Senior Business Analyst Cancer Informatics and Analytics BC Cancer Agency

Job Summary: In accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values, and strategic directions of Provincial Health Services Authority patient safety is a priority and a responsibility shared by everyone at PHSA, and as such, the requirement to continuously improve quality and safety is inherent in all aspects of this position. The Senior Business Analyst, Cancer Informatics and Analytics is an integral part of the team responsible for providing leadership and analytical support for performance monitoring, operational planning and process improvement needs to various clinical, operational and research programs across BCCA. This role will also provide application support for all related BI tool and application warehouses like CAIS/Cerner and other clinical information systems within BCCA. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Cancer Analytics and Performance Management, the Senior Business Analyst will lead performance monitoring and analytics initiatives within the BCCA. The position will have a deep understanding of cancer agency workflows and programs and will support operational and research program leaders in the development of Key Performance Indicators and reports to monitor performance, and provide analytical support to drive performance improvement. The Senior Consultant, Analytics will have an active role in various data governance and data quality activities. In addition, this role will require broad systems understanding of MOH priorities around reporting requirements to facilitate and support Cancer Care planning in this province. Duties/Accountabilities: • Leads and supports cancer care program services planning and performance monitoring through the development of reports using various BI tools, direct data extraction and analysis. Provides specialized knowledge, analytical, and technical expertise in information management processes utilizing a deep understanding of data standards in relation to establishing quality reports; • Lead and support the formal data collection and analysis to help identify system deficiencies and/or operational inefficiencies in order to report and develop new ways of improving business efficiencies including the data analysis related to business case developments, project proposals, and other key strategic and transformative initiatives; • Support BCCA executives and senior program leaders with cancer care program health services planning, as well as, ongoing operational reporting requirements through the analytics of data with a deep understanding of performance metrics and benchmarking; • Ensures the quality, accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of the data and reports available within our current clinical application and data warehouse environment (ie CAIS and BI tools) through meticulous testing, automated and manual data reviews, performance monitoring, contingency planning, consistency reviews, and other methods as appropriate; • Leads the analysis, design, and documentation of multi-dimensional data cubes, ETLs, BI reports, and interfaces to support operations and research functions of BCA, collaborating with PHSA Performance Measurement and Reporting and other project team members as needed. This includes gathering requirements from stakeholders; negotiating changes in the context of the vision of the current (ie CAIS, Pharmacy, Screening and Radiation Therapy) and future data warehouse; defining appropriate cube dimensions, measures, and attributes; translating user requirements to technical requirements for any BI development, designing reports; researching solutions; and implementing change management • Ability to develop costing projections and models based on operational and research data to support various reports and cancer service planning. • Develop high-quality presentations with a strong understanding of developing meaningful communication materials “right communication, right content ad right audience” Qualifications: A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a Master’s in Health Information Management, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Statistics or related discipline plus 5 years of experience in health information management and/or 3 years of recent experience in health services planning, data warehousing, data analytics and use of BI tools. This role requires a superior degree of critical-thinking and analytical skills with the ability to integrate broad system thinking/perspective with data to develop quality reports, operational plans and monitor on-going performances. This role also requires superior written skills with a high degree of producing concise, structured and very well written documents and reports. Understanding of the Systems Development Life Cycle and project management methodology. Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to express complex ideas in simple terminology appropriate for the audience. Demonstrated ability to use database, spreadsheets, word-processing, powerpoint and other software at advanced level. Advanced analytics knowledge (e.g. mathematical programing, computer simulation, decision processes), professional project management and/or Lean/Six-sigma certification considered an asset. Physical ability to perform the duties of the job. Knowledge and adherence to privacy and confidentiality policies and measures to protect data. Ability to work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team, while working independently to organize workload, set priorities, and meet deadlines in a dynamic environment. Physical ability to perform the duties of the position. Ability to use query- and report-writing tools is an asset.

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