Data Analyst

Florida Hospital Association; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Florida Hospital Association seeks a Data Analyst to research and analyze complex hospital data across Florida and support executive-level presentations, dashboards, and reports.

You will help maintain data integrity, build interactive visualizations, and assist in data collection for policy issues, engaging with policy and advocacy teams to ensure timely deliverables.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Business Analytics, MIS, Finance, Economics, or related field.
• Experience as a data analyst or related analytical role preferred.
• Ability to analyze complex data sets and identify meaningful trends and insights.
• Experience creating data visualizations, dashboards, and reports using large data sets.
• Ability to analyze tools, databases, and processes and recommend improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication to explain data findings to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Maintain master hospital data, including creation, updates, validation, and deletion.
• Assist in data collection for policy issues and media inquiries.
• Create and maintain dashboards, reports, and data visualizations for leadership and stakeholders.
• Educate end-users towards self-serve reporting models and dashboards.
• Collaborate with Analytics team to ensure consistency in methodologies and reporting.

Skills

Data analysis

Dashboards

Data visualization

Communication

Time management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

SAP Analytics Cloud

Power BI

SQL

Python

R

Job description

Company Description

The Florida Hospital Association (FHA), founded in 1927, is the leading voice for health care providers across the State of Florida. FHA represents and advocates for more than 200 hospitals and health care systems, supporting their mission to deliver high-quality care to patients and communities. Through policy leadership, education, and informational services, FHA works to strengthen Florida’s health care delivery system. For more information, visit www.fha.org.

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting directly to the Data Analyst Manager, the Data Analyst will be responsible for researching and analyzing complex data sets associated with hospitals across Florida.This position supports the development of executive level presentations, dashboards, reports, and other data products and works under the direction of the Data Analyst Manager to ensure accuracy, consistency, and timely completion of assigned projects.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Data Management & Integrity

• Maintain master hospital data, including creation, updates, validation, and deletion, in accordance with established procedures and standards.
• Support initiatives for data integrity and normalization.
• Perform routine data validation and quality-control reviews to identify discrepancies, anomalies, or incomplete data.
• Process confidential data and information securely.

Data Collection & Research

• Research and gather data on current hospital finance and policy issues in collaboration with the association’s policy and advocacy teams.
• Assist in collecting data for media inquiries, press releases, and interviews.
• Create and share surveys using SurveyMonkey or a similar data collection application.

Data Processing & Analytics

• Assist in importing financial and hospital data onto SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Assist in building dashboards with backend data models and provide daily support for the data warehouse, troubleshooting data anomalies.
• Create and maintain rich interactive visualizations through data interpretation and analysis from multiple data sources.
• Analyze trends in financial and hospital data and develop statistical findings and conclusions for review and presentation to management.
• Prepare, analyze, and distribute hospital-specific data.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, presentations, reports, and other data visualizations for executive leadership, FHA staff, members, and other stakeholders.
• Educate end-users towards self-serve reporting models and dashboards.

Project & Team Support

• Complete assigned projects and data requests in accordance with priorities and deadlines established by the Data Analyst Manager.
• Provide regular updates regarding project status, anticipated completion dates, and potential issues or delays.
• Collaborate with other members of the Data Analytics team to ensure consistency in methodologies, reporting, and presentation of data.
• Maintain appropriate documentation of data sources, methodologies, processes, and recurring reports.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Business Analytics, Management Information Systems, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
• Previous experience as a data analyst or in a related analytical role preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex data sets and identify meaningful trends and insights.
• Experience creating data visualizations, dashboards, and reports using large data sets.
• Ability to analyze existing tools, databases, and processes and recommend improvements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex data findings to non-technical audiences.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to research and understand complex healthcare, hospital finance, and policy issues.
• Experience with Python and/or R for data analysis is preferred.
• Experience reading and interpreting hospital financial or cost-report data is preferred.
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud, Power BI, SQL, or similar analytics and business intelligence tools is preferred.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand, sit, talk, or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk, use hands to manipulate, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus.

NOTE

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

To perform this job successfully, the incumbent will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an “at will” relationship.