Nursing Operations Data Analyst

This is an on-site role that will offer some work from home flexibility post orientation. Monday-Friday hospital business hours. Knowledge of Epic highly desirable.

Performs data collection, analysis, and monitoring of data to identify business needs, perform trend calculations, and provide recommendations and consultation which guides decisions.

Major Responsibilities:

• Extracts and manipulates data to perform trend calculations, identify benchmarking opportunities and business needs, and measure process or organizational performance. Extracts patterns from data to transform data into information.
• Analyzes, compiles, researches, and validates data to ensure accuracy and appropriateness of analytics. Presents, displays, and calculates various statistics displaying analysis results. May assist others with data cleansing and more complex statistical analysis.
• Collaborates and consults with leadership and staff to transform the data providing insight and recommendations for business decisions, quality, research, performance, and/or organizational initiatives.
• Facilitates leadership's and staff's interpretation of data by developing narrative and quantitative reports (charts, tables, or graphs) depicting analysis results, recommendations, forecasting, and performance.
• Identifies and implements opportunities for increasing business efficiency by developing new methods for automating or improving data collection, validation, and benchmarking activities.
• May functions as system administrator for the database(s) to audit database functionality and assign and train new users.
• Implements, and maintains database systems based on leadership and end-user specifications to advance departmental/organizational data collection, analysis, and reporting capabilities.
• May manually review or oversee the manual review of medical records or other data sources to supplement programmatically extracted data.
• Ensures data is provided in a manner that is consistent and compliant with applicable laws, regulations, legal agreements, policies and procedure, and/or other standards.

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

• None Required.

Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or related field.

Experience Required:

• Typically requires 3 years of experience in data management or analysis which includes experiences in extracting, analyzing, and manipulating data to provide consultation, and identify trends and business opportunities.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite or similar products. Experience with relational databases as well as other data management systems. Knowledge of Epic is highly desired.
• Ability to perform complex reporting, including demonstrated skill in composing logical, detailed, and analytical reports that support planning and decision making.
• Skills in understanding abstract concepts and in translating those concepts into an analytics to depict data or support business needs.
• Knowledge of basic statistics and data presentation to summarize and present data accurately reflecting and conveying meaning.
• Skills in creating benchmarking analysis and identify process improvement opportunities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to display and communicate information to all levels of employees, management, and other organizations.
• Thorough understanding of data points within data sources and the advantages and disadvantages.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Operates all equipment necessary to performing the job.
• Exposed to a normal office environment.
• Must be able to sit for long periods of time.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Pay Range

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
• Incentive pay for select positions
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program