Data Analyst/ Business Analyst Contract

Location –San Ramon, CA and Houston, TX
Duration: 12 Months
Roles & Responsibilities:
Works closely with Health & Medical’s (H&M) Global Business Support Manager in defining, designing and developing reporting/analytical needs and reports to support the H&M Strategy, business plan and priorities.
Displays 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 in order 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:
Bachelor’s degree.
Minimum 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.