Business Analytics Specialist - Financial Services

Description

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Summary:
The Business Analytics Specialist provides business intelligence support to UNC Health Care's statewide clinically integrated network. The primary purpose is to provide data driven insights and actionable information to our clinical practices and operational teams to be a change agent for improvement, efficiency and best practice.

Responsibilities:

1. Serves as a Financial Insights Partner: Builds strong consultative relationships across the organization, positioning finance as a trusted business partner. Provides financial models and analysis that generate operational and strategic insights to support both short- and long-term business objectives. Acts as a liaison between internal stakeholders and external partners through the Novant agreement, synthesizing financial and operational data to support informed decision-making. Ensures data integrity and security across UNC Health Care's financial intelligence portfolio. Manages financial data requests from initiation through delivery, including defending methodologies and recommendations.
2. Leads Financial Project Management: Applies strong financial project management skills to define project scope, develop timelines, and prioritize deliverables. Coordinates cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with financial goals and deadlines.
3. Drives Financial Reporting Solutions: Drafts financial reporting requirements and collaborates with ISD partners to implement effective solutions. Manages ad hoc financial reporting requests and works to streamline and standardize recurring reports. Ensures consistency and clarity in financial reporting outputs.
4. Delivers Actionable Financial Analysis: Translates complex financial questions into clear, data-driven insights that support planning, forecasting, and quality improvement initiatives. Supports the development and interpretation of key performance indicators (KPIs) to enhance financial decision-making and organizational performance. Communicates findings to stakeholders, including executive leadership.

Education Requirements:
* Bachelor's degree in an appropriate discipline.
Licensure/Certification Requirements:
* No licensure or certification required.
Professional Experience Requirements:
* Three (3) years of experience performing analytics.
Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills along with ability to work with large, disparate data sets, performing data mining, validation and analysis to trend and interpret information. Excellent communication skills and able to interpret and tell the story of the data. Experience managing multiple and competing tasks/priorities with delivery deadlines in fast paced, complex environment. Great attention to detail and accuracy and must maintain excellent communications with customers especially with regard to data and information request and status. Proven experience distilling, breaking down and communicating complex data and information into insights that drive decisive action for nontechnical audiences. Demonstrated use of Business Objects, Excel, Access and PowerPoint are critical. Candidates must demonstrate all required qualifications.

Legal Employer: STATE

Entity: UNC Faculty Physicians

Organization Unit: FP Financial Services

Work Type: Full Time

Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00

Salary Range:$33.04 - $47.50 per hour (Hiring Range)

Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity

Work Assignment Type: Hybrid

Work Schedule: Day Job

Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill

Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes

This is a State position employed by UNC Health Care System with UNC Health benefits. If, however, you are presently an employee of another North Carolina agency and currently participate in TSERS or the ORP, you will be eligible to continue participating in those plans at UNC Health.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

UNC Health makes reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as applicants and employees with disabilities. All interested applicants are invited to apply for career opportunities. Please email applicant.accommodations@unchealth.unc.edu if you need a reasonable accommodation to search and/or to apply for a career opportunity.