Business Analyst II

“SHPS is dedicated to driving, innovating and delivering healthcare consumerism for our clients, partners and participants. Our broad range of clinical, financial and benefit solutions enable and encourage wise healthcare consumerism, promote better health, lower healthcare costs, and maximize the quality and value of today’s healthcare.”

Develops and analyzes business requirements for corporate project initiatives. Interfaces with business and technology partners to ascertain and develop client implementation and technology-based requirements, track them to completion, and works with more senior Business Systems Analysts to ensure requirements meet the stated strategic goals for the product and/or implementation. Become a subject matter expert on the business functionality for one or more HMS systems. In summary, translate short and long term product strategy and client implementation goals into business and technology requirements.

Job Skills/Requirements
- Participates in the development of new product offerings by summarizing the features and functionality of the product, and ensuring the benefits identified are attained and business needs are satisfied. Among other things, this includes producing a scope document by participating in a concept review, determining project scope and sizing, and incorporating cost/benefit analyses.
- Ensures continuity of business services by serving as an expert on business functionality and impact of system changes on one or more product platforms, supporting internal departments regarding business functionality for development initiatives, working with both the business and technical teams to ensure technical understanding of the appropriate business requirements, and maintaining a clear understanding of project statuses throughout the SDLC (Services Development Life Cycle).
- Deliver analysis documentation by identifying requirements and meeting with internal clients.
- Works with more senior Business System Analysts to ensure all requirements are met against the traceability matrix for one or more products or systems and ensuring technical designs meet business functionality.
- Validates the satisfaction of all requirements by developing, executing and evaluating test cases and scenarios, reviewing test results, and working with more senior Business System Analysts to make recommendations to management. This includes test environment set up, business test plan creation, test script execution including positive, negative, regression, integration and performance testing where applicable, and providing input to test automation designs as needed.
- Identifies business impact of making changes to one or more products by determining impact of system changes, translating product management business objectives into business requirements, performing analysis such as screen and functional design, business processes, and the end-to-end mapping of data processing flows for both inbound and outbound data feeds.
- Provides status updates by presenting project results of each phase of the SDLC to the project team, and management.
- Supports achievement of project milestones by acting as a business functionality expert on one or more products or systems, monitoring project plans, and participating in weekly meetings.
- Provides project or assignment status reports to the appropriate management team members.

Education/Experience
- Bachelors degree or higher in business, technology or related field business management, computer science, business information systems, engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 1-3 years experience writing business requirements and/or technical specifications. 1-2 years of software development experience is a plus.
- Experience with Project Management Philosophy. Project Management Certification is a plus.
- Experience producing reports and delivering presentations to team leads and managers.
- Experience in using analytical tools and processes.
- Strong familiarity with MS Office applications such as Excel, PowerPoint, MS Word, Visio, MS Access, etc.
- Familiarity with SQL, Oracle or similar data base tools is a plus.

Additional Skills
- Excellent oral, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment, as well as produce self-driven work independently.
- Ability to handle and prioritize projects while respecting deadlines.

Additional Information/Benefits
All benefits are effective on the 29th day of employment with the exception of tuition reimbursement, which is effective after 90 days of employment.

Benefits: Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Paid Vacation, Paid Sick Days, Paid Holidays, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, 401K/403b Plan, Educational Assistance

Screening Requirements: Drug Screen, Criminal Background Check

Please apply online at www.shps.com/careers