Complete Onsite in Westlake, Ohio - Business analyst with healthcare claims experience - 12 months contract to Hire
Experience with providers and/or payers for claims and payment processing.
5+ years of experience in a Business Analyst or related role.
High level of proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.
Working knowledge and experience with SQL databases required.
Excellent work ethic, leadership skills, interpersonal and organizational skills.
Strong analysis, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, results-oriented environment.
Ability to work independently in solving business problems.
Demonstrates a high level organizational skill with the ability to prioritize and manage change.
Undergraduate degree inBusiness or equivalent work experience.
Experience and knowledge of Agile Methodologies such as KANBAN and Scrum is preferred.
Duties and responsibilities
Provides the link between the technical and business views of the system by ensuring that the technical solutions being developed will satisfy the needs of the business.
Ensures high level designs including architecture requirements are accurately documented and map to approved requirements.
Partner with sponsors, stakeholders, and IT to facilitate, define and document relevant business processes, gaining an understanding of the needs, measures, and risks & controls for the improvement area.
Collaborate with, and motivate a cross-functional team of business analysts, developers, testers and others to develop, execute and release in alignment with program and/or product roadmaps.
Assist with prioritizing and assessing the impact of all work items, such as new features, defects, etc.
Review, and when appropriate, accept and prioritize feedback and new requirements from stakeholders.
Review and accept or decline output of development to ensure specified acceptance criteria have been completed.
Ensure development and QA teams understand requirements prior to development. Answer questions and support team throughout development and testing
Assist with project level plans related to schedule, scope and resources.
Assists in developing training documentation and proactive identification of additional documentation needs.
Analyzing a broadly-defined area and using functional decomposition to define high-level epics and stories to create a well-organized, value-driven framework to provide the required business value in the Product Backlog.
Writing individual stories that are very clear and concise and are easy to understand and implement by the development team.
Identifying related user stories and epics, grouping them into themes as necessary and documenting the inter-relationship and associated business process flows as necessary.
Must be able to collaboratively work within multiple evolving development methodologies including iterative Agile and sequential Waterfall projects.