Business Intelligence Analyst

Overview

This position is Hybrid; some work remote, some work on-site. Local to the area or willing to relocate is required.

Top candidates for this role may have a financial background (Financial Analytics, Cost Accounting, etc.), and experience with analytics, SQL development, and data visualization.

As a patient-focused organization, University of Utah Health exists to enhance the health and well-being of people through patient care, research and education. Success in this mission requires a culture of collaboration, excellence, leadership, and respect. University of Utah Health seeks staff that are committed to the values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality and trust that are integral to our mission.

EO/AA

• Participates within a multidisciplinary team across multiple locations.
• Translates business needs into technical solutions.
• Serve as a liaison between the end users and business intelligence project team.
• Collects and coordinates business requirements for analytic and reporting.
• Interviews end users to determine requirements for data, reports, analyses, metadata, training, service levels, data quality and performance.
• Works with data warehouse architects to translate requirements into technical specifications.
• Works with end users and business analysts to ensure tight fit between BI environment and business requirements.
• Translate abstract business questions and requirements into reports, views, and BI query objects.
• Understands BI tool architecture, functions, features and customizes BI tools to meet user needs.
• Provides data and financial analysis to clinical program, hospital and health sciences management, and leadership.
• Performs program and operations analysis on cost, reimbursement, profitability of service lines, programs, and procedures.
• Analyzes and audits cost data, patient level financial data, and other statistics.
• Supports and potentially leads, performance improvement initiatives.

• Strong conceptual, communications, and technical skills.
• Detailed knowledge of variety of business processes and how these generate and use specific data sets.
• Experience using data warehouse or analytical tools for business purposes.
• Strong interpersonal and communications skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements.
• Ability to work and effectively communicate with technical people, operational leaders, and administrators.
• Knowledge of BI tool architectures, functions, and features.
• Knowledge of SQL and relational and multidimensional database designs.
• Understanding of which data is used by which business processes and what the data means in the context of specific processes.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to apply creativity to analytics.
• Provides data and financial analysis to clinical program, hospital and health sciences management, and leadership.
• Performs program and operations analysis on cost, reimbursement, profitability of service lines, programs, and procedures.
• Analyzes and audits cost data, patient level financial data, and other statistics.
• Supports and potentially leads, performance improvement initiatives.

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Finance, Accounting, a related field, or the equivalency.
• Two years of experience in a related field.

Preferred

• Financial Background (Financial Analytics, Cost Accounting, etc.).
• Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or the equivalency.
• Experience with BI tools and SQL and relational and multidimensional database designs.

Employee must be able to meet the following requirements with or without an accommodation.

• This is a sedentary position that may exert up to 10 pounds and may lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. This position involves sitting most of the time and is not exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

Color Determination, Listening, Manual Dexterity, Near Vision, Sitting, Speaking, Standing, Walking