Business Intelligence Analysts

Overview

Open Date 01/22/2026
Requisition Number PRN
44083B
Job Title Business Intelligence Analysts
Working Title Business Intelligence Analysts
Career Progression Track P00
Track Level P3 - Career
FLSA Code Professional
Patient Sensitive Job Code? No
Standard Hours per Week 40
Full Time or Part Time? Full Time
Shift Day
VP Area U of U Health - Academics
Department 01488 - Health Research Admin Office
Location Campus
City Salt Lake City, UT
Type of Recruitment External Posting
Pay Rate Range $65,000 - $90,000
Close Date 03/22/2026
Priority Review Date Note - Posting may close at any time

Job Summary
The University of Utah Health Research Office is a dynamic and high-functioning team environment seeking a seasoned professional to provide strategic financial and business intelligence analysis and in-depth reporting oversight for the Executive Director, Administrative Director, and to other leaders in the Health Sciences Center to improve mission decision-making. Under minimal supervision, this position supports the Health Research Office, the Chief System Research Officer, and the mission broadly.

The position requires strong interpersonal, strategic thinking, technical, and communication skills; a deep knowledge of BI tool architectures, functions, and features; SQL and relational and multidimensional database designs. Further, a strong understanding of what data is used by business processes and what the data means in the context of specific processes, and the ability to apply creativity to analytics, are key skills for the position.

Job Title Note Business Intelligence Analyst, III

Responsibilities

• Drive business decisions by providing quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers. Collect, aggregate, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources to drive insights into business performance. Produce actionable reports that show key performance indicators, identify areas of improvement into current operations, and display root cause analysis of problems.
• Use analytics and metrics to improve processes and provide data-driven forecasts of potential costs, risks, and profits of new business initiatives.
• Communicate findings and insight to stakeholders and provide business strategy recommendations for optimizing business performance.
• Provide reporting solutions and respond to ad-hoc report requests across multiple business areas.
• May participate in the design and development of business intelligence reporting tools.
• Conducts complex, important work under minimal supervision and with wide latitude for independent judgment.
• Prepare and present information for decision-making to leadership.
• Plan and conduct projects and adhere to timelines to meet milestones.
• Perform technical tasks to advance projects:
  Work and effectively communicate with technical colleagues; collect and coordinate business requirements for analytics and reporting; interview end users to determine requirements for data, reports, analyses, metadata, training, data quality and performance; determine statistical methods used to analyze data.
• Track and summarize information related to institutional performance against established research benchmarks and metrics.
• Establish and refine business processes for mission reporting and evaluation.
• Provide financial oversight for research-related units, as requested.
• Leads the preparation and evaluation of special projects.

Minimum Qualifications

EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT: 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Business Intelligence Analyst, III:
Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) + 6 years or a master’s (or equivalency) + 4 years of directly related work experience.

Preferences

• Masters degree in related field is preferred.
• Prior grants and contracts or research experience at the University of Utah or other academic institution is preferred.
• Experience with Excel, Statistical Software, BI Applications, and SQL. Knowledge of SQL and relational and multidimensional database designs.

Type Benefited Staff

Additional Information

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