Senior Consultant - Business Analyst

About Us:
NYSTEC is a nonprofit technology consulting company, advising agencies, organizations, institutions, and businesses since 1996. We're independent and vendor-neutral, so we have our clients' best interests at heart. At NYSTEC, we know that we succeed when individuals and teams flourish personally and professionally, so our benefits and perks support that mindset.
About the Role:
As a Business Analyst in the Policy and Program Strategic Solutions practice, you will collaborate with team members to conceptualize, deliver, and support our clients through today's ever-changing healthcare landscape. NYSTEC is considered a trusted advisor, providing subject matter expertise and analytic-driven insights to support our clients with their healthcare program, systems, and policy challenges.
Your day-to-day role as a NYSTEC consultant will include supporting the director of the Bureau of Data Insights and Research (BDIR), which resides in the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), Office of Health Insurance Programs' (OHIP) Division of Data Services and Analytics (DDSA). This role will provide business analysis and project coordination support to expand the capacity of the bureau to provide data-driven insights and analysis for OHIP and Medicaid programs. This selected consultant will need to demonstrate the ability to take initiative on projects assigned and to work independently to provide analysis based on the director's priorities. The selected consultant will also be required to work alongside the director and the bureau's stakeholder groups to elicit and document business requirements that pertain to the data requests.
Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the team to propose and build solutions by conducting research, gathering requirements, and designing and developing resources to meet the clients' needs.
• Use strong writing, documentation, communication, and analytical skills to meet project goals.
• Assess policies and procedures to identify programmatic requirements and business rules that will inform policy and program decision-makers.
• Work with project managers to coordinate requests with competing priorities.
• Execute and support project work plans and drive activities to meet critical project milestones and deliverables.
• Analyze and prioritize requirements and identify associated risks.
• Develop and maintain reports for internal teams, clients, and external stakeholders.
• Develop or support the development of tools to support the team, clients, and stakeholders.
• Develop ad hoc written deliverables that meet the needs of the team and clients.
• Coordinate meetings and collaborative sessions in support of the work plan, including convening requirement sessions.

About You:
Required Qualifications

• Experience as a Business Analyst within healthcare, Medicaid, or other public sector programs, policies, or systems.
• Strong critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Experience writing, gathering, and maintaining business requirements and/or business rules.
• Ability to develop relationships with stakeholders and to understand their needs through excellent listening and effective written and verbal communication.
• Experience using and analyzing information or data to inform decision-making.
• Proficiency with translating complex analytic ideas into actionable insights for different stakeholder groups.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite, with advanced Excel and Word skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a business, technical, scientific, or related discipline.
• Experience with Medicaid/Medicare policies and regulations.
• Experience with systems development life cycle (SDLC) activities to manage, plan, design, implement, test, and deliver information systems and strategies.
• Experience performing research and interpreting policies, procedures, and guidance.
• Experience performing data quality analysis to identify risks and opportunities.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Access.
• Experience working in Tableau.

Education and Experience

• A bachelor's degree in business, public health, health informatics, mathematics, public health, or a related discipline and five years of related experience. An equivalent combination of advanced education, training, and experience will be considered.

The pay range for this position is $79,793.00 to $109,716.00 per year.
It is NYSTEC's policy to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all individuals, regardless of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, sex, or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, military service and veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws and ordinances. NYSTEC is strongly committed to this policy and believes in the concept and spirit of the law.
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