Department Name: H4030:Performance Services
Job Summary: This Performance Analyst position fulfills analytic requests requiring data management and reporting, ad-hoc reporting and dataset creation, identifying data quality issues throughout the enterprise, and perform data integration and transformations of disparate datasets. The analyst will support recurring tasks for performance monitoring scorecard development and maintenance. The analyst may assist with the development of operational reports and dashboards, run standard queries and reports with or without modification to support end users. This position will contribute to documentation and metadata. This position requires the use of SQL and similar data query/modeling tools.
The Performance Analyst position implements analysis including but not limited to performing descriptive, exploratory, and statistical analysis; creating statistical process control charting; designing metrics and interpreting results. This position will support annual goal setting processes through establishing benchmarks and baselines for measures as well as summarize analyses to identify trends, correlations, and contributing factors for measures of interest. This position will support the data acquisition and validation needed for reputational surveys.
This position contributes to data governance processes and collaborates with master data management, data architecture, business intelligence, data science, and others in developing new capabilities on the enterprise data and analytic roadmap.
The position will routinely perform testing, validation, and review of analytic products produced by others; collaborate with engineers, administrators and health care providers to optimize processes and outcomes; be a leading influence improving targeted outcomes in projects using various improvement methodologies such as Agile, Lean, PDSA , Six Sigma, and other methodologies; and perform other duties as assigned.
The position maintains strong customer service, responsive and professional communication, fosters a collaborative and accountable work environment, ensures effective delivery of team on projects, and leads continuous service improvement efforts for the team. Skills /Knowledge/Abilities: Database management, SQL , R/Python/Minitab, Tableau, project management, data modeling.
Position Time Status: Full-Time
Required Education: BS
Required Related Experience: 1 yr
Required License/Registration/Certification : Epic Certification within 90 days
Preferred Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree and 1 year related employment experience in data management, data analysis, and/or data research preferred. Structured quality improvement and health care experience preferred.
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