Business Analyst

IT Healthcare Consultant-Business Analyst (BA) - Advanced to assist with the implementation of small to large projects

• Serves as a liaison between the business programs community and the IT organization to provide technical solutions to meet user needs.
  
• Possesses expertise in the business unit(s) they support, as well as an understanding of the IT organization's systems and capabilities.
  
• Analyzes business partners' operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions.
  
• Assists in the business process redesign and documentation as needed for new technology.
  
• Conducts efficient requirement gathering sessions with multiple stakeholders to capture business requirements.
  
• Translates high-level business requirements into functional specifications for the IT organization and manages changes to such specifications. Educates the IT organization on the direction of the business.
  
• Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation.
  
• Possesses an understanding of technological trends and uses this knowledge to bring solutions to business units supported to enhance the enterprise's competitive edge.
  
• Requirements development execution, including the elicitation, analysis, specification, and validation.
  
• Documenting and analyzing agency business processes and recommending improvements.
  
• Documenting and analyzing data requirements and relationships.
  
• Participating in the requirements management processes, including change control, version control, tracking and status reporting, and traceability.
  
• Providing requirements interpretation and guidance to technical and test teams.
  
• Proactively identifying risks, issues, and action items leading to possible solutions.
  
• Interacting with internal and external organizations (i.e., vendors, State and Federal government agencies, State providers and beneficiaries, and other stakeholders).
  
• May make recommendations for buy versus build decisions.
  
• Research business rules, requirements, and models.
  
• Maintain business rules, requirements, and models in a repository.
  
• Other project-related duties.
  

Requirements

Required Skills:

• 1 year of business analysis experience with IBM Cram software
  

• 1 year of experience in government IT projects as a business analyst or related duties
  

• 1 year?s experience eliciting, mining, and documenting business rules and processes
  

• 2 years of Medicaid Eligibility or other healthcare insurance experience
  

Preferred Skills:

• General Subject Matter Expertise as it relates to Medicaid or other healthcare insurance experience (project or operations)
  
• MMS experience (project or operations)
  
• Microsoft Office Project/Project Server
  

Additional Skills:

• Superb written and oral communication skills, including the ability to write requirements and Use Cases. Very Strong proficiency in English is required.
  
• Experience and ability to obtain business processes and requirements information by interviewing business personnel and by mining laws, regulations, and policy documents.
  
• Knowledge of formal business process documentation.
  
• Understanding of business modeling techniques, including the use of graphical process flow software
  
• Ability to effectively communicate to executive management, line management, project management, and team members.
  

Benefits