Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst

Northside Hospital is award-winning, state-of-the-art, and continually growing. Constantly expanding the quality and reach of our care to our patients and communities creates even more opportunity for the best healthcare professionals in Atlanta and beyond. Discover all the possibilities of a career at Northside today.

The Senior Business Intelligence Analyst for Financial Systems Integration is responsible for end-user deployment of data using a variety of datasets and tools including Northside Hospital’s financial data warehouse, SQL / Aginity, SQL Server Reporting Services, Excel and Spotfire.  This position will build the business intelligence layer to deliver reporting and analytical tools to analysts and executive management.  The analyst has expert knowledge of the capabilities of and data within the data warehouse to effectively drive business decisions by providing quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights and trends to decision makers.  Analyst will design and develop business intelligence reporting tools and train end-users and other business intelligence analysts.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Collects, aggregates and analyzes data from multiple internal and external sources to drive insights into business performance, working with end-user analysts and management.
2. Produces actionable reports that show key performance indicators, identifies areas of improvement into current operations and displays root case analysis of problems.
3. Uses analytics and metrics to improve processes, identify risks and provides data-driven forecasts.  Communicates findings and insight to stakeholders and provides business strategy recommendations for optimizing business performance.
4. Trains end-users on utilization of reporting and analytical tools. Also trains other Business Intelligence Analysts on best practices.
5. Assists with data integrity and data balancing of data warehouse and reporting/business intelligence environment.  Provides guidance and oversight of data dictionary and reference tables to ensure they are current to support organizational reporting needs.
6. Creates and provides documentation to support analytics, information reporting and overall system operations.
7. Identifies and assists in the evaluation of new technology for the Finance division.  Identifies opportunities and recommendations for process improvement within the Finance Division.
8. Assists with special systems and analytics projects for the Finance Division.

REQUIRED:

1. B.S. degree in Business or Health Administration, Computer Science, Finance.
2. Ability to quickly learn and synthesize new technologies with existing technologies, self-disciplined and works under minimal supervision with wide latitude for independent judgment.
3. Proficient in advanced techniques of Standard Query Language (SQL), MS Excel and MS Access.
4. Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems with translating technical skills into the conceptualized end-product.
5. Excellent analytical and communication skills.
6. Minimum 6-9 years of experience delivering end-user reporting/analytics.

PREFERRED:

1. 3+ years of experience in a healthcare environment.
2. 2+ years of clinical/financial analytics experience preferred.
3. Demonstrated knowledge or training of SQL Server Reporting Services, TIBCO Spotfire or other reporting and Business Intelligence software.
4. Demonstrated knowledge of industry leading tools for data visualization, predictive and prescriptive analytics (such as SPSS) and data mining required to thrive in an evolving market.