 Benefits: SSM Health values our exceptional employees by offering a comprehensive benefits package to fit their needs. Paid Parental Leave : we offer eligible team members one week of paid parental leave for newborns or newly adopted children (pro-rated based on FTE). Flexible Payment Options: our voluntary benefit offered through DailyPay offers eligible hourly team members instant access to their earned, unpaid base pay (fees may apply) before payday. Upfront Tuition Coverage : we provide upfront tuition coverage through FlexPath Funded for eligible team members. Explore All Benefits SSM Health is an equal opportunity employer. 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