PTS Advance has an opportunity for a Business Analyst III. This position is located in the city of San Ramon California.  Candidates must be local to the San Ramon area. A 1-year contract that could be extended. Drug test and background check required.

Work sched: 5/8's or 9/80

Max pay rate: $50 hr. DOE

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Health & Medical's (H&M) Global Business Support Manager, to  define, design, and developing reporting/analytical needs and reports to support the H&M Strategy, business plan and priorities.
• Display proficient Business Analyst skills and related experience (e.g., requirements gathering, system documentation, etc.)
• Design, development, and maintenance of ongoing and ad-hoc metrics, reports, and analyses, to drive key business decisions.
• Enable effective decision making by retrieving and aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a digestible and actionable format.
• Ability to prioritize efforts that address concurrent demands arising from projects, schedules, prioritized business initiatives and activities.
• Develop mechanisms and metrics to track stakeholder satisfaction and drive projects to continuously improve satisfaction scores.
• Provides timely reporting on project deliverables to Project Managers, including the identification of risks and mitigations, issues impacting the project schedule, changes in deliverable scope, etc.
• Provides data analysis, visualization and develops analytical tools to evaluate internal and external trends and support H&M program recommendations.
• Maintains strong analytical ability including a demonstrated ability to develop, present and monitor analytical business cases and project plans.
• Maintains good understanding of customer support requirements, business priorities, processes to use expertise to offer continual support and future enhancements.
• Support process improvement activities associated with process inefficiencies and/or new functions currently not performed in day-to-day operations.
• Maintains familiarity with H&M Global Medical Database system application software, and other H&M applications.
• Maintains strong interpersonal, influencing and communication skills and ability to interact at all levels of the organization.

Required Qualifications:

• BS degree with a minimum of 5 years' experience in an analytics-related field.
• Experience with health data or metrics supporting business strategic focus areas, data integration and analytics - proven experience in delivering advanced analytic solutions and capabilities and working with a wide range of data tools, e.g., SQL, Access/Excel, JQuery, HTML.
• Demonstrated depth in analytics and analytics storytelling (e.g., statistics, data analysis, data wrangling). Ability to present data in a variety of formats (pictorial, graphic, verbal) to communicate meaningful insights/recommendations effectively.
• Demonstrated technical competency in reporting technologies such as PowerBI or other reporting technologies.
• Demonstrated understanding of business processes, as well as the ability to translate information into reporting specifications.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel, including chart development and formula development for statistical analysis.
• Proficient in SharePoint sites - design, development, and administration
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Skilled at organizing and facilitating problem-solving discussions.
• Experience working with diverse group of people.