Business Analyst - AZ
About The Position
RISE is seeking a strategic, business-minded finance partner to drive insight, accountability, and informed decision-making across service lines. The Business Analyst goes beyond routine reporting and variance explanations by investigating performance trends, anticipating issues, challenging assumptions, and translating financial and business data into actionable recommendations. The role partners closely with operations and leadership as an internal consultant, helping evaluate scenarios, risks, and opportunities to improve profitability, efficiency, and scalability. This is an office-based position at RISE’s Mesa, Arizona office. The standard schedule is Monday through Friday, with potential flexibility to work from home one to two days per week. Quarterly travel to other offices and travel to office and training-site locations may be required. The work is performed in office and offsite training environments. The position requires a background check and driving-record check, and the employee must be at least 18 years old.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field.
- At least 4 years of financial or business analysis experience.
- Practical ability to apply Microsoft Office tools.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including pivot tables, V/H lookup, IF functions, Index, conditional formatting, management of multiple spreadsheets, and creation of interactive dashboards.
- Strong financial modeling, data analysis, and spreadsheet skills.
- Oral and written communication skills.
- Proactive problem assessment and ability to work independently to complete projects.
- Interpersonal, customer-service, and organizational skills, with attention to detail.
- Flexibility and ability to adapt to changing business and training needs.
- Critical thinking, teamwork, mission orientation, ethical conduct, and reliability.
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- At least 18 years of age and ability to pass a criminal background check and driving-record check.
- Ability to perform computer-based tasks, communicate with a variety of people in person, by phone, and by email, work under stressful conditions and handle multiple assignments, work a flexible schedule depending on program and department needs, travel to office and training locations, and lift up to 10 pounds.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree or MBA.
- Power BI skills.
- Familiarity with G Suite, DCI, Paycom, Therap, and care management systems.
- Macro/VBA skills.
Responsibilities
- Analyze financial data, including revenue, expenses, profitability, and key performance indicators, and identify trends and areas for improvement.
- Develop, implement, and manage seasonal budgets.
- Prepare forecasting and decision-making materials, including mock budgets, cost-benefit analyses, and opportunity-cost reports.
- Analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
- Translate business data into clear, accessible information that improves corporate processes.
- Review business models and practices and propose operational changes to improve efficiency and reduce spending.
- Meet regularly with departments to discuss program performance and metrics.
- Build automated reporting tools that summarize data in user-friendly formats.
- Lead projects from beginning to end while meeting budget and schedule requirements.
- Generate monthly dashboards for executives and directors.
- Use familiarity with billing and scheduling processes to support analysis.
- Serve as a super user of systems.
- Travel quarterly as needed to different offices and to office and training-site locations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
