Sr. RCM Business Analyst
Listed on 2025-12-02
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Business
Business Systems/ Tech Analyst, Data Analyst, Business Analyst
- Facility Corporate - Enterprise Allocations
- Schedule - Shift - Hours Full Time - Days
The Sr. Business Analyst is responsible for driving data-informed decisions, identifying opportunities for improvement, and translating complex operational needs into actionable technical requirements. This position plays a key role in delivering insights that improve financial performance, enable accurate forecasting, streamline revenue operations, and optimize the end-to-end Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) lifecycle.
The ideal candidate has a strong background in trend analysis, Net Revenue Per Visit (NRPV) modeling, payer mix evaluation, financial forecasting, process improvement with proven experience in stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration. This role also requires advanced SQL skills, fluency in working with EMR data, and the ability to communicate insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including executive leadership.
Essential Duties and ResponsibilitiesThis list may not include all of the duties that may be assigned.
- Partner with stakeholders across clinical, billing, and operational teams to understand revenue drivers, business needs, challenges, and goals.
- Conduct in-depth trend and variance analysis across the revenue cycle, identifying revenue leakage, payer underperformance, or coding opportunities. and recommending data-driven strategic actions.
- Perform and maintain Net Revenue Per Visit (NRPV) calculations and modeling to monitor payer performance and support financial benchmarking decision-making.
- Analyze existing business processes and workflows, identify inefficiencies, and propose practical, measurable solutions.
- Lead the development of financial forecasting tools, incorporating historical trends, seasonal patterns, payer behavior, and utilization rates to project expected revenue and identify deviations.
- Translate complex business needs into functional and technical specifications for analytics, automation, or system enhancements.
- Extract, interpret and leverage data from EMR and billing systems to support advanced analytics and forecasting, to uncover operational gaps and financial opportunities.
- Develop, build, and maintain robust dashboards, KPI-driven interactive reports, and ad-hoc analyses using SQL, Excel, and tools such as Power BI and Databricks to monitor financial performance and operational efficiency in real time.
- Support project management in planning, tracking, and delivering key initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
- Evaluate payer contract performance, reimbursements, and denial trends; support negotiation strategies through data insights.
- Lead process improvement initiatives, identifying operational bottlenecks and recommending actionable, scalable solutions.
- Provide change management support by facilitating stakeholder alignment, process documentation, training, and adoption tracking.
- Collaborate with finance and executive leadership to inform budget development, revenue projections, and scenario planning.
- Support risk analysis efforts, especially related to shifts in patient volume, payer policy, or regulatory updates that may impact forecast accuracy.
- Ensure that all analytical solutions and recommendations are aligned with organizational goals and result in measurable value creation.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to junior analysts and contribute to building a high-performing analytical culture.
Supervising Business Analysts
Qualifications Education- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, accounting, finance or related field required.
- 5 years of healthcare experience is commensurate to the education required.
2-3 years of related work experience.
Knowledge,Skills and Abilities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Great analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities.
- Detail-oriented with proficient data analysis tools and methodologies.
- Proven management and organizational skills to meet deadlines.
- Strong adaptability and capacity to work in fast-paced environments.
- In-depth understanding of organizational data flow and its use in management decision-making.
- Bachelor's degree or higher in business analysis, business administration, finance or related field.
- Excel, Tableau, and SQL Proficiency.
- May be full time remote/telework
- This job can be either US or MX based
- Indoor work; professional office environment
- Operating computer
- May require sitting or standing for long periods, including stooping, bending, stretching
- Lift up to 10lbs
- Requires manual dexterity sufficient to operate a keyboard, type at 35 wpm, operate copier, and other office equipment
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