Senior Business Analyst (Business Solution Analyst)
UnitedHealth Group is an innovative leader in the health and well-being industry, serving more than 55 million Americans. Through our family of companies, we contribute outstanding clinical insight with consumer-friendly services and advanced technology to help people achieve optimal health.
Position Description:
You're empowered to do your best! Use your Sharp Analytical Skills to help us build a high-performance health care system that works better for more people in more ways than ever! Support short and long term operational/strategic business opportunities - by developing, enhancing and maintaining effective/strategic business solutions. Be a leader in developing ideas, pilots, and products, through research and analysis of business processes, data, product, and solution models.
Ideal candidates can intertwine a methodical approach and innovation to advance initiatives that contain a high degree of ambiguity and constant change. Ideal candidates are experienced on the both the business and IT side of new capability development. Positions in this function conduct and manage outcomes of Initiatives and Projects. They support short and long term operational/strategic business activities - by developing, enhancing and maintaining capability information and models.
- Assist in project artifact documentation (BRD, flow charts, etc).
- Provide problem-solving support and solution options analysis
- Collaborate on problem resolution, team decisions and project planning
- Contribute to team discussions presenting ideas, sharing knowledge and listening to others ideas
- Work in a self-directed manner, sometimes on less structured, more complex issues
Core Competencies:
- Excellent communication, time/project management, problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead meetings with internal business to assess, define and document business needs, issues and ideas
- Comfort with giving presentations
UnitedHealth Group IT provides a diverse and comprehensive array of application design and infrastructure services designed to advance improved health and well-being for our customers, and to benefit UnitedHealth Group employees across the enterprise. Comprised of the Application Services Group, Enterprise Technology Services Group and the IT Business Services Group, UnitedHealth Group IT has over 7,000 internal and external resources across the globe, and offices in California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New Jersey, South Carolina, Wisconsin and India.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or HS diploma/GED with 4+ years of equivalent experience.
- Business analytical skills - problem solving, documentation, research and summarization; experience with technology solution analysis
- Experience writing business requirements
- Display understanding of the system/software development life cycle (SDLC) and associated project artifacts
- Intermediate level of MS Excel (manipulating data, formulas)
- PowerPoint (Creating presentations to communication with stakeholders and team for solution approach)
Assets:
- Working knowledge of MS Visio and SharePoint
- Experience working in multi-disciplinary environments with multi-level participants
- Process improvement, workflow, benchmarking and / or evaluation of business processes
- Project Management experience a plus
- Healthcare experience is a plus
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.
Job Category: Business/Strategic Management
Reference Code: 374554
Position Type: Full Time, Employee