Business Analytics Consultant

Genesis Healthcare System; Moline (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Genesis HealthCare System in Moline, IL, is seeking a Business Analytics Consultant to gather and analyze healthcare data from multiple sources to extract trends and business insights, helping the organization understand performance and promote effectiveness.

The role collaborates with service line leaders and finance teams to plan, manage, and improve budgets, forecast results, and deliver actionable analyses that support decision making and patient and staff satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Healthcare administration, Engineering, or other related field; equivalence accepted.
• Three (3) years’ experience in business administration, healthcare administrative, or related field.
• Experience in data analysis and visualization methods.
• Experience in developing operating and capital budgets at a departmental and system level.
• Analytical, resourceful, and excellent communicator who can tell the story from data to decision to all audiences.
• Knowledge of data mining methods and analysis tools.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to read, categorize, comprehend and calculate information.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple tasks.
• Detail oriented with high accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Analyze strategic alignment of proposed projects to the organization’s strategic objectives and goals.
• Work with service line leaders in planning, managing, and improving service lines financially and by scorecard expectations.
• Analyze moderate to high complexity information to provide actionable, accurate, high-integrity data; perform financial analysis, modeling, and reporting.
• Present and explain information and data in an understandable and purposeful manner.
• Analyze data to identify trends and patterns, integrating data from financial, billing, and operational systems.
• Collaborate with data management for benchmarking information including market share data.
• Build business models and analyses that reflect the healthcare delivery process and communicate findings to stakeholders.
• Demonstrate knowledge of accounting and finance activities; learn healthcare services operations as needed.
• Develop and maintain service line reports aligned with strategic initiatives; ensure data integrity for distribution.
• Work with teams to develop operating and capital budgets at departmental and system levels; monitor forecasts.
• Perform variance analysis of budget to actual monthly reports; assist with expense and economic reviews.
• Assist with cost accounting methods; incorporate analysis to support decision-making.
• Identify and implement process improvement strategies to produce reports and meet organizational needs.
• Coordinate with service lines and finance teams to ensure effective communications and decision making.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Skills

Data analysis

Data visualization

Communication

Critical thinking

Attention to detail

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

GENESIS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

In order to fill our Mission of serving our community by helping each person achieve optimal health and well-being by providing compassionate, exceptional, and affordable healthcare services, all employees of Genesis HealthCare System must be committed to living the Genesis Mission and Genesis values of Compassion, Excellence, Integrity, Team, and Innovation. All employees must regard themselves as an ‘owner’ of Genesis and keep our patients at the center of everything we do - always.__

Position Details:

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Department:

Business Development & Strategy

Overview of Position:

The Business Analytics Consultant gathers and analyzes healthcare data from multiple sources to extract trends and business insights. The Business Analyst Consultant’s primary objective is to help the organization understand all areas of business performance in an effort to promote organizational effectiveness, streamline processes, and keep patients and employees satisfied.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

• 1. Analyze strategic alignment of proposed projects to the organization’s strategic objectives and goals.
• 2. Works directly with service line leaders in planning, managing, and improving service lines both financially and based on other scorecard expectations.
• 3. Conducts analysis of moderate to high complexity information to assure key stakeholders are provided with actionable, accurate, and high integrity data. Performs financial analysis, modeling, and reporting related to project/business proposals.
• 4. Present and explain information and data in an understandable and purposeful manner.
• 5. Analyze data to identify trends and patterns, along with ability to integrate and relate data from disparate sources including financial, billing, and operational systems.
• 6. Works in conjunction with data management team for statistical gathering, reporting and compilation of benchmarking information including market share data.
• 7. Build business models and analyses that incorporate the complete healthcare delivery process. Effectively collaborates with entire organization to conduct analysis and communicate findings and value-added information to the stakeholders at all levels in the organization.
• 8. Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of accounting and finance activities and demonstrates the willingness and ability to learn healthcare service line specific operations, ensuring applicable and effective analysis is performed.
• 9. Develops and maintains service line reports in alignment with strategic initiatives and orchestrates the process for routine distribution. Maintains data integrity process to ensure all data received, retrieved, and processed is validated prior to distribution.
• 10. Works with team to develop departmental level, entity level, and system-wide operating and capital budgets.
• 11. Prepares and monitors annual key department operating and capital budgets/forecasts.
• 12. Performs variance analysis of budget to actual monthly reports. Assists with analysis of expenses and economic reviews of both labor and supply expense reduction efforts.
• 13. Assist with development and maintenance of cost accounting method over time. In conjunction with routine reporting incorporates cost accounting analysis to supplement the strategic decision-making process where appropriate.
• 14. Identifies and implements process improvement strategies to produce reports, gather information, and meet organizational needs effectively and efficiently.
• 15. Integrates with both service line and finance teams to insure seamless and efficient communications and decision making.
• 16. Performs all other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 1. Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Healthcare administration, Engineering, or other related field In lieu of a bachelor’s degree, an equivalent of certification(s) approved as applicable to the job role.
• 2. Three (3) years’ experience in business administration, healthcare administrative, or related field.
• 3. Experience in data analysis and visualization methods.
• 4. Experience in developing operating and capital budgets at a departmental and system level.
• 5. Must be analytical, resourceful, and an excellent communicator who’s able to tell the story from data to decision to all audiences.
• 6. Knowledge of data mining methods and systems and analysis tools.
• 7. Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills with ability to read, categorize, comprehend and calculate information.
• 8. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• 9. Advanced Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills to effectively create analysis and presentations.
• 10. Ability to independently prioritize and focus on multiple tasks concurrently.
• 11. Must be detail oriented and complete tasks with a high degree of accuracy.

PATIENT CENTERED CARE & BEHAVIORAL EXPECTATIONS

1. Living the Genesis Mission, Vision, and Values:
   
   • Performs work in a manner that is quality focused.
   • Treats patients, co-workers, visitors and volunteers with courtesy, compassion, empathy, and respect.
   • Results oriented and focused on achievement of objectives.
   • Acknowledges and responds to the diversity of people and the situation.
   • Encourages peers (others) to be owners of change.
   • Always makes the effort to anticipate and exceed customer needs and expectations.
   • Possesses the ability to engage others with patience and understanding.
   • Acts in a manner that creates positive first and lasting impressions.
   • Demonstrates the ability to own issues until they are resolved.
2. Patient Centered Care (patients/families, physicians, co-workers, all other internal/external customers)
   
   • Introduces self and role…connects with everyone.
   • Communicates effectively (i.e., advising others of actions, pertinent information, time durations, etc.) and asks for feedback.
   • Asks for and anticipates needs and concerns of others.
   • Maintains a positive work environment for staff and a healing environment for patients (i.e., safe, clean, quiet, etc.).
   • Maintains the dignity and privacy of each person; manages confidential/sensitive information appropriately.
   • Responds to requests in an appropriate and timely manner.
   • Exits patient/customer encounters courteously, asking if there are additional needs that can be addressed.
3. Promotes Patient and Employee Safety
   
   • Demonstrates safe Patient Handling (i.e., transfers, transport, care administration, nutrition, medication, etc.).
   • Demonstrates safe Materials Handling (i.e., appropriate use and disposal of chemicals, infectious wastes, etc.).
   • Demonstrates appropriate knowledge of Infectious Disease precautions and use of proper protective equipment.
   • Demonstrates Slips/Trips and Falls Awareness.
   • Actively contributes to maintaining a safe, clean and quiet environment.

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Works in an office environment.

2. Regularly lift or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift or move up to 50 pounds.

3. Vision aptitude required: up close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

4. Answers phones, uses a personal computer, scanner, copier, and fax, which require finger dexterity.

5. May occasionally bend, reach, push, pull, stoop kneel, crouch or crawl.

6. Employee may be required to travel to other departments/floors or travel to other locations.

This description reflects in general terms the type and level of work performed. It is not intended to be all-inclusive, nor portray the specific duties of any one incumbent.

Thank you for your interest in employment at Genesis. Genesis is committed to being an equal opportunity employer. Selection of applicants for employment is based only on qualifications and the requirements of a specific job.