Business Analysis

Join a dynamic healthcare analytics team as a Business Analyst supporting reporting, data, and technology initiatives that help drive meaningful business outcomes. This role is ideal for an independent, detail-oriented professional who enjoys turning complex needs into clear requirements, coordinating across stakeholders, and helping stabilize and advance active products and projects.
Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis efforts for healthcare analytics and reporting products from intake through requirements, testing, implementation, and support transition.
• Facilitate discussions with business and technical partners to translate needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and documentation.
• Assess newly transitioned products by capturing key details such as purpose, stakeholders, commitments, support approach, dependencies, gaps, and open issues.
• Coordinate work across business stakeholders, product owners, developers, data engineers, data scientists, project managers, and offshore delivery teams.
• Manage multiple priorities at once and help keep work aligned with business impact, capacity, and delivery timelines.
• Track decisions, action items, owners, blockers, dependencies, and next steps to keep work organized and visible.
• Use SQL to support basic data research, validate reporting outcomes, and investigate discrepancies with technical teams.
• Support user acceptance testing, data validation, defect triage, stakeholder signoff, and production readiness activities.
• Provide clear, concise status updates for leadership that summarize progress, risks, decisions needed, and upcoming priorities.

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, technical business analysis, product analysis, or a related role.
• 3+ years supporting analytics, reporting, business intelligence, data, or technology initiatives.
• Experience working independently with limited direction in a fast-moving, evolving environment.
• Strong requirements-gathering and documentation skills, including user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, and data requirements.
• Working knowledge of SQL and the ability to write or modify basic queries.
• Experience partnering with both business and technical teams across multiple workstreams.
• Comfort managing stakeholders, priorities, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Strong facilitation, organization, communication, and follow-up skills.
• Experience supporting testing, data validation, and issue resolution.

Preferred Skills

• Background in healthcare analytics, reporting, quality, member or patient experience, Medicare, Stars, CAHPS, HOS, pharmacy, or provider reporting.
• Experience with Power BI or a similar business intelligence platform.
• Exposure to Snowflake, Streamlit, Rally, Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable tools.
• Understanding of data ingestion, data lineage, source-to-target mapping, refresh dependencies, and quality assurance.
• Experience stabilizing an active project or taking over ongoing work.
• Experience assessing newly assigned products and documenting roadmaps, support models, risks, and dependencies.
• Familiarity with portfolio prioritization, roadmap planning, intake management, or product ownership.
• Ability to establish BA standards, templates, processes, or governance.
• Comfort communicating with both executive stakeholders and detailed technical teams.

Horizontal is committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive environment where different perspectives are valued and everyone has the opportunity to contribute and succeed. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and welcome applications from individuals who can bring fresh ideas, collaboration, and a shared commitment to equity and respect.
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