UnitedHealth Group - Business Analysis Consultant - Healthcare

Business Consultant - Healthcare

Discipline - Business Operations

Industry - Business Analysis

Job Description :

As a Business Analysis Consultant, you will be empowered to support short and long term operational/strategic business activities; develop, enhance and maintain operational information and models that will have an impact on business decisions. In this leadership role, you will have the opportunity to take the contributions of analysts and create valuable solutions to improve the health care system. Join us! Your passion for performance can fuel your life's best work.(SM)

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Individual with expertise in eliciting high-level business requirements and creating specification.

- Liaise with the business team to collect, analyze, document business and functional requirements and propose functional design.

Develop and implement effective/strategic business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes

- Can independently facilitate user groups and drive consensus.

- Liaise with development and testing teams during all steps of software development lifecycle to provide necessary support in understanding requirements.

- Ability to provide and review estimates at the project level.

- Understands the project schedule and plans/prioritizes the work schedule for a team and meets time deadlines consistently.

- Delivers all assigned tasks on time/ahead of time with expected quality and under budget.

- Take ownership of projects assigned with successful deliveries, to recognize and escalate situations as deemed necessary.

- Address and resolve all issues utilizing the available resources in a timely and proficient manner.

- Will work closely with various internal and external stakeholders of the project

- Create Use cases specifications that can be understood by technologists for building software design and QA teams for purpose of test design, scenarios and creating tractability matrix

- Change management support to the business and the development team.

- Assist the business / testing team in UAT/functional testing.

- Prepare training manuals

- Train the trainer/ champions/end users

Key accountabilities :

- Define Business analysis strategy and requirements roadmap

Verify and validate requirements :

- Ownership of the deliverable SDLC & Project Management

- Awareness of project management approaches and techniques.

- Experience in full life cycle implementation (SDLC) of projects

- Familiar with industry best-practice approaches to the design, implementation, operation and management of IT systems (e.g. Agile, Waterfall etc.)

- Must have prior experience in leading Business Analysis teams

- Good documentation skills

No. of Openings : 1

Qualification : Required Qualifications :

Post Graduate Degrees: MBA or equivalent (Desirable)

Graduation Degrees: MBBS/ B. Tech or equivalent

Professional certifications (Desirable but not mandatory): CBAP, HL7

Domain Knowledge : Minimum experience of 9+ years in the field of healthcare provider segment business consulting.

- Must anticipate customer needs and proactively develops solutions to meet them.-

- Must be able to review and respond to RFP/RFI/RFQ/EOI's etc.

- Must be able to serves as a key resource on complex and/or critical issues.

- Should be able to solve complex problems and develops innovative solutions.

- Must be able to perform complex conceptual analyses.

- Must be able to review work performed by others and provide recommendations for improvement.

- Should be able to lead functional or segment teams or projects.

- Must be able to motivate and inspire other team members.

- Must be well-versed with and be able to lead efforts in FRS documentation, preparing process and information flow diagrams and coordinating with several groups to drive the functionality of the application

- Sound knowledge of HIS/EMR with International coding and data interoperability standards like ICD, SNOMED, DRG, HL7 etc.

- Good understanding of Hospital and Health Insurance industry in both public and private sector

- Familiar with key healthcare indicators and industry best practices

- Previous technical experience will be an added advantage

- Exposure to international market like US, Middle East, Australia, India, Singapore etc., in the space of interoperability, population health management, etc.will be an added advantage

Prerequisites :

- Should have executed atleast 1 HIS/EMR project for Any Market in last 2-3 years of his service

- Should have been part of major healthcare- IT implementations like HIS, EMR, PMS etc.

- Should have minimum 5 yrs. Experience in Healthcare Industry (desirable)

- Should have worked on at least 3-4 major solutions design.

- Must have excellent and effective oral and written English communication skills to speak with both technical and non-technical personnel.

- Should have understanding of the requirements engineering process.

- Hands on experience of collecting and documenting business requirements, use cases and business flows.

- Strong data analysis, modeling and prototyping skills.

- Excellent client facing skills and the ability to work/communicate with clients/stakeholders to develop and interpret business requirements is essential

- Problem-solving and analytical skills.

- Should be proactive, enthusiastic and great team player.

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SMDiversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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