JOB SUMMARY

The Associate BI Analyst will provide analytic support to the business or clinical area supported and will use analytic expertise including knowledge of data structures, programming, and statistics along with critical thinking to help the organization make data-driven decisions. The Associate BI Analyst, with direct supervision, assists in efforts to collect, clean, and interpret data sets in order to answer a question or solve a problem including identifying improvement opportunities and supporting the evaluation of existing processes and improvement efforts. Will gain experience with translating analyses and opportunity insights to non-technical stakeholders. Associate BI Analysts must exhibit initiative and organizational skills, as well as possess the ability to inspire trust and confidence to help maintain customer relationships.

EDUCATION

High School Diploma or Equivalent (GED)- (Required)

EXPERIENCE

Minimum of 4 years-Relevant experience* (Required)

• Observes during consultation process and documents project requirements and scope with assistance from more experienced analysts.
• Collaborates with internal partners and organizations in the design and development of reporting solutions and analytic studies to support business needs.
• Plans projects and request completion tasks with assistance from more experienced analysts.
• Provides time and effort estimates based on requirements gathering. Must be able to manage projects with supervision.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of relevant source systems needed to support primary stakeholders and proficiency with related databases/data marts within first year in role. Must stay abreast of current industry trends and become facile with the various business intelligence software systems used at Geisinger.
• Recommends analysis approach and additional analyses or reporting needed based on business questions, requirements, and initial analysis findings.
• Develops, validates, and executes simple queries. Develops basic reports and performs routine data analysis that answers business questions for internal customers. Interprets results and makes recommendations to business areas based on findings under supervision of more senior analyst or supervisor.
• Presents analysis and reports to internal customers and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with basic descriptive and inferential statistics.
• Reports and helps troubleshoot data quality issues when performing data profiling, testing, or validation.
• Collaborative and eager to share knowledge with team members
• Responsible for participating in strategic departmental initiatives.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to be precise and clear when describing results of data analyses.
• Shares important and relevant information with the team. Proactively offers suggestions, provides resources, volunteers for assignments, and removes barriers to help the team accomplish its goals.
• Follows all department’s policies and procedures including request intake/fulfillment, change management, and data governance practices.
  Work is typically performed in an office environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job. *Relevant experience may be a combination of related work experience and degree obtained (Associate’s Degree = 2 years; Bachelor’s Degree = 4 years).