Analyst, Business Systems Exempt

Lifepoint Health•Brentwood, TN

5d•Remote

About The Position

The Business Analyst plays a critical role in the success of the ITS Financial Systems team. The right candidate will contribute to the team’s success with their strong abilities to analyze, design, test, and support complex business solutions for Lifepoint’s revenue cycle business teams. The successful analyst will also exhibit strong interdepartmental relationship-building to foster teamwork between our team, other ITS teams, and the business units that we support.

Requirements

Minimum 5+ years’ experience required in business analysis, quality assurance or software implementation
Minimum 3 years’ experience in revenue cycle operations, preferably in the healthcare industry.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or other equivalent degree.
Builds Strategic Working Relationships – Develops and uses collaborative relationships among team, departments, and lines of business to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.
Proven communications skills – Clearly conveys information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
Learns Quickly – Ability to “Learn on the Fly” when facing new problems. Quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure.
Productivity/Managing Work - Effectively manages time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently.
Adaptability – Maintains effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work tasks or the work environment, adjusting effectively to work with new structures, processes, or requirements.

Nice To Haves

Prefer a candidate with hands-on revenue cycle operations experience
MBA is desirable.

Responsibilities

Understands Lifepoint’s Information Systems strategy and how it supports the overall business strategy.
Exhibits expert knowledge of the business areas being supported.
Plays a key role in advocating business and user requirements in support of Lifepoint’s business goals.
Uses Lifepoint’s Information Systems standards to apply advanced technology and tools in the analysis, design, implementation, and support of ITS business solutions by successfully:
Collaborating with business leadership to understand issues and analyze business needs.
Designing solutions and fully documenting system requirements to meet business objectives.
Working with Lifepoint infrastructure teams to implement and automate developed solutions.
Supporting production applications (on-call problem resolution), as needed.
Acts as an advisor to business teams in the design or selection of new application systems.
Collaborates with external vendors as needed to understand the functionality of potential business solutions and to identify implementation requirements. Works with vendors and business partners to test systems as appropriate.
May be asked to train users on application functionality or provide on-site at-the-elbow support as needed.
Approximately 70% of time should be spent performing systems analysis activities – eliciting, documenting and refining requirements, testing application updates, and working with implementation teams on software implementations or conversions. Remaining time should be spent on end user support activities.