Healthcare Business Analyst (US)

EdgeQ Technologies • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

The Healthcare Business Analyst supports business operations, data analysis, workflow optimization, and reporting initiatives across healthcare systems and services. The role gathers and translates business needs into actionable requirements, evaluates workflows, develops reports, and identifies opportunities to improve operational efficiency, data quality, and healthcare service delivery. The analyst works with clinical, administrative, financial, IT, data, and project teams to support data-informed decisions.

Responsibilities include documenting and validating requirements; querying and analyzing healthcare data with SQL; identifying data quality issues and trends; mapping workflows and recommending process improvements; developing reports, dashboards, and KPIs; coordinating user acceptance testing; supporting implementations and projects; and maintaining process, data, and requirements documentation. The role also supports applicable privacy, security, data governance, and regulatory practices, including HIPAA where applicable.

The position is full-time and may be based in Chicago, Illinois, or Minneapolis, Minnesota. The schedule is standard business hours, with flexibility as needed for project deadlines and stakeholder requirements. Work may be onsite, hybrid, or remote depending on employer requirements and approved location policy. Salary is $75,000–$130,000 per year, depending on qualifications, relevant experience, location, and role scope.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 3–6 years of experience in business analysis, healthcare analytics, healthcare IT, or a related analytical role.
• At least 2 years of hands-on SQL experience for data extraction, querying, validation, and analysis.
• Experience gathering requirements, documenting business processes, and translating stakeholder needs into functional specifications.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing workflows and recommending process improvements.
• Experience creating operational reports, dashboards, and performance metrics.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and familiarity with business intelligence tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and collaborate across technical and business teams.
• Knowledge of SQL queries, joins, aggregations, subqueries, data validation, and query optimization fundamentals.
• Knowledge of requirements management, workflow documentation, reporting and visualization, testing, and documentation and collaboration tools.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Analytics, Information Systems, Public Health, or a related field.
• Experience with electronic health records (EHR/EMR), healthcare claims, billing, revenue cycle management, or clinical operations data.
• Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 or FHIR.
• Knowledge of healthcare data privacy, HIPAA requirements, and data governance practices.
• Experience with Agile or Scrum methodologies, Jira, Confluence, or similar project management tools.
• Familiarity with data warehousing, ETL processes, and relational database concepts.
• Certifications such as CBAP, CCBA, PMI-PBA, or relevant analytics certifications.
• Familiarity with Visio or equivalent workflow documentation tools.

Responsibilities

• Gather, document, and validate business requirements from clinical, administrative, financial, and IT stakeholders.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirement-gathering sessions.
• Develop business requirements documents, functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Translate business needs into actionable requirements and manage requirement changes.
• Write and optimize SQL queries to extract, validate, and analyze healthcare data.
• Analyze operational, clinical, financial, claims, and patient service data as applicable.
• Identify data inconsistencies, trends, anomalies, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Perform data validation, reconciliation, and quality checks, and collaborate on resolving data issues.
• Assess workflows, identify bottlenecks, and develop process maps and current-state and future-state documentation.
• Recommend, implement, and evaluate workflow improvements and support process standardization.
• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, KPIs, analytical summaries, and stakeholder presentations.
• Ensure reporting is accurate, timely, consistent, and aligned with business requirements.
• Act as a liaison between business stakeholders, IT, data analysts, and project managers.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing and validate that solutions meet documented requirements.
• Support system implementations, upgrades, process transitions, testing, and implementation validation.
• Follow applicable healthcare privacy, security, confidentiality, data governance, and organizational requirements.
• Maintain process documentation, data definitions, report specifications, requirements logs, and traceability.
• Track project issues, dependencies, risks, and action items and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Benefits

• Health insurance, subject to employer offerings.
• Dental insurance, subject to employer offerings.
• Vision insurance, subject to employer offerings.
• Paid time off and company holidays, according to policy.
• Retirement savings plan, if offered.
• Professional development and training opportunities.
• Potential performance-based incentives, depending on the employer's compensation structure.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level