Business Analyst

The salary range for this position is $35.38 - $44.23 (Hourly Rate)

Placement within the salary range is dependent on several factors such as relevant work experience and internal equity. For positions represented by a labor union, placement within the salary range is guided by the rules outlined in the collective bargaining agreement.

We offer a wide range of benefits that provide employees with tools and resources to improve their physical, emotional, and financial well-being while providing protection for unexpected life events. Please visit our Benefits section located at jobs.nm.org/benefits to learn more.

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Remote work from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Iowa, or Ohio

Description

The Business Analyst reflects the mission, vision, and values of NM, adheres to the organization's Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program, and complies with all relevant policies, procedures, guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

This position is responsible for leading the development of functional and non-functional business requirements, use cases, and process flows. The Business Analyst will facilitate and capture requirement elicitation by working with the Business Operations to understand business strategy and translate into requirements and/or use cases, ensuring Business Analysis processes, tools, and templates are being utilized across projects.

Responsibilities:

• Must be able to demonstrate ability to fulfill responsibilities of the Business Analyst Associate
• Identify and document emerging business requirements
• Intelligently question business partner and knowledge worker preferences to identify unique value drivers
• Properly prioritizes business lines and enterprise demands
• Accurately translates business requirements into functionality
• Manages requirements to meet performance expectations
• Understands industry-specific trends that impact the organization
• Clearly articulates benefits in business language
• Manage ambiguity and create accurate project effort estimates
• Accurately quantifies project-specific risks through the development lifecycle
• Identifies solution interdependencies
• Stays abreast of and creates awareness of technology developments related to business requirements
• Identify commonalities and suggests a consistent approach across projects in the absence of standards
• Guide team decision making
• Provide stakeholders with accurate view of challenges
• Effectively navigate conflict between multiple stakeholders
• Shares best practices, process, and environmental knowledge

Qualifications

Required:

• 2 years of Information Technology, business analysis specific experience
• Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Access, Exchange, Excel, Project and VISIO
• Knowledge of system architecture and application portfolio
• Knowledge of requirements management and/or prototyping tools (ALM, Jira, RallyDev, qTest, iRise)
• Ability to simplify & standardize complex concepts and/or processes
• Project management skills
• Requirements definition and management through different delivery methodologies
• SDLC, Iterative, Agile, OWF, and /or Scrum development
• Problem solving and/or analytical thinking
• Possess ability to manage workload, and manage multiple priorities, as applicable
• Excellent written and verbal communications

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Technology or related IT field
• Business process management and modeling
• BA Certification
• Experience working for Healthcare Provider
• Epic Certification

Equal Opportunity

Northwestern Medicine is an equal opportunity employer (disability, VETS) and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation or any other protected status.

Background Check

Northwestern Medicine conducts a background check that includes criminal history on newly hired team members and, at times, internal transfers. If you are offered a position with us, you will be required to complete an authorization and disclosure form that gives Northwestern Medicine permission to run the background check.  Results are evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and we follow all local, state, and federal laws, including the Illinois Health Care Worker Background Check Act.

Artificial Intelligence Disclosure

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools may be used in some portions of the candidate review process for this position, however, all employment decisions will be made by a person. 

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits that provide employees with tools and resources to improve their physical, emotional, and financial well-being while providing protection for unexpected life events. Please visit our Benefits section to learn more.

Sign-on Bonus Eligibility (if sign-on bonus offered for position): Internal employees and rehires who left Northwestern Medicine within 1 year are not eligible for the sign on bonus. Exception: New graduate internal employees seeking their first licensed clinical position at NM may be eligible depending upon the job family.