Senior Continuous Improvement Analyst

Job Description:
The Senior Continuous Improvement Analyst gathers the necessary requirements from the customer and creates documentation to support the analytics being produced, presents findings, and suggests improvements for data quality and workflow. The Analyst may be required to lead areas of projects, develop, and implement new methodologies and make recommendations to improve both the business and processes. They can lead and work on highly complex projects with large degrees of risk, often serving in the role of project manager. Senior analysts provide accurate and timely feedback to team members on project performance, outcomes, accomplishments, and opportunities.

Education Qualifications:

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with project teams and leadership regarding financial and clinic analysis
• Designs and generates standardized reporting to support improvement efforts
• Performs trend analysis, develops, and maintains analytical methodologies, tools, and data to support continuous improvement efforts
• Creates assigned/appropriate deliverables as a part of assigned projects or ad hoc development assignments
• Escalates and collaborates with department leadership on program issues and risks to identify solutions
• Provides technical expertise to other staff involved in data analysis and supporting data visualization
• Acts as a liaison between finance and operational leaders to ensure they have relevant tools and data and understand how to use them to identify ongoing improvement opportunities
• Performs data modeling, database development and management
• Evaluates outcomes to identify the greatest impact on and why
• Defines metrics which determine performance for overall strategy and individual interventions within the strategy.
• Identifies, plans and implements key projects to improve quality, reduce costs, increase productivity and improve cycle time by reducing wasted time, rework, etc. resulting in significant business improvement and customer satisfaction
• Provides leadership with project status updates, feedback, and appropriate reporting on key responsibilities and objectives. Prepares monthly project scorecard reports, including visual project scorecard
• Consults with leaders and teams across the system to identify opportunities and develop plans for effective outcomes

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, business, healthcare administration or related field

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years’ work experience
• Project management experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Automation Analytic Experience
• Experience in the following programs: Tableau, Slicer Dicer, MS Project, Clarity, Workday, Epic, Power Bi, Advanced Excel, Vizient, Strata, Visio, Queuing Theory & Productivity Reporting Experience, Service Now

Pay Range
$83803 - $125715 / year

The approximate base compensation range is posted, but the actual offer will reflect our total compensation and benefits package. The offer will be determined by a number of factors including the selected candidate’s experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, FTE, as well as internal equity among our team.

Effective December 1, 2019: Job offers are contingent upon successful completion of a post-offer assessment, including a urine drug screen, immunization review, proof of required vaccinations, and background check. Essentia Health is committed to maintaining a work environment free from the influence of illegal drugs and alcohol.

Essentia Health EEO:
Essentia Health is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.