Senior Business Intelligence Analyst; Financial

## Senior Business Intelligence Analyst (Financial)
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Chicago, IL:
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Shirley Ryan Ability Lab is the global leader in physical medicine and rehabilitation for adults and children with the most severe, complex conditions. By joining our team, you’ll be part of our life-changing mission and vision. You’ll contribute to an innovative, multifaceted culture that is second to none — one that embraces collaboration, excellence, discovery and compassion. You’ll play a role in something that’s never been done before as we integrate science and clinical care to help patients achieve better, faster outcomes — as we Advance Human Ability, together.##

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** Job Description Summary
** The Senior Financial Systems Analyst plays a critical role in transforming financial data into actionable insights through the development and optimization of reporting systems, dashboards, and analytics solutions. This role is responsible for identifying opportunities for financial and operational improvement by analyzing trends, ensuring data integrity, and collaborating with stakeholders across the organization. The Senior Financial Systems Analyst applies analytical skills in Tableau, and advanced Excel skills to leverage complex data in support of financial and operational objectives to drive strategic planning and decision making across the organization.

Candidate should be able to develop various data models including risk, predictive, and optimization. He/She is well-versed in data querying and analysis of internal health system data and has experience using financial/encounter-based software (i.e., Cerner, Epic). As a senior analyst, the candidate should be comfortable training junior analysts and leading cross-functional linked teams to address financial and/or systems issues.
The Senior Financial Systems Analyst will consistently demonstrate support of the Shirley Ryan Ability Lab statement of Vision, Mission, and Core Values by striving for excellence, contributing to the team efforts, and showing respect and compassion for patients and their families, fellow employees, and all others with whom there is contact at or in the interest of the institute.
The Senior Financial Systems Analyst will demonstrate Shirley Ryan Ability Lab Core Attributes:
Communication, Accountability, Flexibility/Adaptability, Judgment/Problem Solving, Customer Service and Core Values (Hope, Compassion, Discovery, Collaboration, & Commitment to Excellence) while fulfilling job duties.## ##
** Job Description
**** The Senior Financial Systems Analyst:
*** Develops and maintains robust, user-friendly dashboards and reports using business intelligence tools (e.g., Tableau, SSRS).
* Collaborates with Finance and Operations teams to understand reporting needs and delivers insights that support strategic and operational goals.
* Experience pulling data from EMR/EHR software.
* Analyzes financial and operational data to identify trends, variances, and improvement opportunities.
* Acts as a liaison between Finance, IT, and other departments to ensure alignment on data governance, reporting standards, and system improvements.
* Builds and maintains data models and pipelines using SQL and other tools to support scalable reporting and analysis.
* Provides expertise in financial metrics, forecasting, benchmarking, and performance tracking.
* Supports self-service BI by training users, creating data dictionaries, and promoting data literacy within the organization.
* Participates in or leads cross-functional initiatives that require financial and data analysis expertise.
* Ensures data accuracy and consistency across reporting systems and contribute to data quality initiatives.
* Translates complex data into clear, concise,…