Job Description: Healthcare Business Analyst
Locations: Chicago, IL | Minneapolis, MN
Salary Range: $75,000–$130,000 per year
Employment Type: Full-Time
Department: Healthcare Analytics / Business Operations
Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior-Level
Position Overview
We are seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Healthcare Business Analyst to support business operations, data analysis, workflow optimization, and reporting initiatives across healthcare systems and services. The ideal candidate will have experience gathering business requirements, writing SQL queries, analyzing healthcare data, and collaborating with clinical, operational, financial, and technical teams to drive data-informed decisions.
In this role, you will translate business needs into actionable requirements, evaluate existing workflows, develop meaningful reports, and identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency, data quality, and healthcare service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
1. Business Requirements Analysis
Gather, document, and validate business requirements from stakeholders across clinical, administrative, financial, and IT departments.
Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirement-gathering sessions.
Develop business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements for technical and operational teams.
Manage requirement changes and ensure alignment between business objectives and project deliverables.
2. SQL and Healthcare Data Analysis
Write and optimize SQL queries to extract, validate, and analyze data from healthcare databases.
Analyze operational, clinical, financial, claims, and patient service data, as applicable to the organization.
Identify data inconsistencies, trends, anomalies, and opportunities for process improvement.
Perform data validation, reconciliation, and quality checks to support accurate reporting.
Collaborate with data engineers, developers, and reporting teams to resolve data-related issues.
3. Workflow Analysis and Process Improvement
Assess existing business processes and workflows to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
Develop process maps, workflow diagrams, and current-state and future-state documentation.
Recommend process enhancements that improve productivity, reduce manual work, and support better service delivery.
Work with stakeholders to implement workflow changes and measure their effectiveness.
Support process standardization across departments and l