Business Analysis

Horizontal Talent; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 30,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement plan

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is seeking a detail-oriented Business Analyst to join our healthcare analytics team. You will lead analysis for reporting products from intake through implementation, translating needs into user stories and acceptance criteria, and coordinating with business partners, product owners, developers, data engineers, and offshore teams.

The role emphasizes independent work, clear documentation, and data validation, with responsibility for testing support, production readiness, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business analysis or a related role.
• 3+ years supporting analytics, reporting, BI, data, or technology initiatives.
• Strong requirements gathering and documentation skills including user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Working knowledge of SQL and ability to write or modify basic queries.
• Experience partnering with both business and technical teams across multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis efforts for healthcare analytics and reporting products from intake through requirements, testing, implementation, and support transition.
• Translate needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and documentation.
• Coordinate work across stakeholders, product owners, developers, data engineers, data scientists, project managers, and offshore delivery teams.
• Manage multiple priorities and align work with business impact and delivery timelines.
• Support user acceptance testing, data validation, defect triage, stakeholder signoff, and production readiness activities.

Skills

Business analysis

Analytics

Requirements gathering

Documentation

SQL

Stakeholder coordination

Testing support

Data validation

Tools

Power BI

Snowflake

Streamlit

Rally

Jira

Azure DevOps

Job description

Join a dynamic healthcare analytics team as a Business Analyst supporting reporting, data, and technology initiatives that help drive meaningful business outcomes. This role is ideal for an independent, detail-oriented professional who enjoys turning complex needs into clear requirements, coordinating across stakeholders, and helping stabilize and advance active products and projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis efforts for healthcare analytics and reporting products from intake through requirements, testing, implementation, and support transition.
• Facilitate discussions with business and technical partners to translate needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and documentation.
• Assess newly transitioned products by capturing key details such as purpose, stakeholders, commitments, support approach, dependencies, gaps, and open issues.
• Coordinate work across business stakeholders, product owners, developers, data engineers, data scientists, project managers, and offshore delivery teams.
• Manage multiple priorities at once and help keep work aligned with business impact, capacity, and delivery timelines.
• Track decisions, action items, owners, blockers, dependencies, and next steps to keep work organized and visible.
• Use SQL to support basic data research, validate reporting outcomes, and investigate discrepancies with technical teams.
• Support user acceptance testing, data validation, defect triage, stakeholder signoff, and production readiness activities.
• Provide clear, concise status updates for leadership that summarize progress, risks, decisions needed, and upcoming priorities.

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, technical business analysis, product analysis, or a related role.
• 3+ years supporting analytics, reporting, business intelligence, data, or technology initiatives.
• Experience working independently with limited direction in a fast-moving, evolving environment.
• Strong requirements-gathering and documentation skills, including user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, and data requirements.
• Working knowledge of SQL and the ability to write or modify basic queries.
• Experience partnering with both business and technical teams across multiple workstreams.
• Comfort managing stakeholders, priorities, dependencies, and delivery risks.
• Strong facilitation, organization, communication, and follow-up skills.
• Experience supporting testing, data validation, and issue resolution.

Preferred Skills

• Background in healthcare analytics, reporting, quality, member or patient experience, Medicare, Stars, CAHPS, HOS, pharmacy, or provider reporting.
• Experience with Power BI or a similar business intelligence platform.
• Exposure to Snowflake, Streamlit, Rally, Jira, Azure DevOps, or comparable tools.
• Understanding of data ingestion, data lineage, source-to-target mapping, refresh dependencies, and quality assurance.
• Experience stabilizing an active project or taking over ongoing work.
• Experience assessing newly assigned products and documenting roadmaps, support models, risks, and dependencies.
• Familiarity with portfolio prioritization, roadmap planning, intake management, or product ownership.
• Ability to establish BA standards, templates, processes, or governance.
• Comfort communicating with both executive stakeholders and detailed technical teams.

Horizontal is committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive environment where different perspectives are valued and everyone has the opportunity to contribute and succeed. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and welcome applications from individuals who can bring fresh ideas, collaboration, and a shared commitment to equity and respect.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge and agree that Horizontal Talent may contact you regarding your application using automated technology, including phone calls, SMS/text messages, or email, which may be delivered by our virtual AI recruiter, Alex.

Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks.

For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement.

The pay range for this role is $22 - $37 per hour based on qualifications and experience.