Senior Business Analyst

Accelyst, LLC is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support strategic healthcare initiatives focused on Revenue Management, Payment Integrity, Data Quality, and Operational Excellence. This role involves acting as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to define requirements, improve processes, and ensure data integrity.

Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyze, document, and validate business, functional, and system requirements
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, operational teams, and technical teams
• Support Revenue Management, Payment Integrity, Claims, Provider, Membership, and Financial Operations initiatives
• Perform data analysis, data validation, reconciliation, and root cause analysis to ensure data quality and integrity
• Develop business requirements documents (BRDs), functional requirements, user stories, process flows, and use cases
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings, requirements workshops, and solution design sessions
• Execute and coordinate requirements management and change management processes
• Analyze existing business processes and recommend opportunities for improvement and operational efficiencies
• Support project planning activities including scope definition, impact assessments, risk identification, and solution evaluation
• Partner with business and IT teams to ensure requirements are properly translated into system solutions
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect management, and implementation activities
• Develop training materials, knowledge transfer documentation, and end-user support resources
• Lead or participate in cross-functional initiatives and provide guidance to junior analysts when needed
• Consider business implications of proposed solutions on current and future operational environments
• Provide reporting, metrics, and executive-level status updates as required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of Business Analyst experience
• Healthcare payer, health insurance, managed care, or healthcare operations experience
• Experience supporting Revenue Management, Revenue Cycle, Payment Integrity, Claims, Provider, Membership, or Financial Operations initiatives
• Strong experience with requirements gathering, documentation, and stakeholder management
• Experience performing data analysis, reconciliation, validation, and data quality assessments
• Experience supporting full project lifecycle activities from requirements through implementation
• Strong facilitation, communication, and relationship management skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Experience working with cross-functional business and technology teams
• Experience with Payment Integrity programs
• Knowledge of healthcare claims processing, reimbursement, and revenue management operations
• SQL experience for data validation and analysis
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or enterprise reporting tools
• Experience supporting enterprise PMO, governance, or transformation initiatives
• Agile and/or Waterfall project experience
• Healthcare payer systems experience
• Experience creating process maps, workflow diagrams, and business process documentation