Business Analyst I

<p>With more than 7,000 employees, we are the largest health insurance company in Michigan. We offer an exciting work environment with a diverse group of employees. Our goal is to make health insurance easier for our members. We want to transform the industry and become a resource that people can trust.</p>

Detroit, MI

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan

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Full-time

Competitive Total Compensation Package

Overview: Serve as a liaison between the business areas and the IT organization to provide technical solutions required for the achievement of business goals. Collect, analyze, develop, document, and communicate business requirements. Support one or more low to moderately complex business processes.
Responsibilities: <ul> <li>Conduct data gathering and analysis to understand business strategy requirements.</li> <li>Contribute to the business short-and long-term planning sessions and provides direction to ensure understanding of business goals and direction. Provide input from a business and IT perspective.</li> <li>Assist in assessing client needs utilizing a structured requirements process (gathering, analyzing, documenting, and managing changes) to assist in identifying business priorities.</li> <li>Develop, write, and communicate business requirements and functional specifications for the implementation of business solutions.</li> <li>Document current business processes and models.</li> <li>Provide assistance in business case development (i.e., research, data collection), as needed. Develop user test cases and system integration testing and validate test results during testing. Investigate, resolve and escalate problems. Procure technical assistance to help in problem resolution.</li> <li>Keep customers informed of problems, issues, and status. Analyze performance metrics to eure customer satisfaction.</li> <li>Coach and transfer knowledge to less experienced team members.</li> <li>Other duties as assigned.</li> </ul>
Requirements: <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>EDUCATION AND/OR</strong> <strong>EXPERIENCE</strong></p> <ul style="font-weight: 400;"> <li>Bachelor's degree in related field preferred.</li> <li>One (1) year of relevant technical or business work experience required.</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>Departmental Preferences:</strong></p> <ul style="font-weight: 400;"> <li>Proven experience with Microsoft Project &ndash; 2+ Years</li> <li>Under general direction, assists project and program managers in creating and maintaining project planning documents and reports.</li> <li>Assist in budget&nbsp;estimates, re-estimates, on-going cost maintenance, forecasting and reporting.</li> <li>Supports project metrics analysis, team communication, resource planning, risk analysis, report generation, and documentation control.</li> <li>Performs complete range of standard administrative duties by utilizing appropriate PC applications to prepare and compose correspondence, status reports, minutes, numerical data, tracking of project assignments, charts and forms in an accurate manner.</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES</strong></p> <ul style="font-weight: 400;"> <li>Basic knowledge of business operations and systems requirement processes.</li> <li>Demonstrated technical, analytical, systems skills.</li> <li>Display innovation in identifying, proposing, and overseeing the execution of business solutions.</li> <li>Written and verbal communication skills interpersonal skills.</li> <li>Ability to work independently, or within a team environment.</li> <li>Other related skills and/or abilities may be required to perform this job.</li> </ul> <p style="font-weight: 400;"><em>All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, among other grounds, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.</em></p>