Associate Data Analyst

Sanford Health is a rural health system dedicated to transforming the health care experience and providing access to health care. The Associate Data Analyst supports database integration and maintenance, develops reports and dashboards, analyzes complex data, and provides accurate information for business decisions and performance improvement.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in data integration to and maintenance of applicable databases and supporting databases
• Seek out additional information, knowledge and training to further understand the database system
• Learn, understand and analyze process workflows within various functional areas to best understand improvements and associations, specifically with relation to data reporting, extraction and analytics
• Work with the team to design, develop, document, test and deploy custom reports, and data exports
• Provide accurate information to support enterprise business and communication decisions
• Collect, organize, segment, analyze, validate and disseminate information to communicate performance, as compared to identified key performance indicators
• Use database reporting environment to assist in the development and deployment of standard, ad-hoc and custom reports, communications and dashboards in a manner suitable to those receiving it, including both internal and external recipients
• Implement processes, including potential automation, to streamline the extraction of data that results in accurate, user-friendly reports, analytics and mass communications
• Identify, analyze, research and interpret trends or patterns within complex data sets to provide recommendations and possible solutions
• Use logic and intuition to make inferences about the meaning of the data and arrive at conclusions that translate to performance measurement, improvement and outcomes
• Monitor and analyze return on investment of various activities
• Work with all areas of the organization to develop an understanding of business requirements and goals to provide best service
• Proactively seek improvement and monitor feedback to make suggestions for information system modifications needed to support effective and accurate reporting and analysis for the organization

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required
• In lieu of education, leadership may accept 4 years of applicable work experience
• Previous experience in business, finance, data science, statistics, information management, analytics, fundraising or related field is preferred
• Previous experience operating reporting and analytic tools is preferred