Business Analyst, Crimson Business Intelligence

The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO)

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The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO), a professional and technology services firm serving 2,500 of the country's preeminent hospitals and healthcare systems, is rapidly expanding its portfolio of technology solutions to provide hospitals with clearer insight into their financial, operational and clinical businesses. Through Advisory Board Compass Solutions, we aim to empower hospitals to achieve business performance goals through faster, data-driven decision-making. We currently offer tools covering a variety of content areas including revenue cycle management, surgery, supply chain management, nursing, quality, and physician performance.

The Crimson Initiative is an ASP that provides Physician Management software to Hospitals.  The data analysis platform generates detailed physician profiles that encompass quality performance, adherence to pre-defined order sets and resource utilization. Designed to work with a hospital's existing data, the software automatically creates visually compelling profiles for all physicians, departments and groups at the facility, compares performance levels to severity-adjusted peers and measures compliance to the organization's goals and best practices.

Business Analyst, Crimson Business Intelligence

 The Business Analyst will report to the Vice President of Services and will be responsible making sure that our operations are successful on an ongoing basis.  This person will also be responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction, and for implementing the processes and structure that allow the company to scale.  The role is customer facing and will require the Business Analyst to interact with clients on a daily basis. 

Major responsibilities include:

• Defining client objectives in partnership with Advisory Board and hospital-based staff for a group of assigned clients
• Designing and leading custom implementation strategy based on nature and accessibility of client data
• Working with client staff and a third-party partner to extract available data; devising creative solutions to accommodate partial data sets
• Troubleshooting technical and non-technical challenges
• Analyzing client data to identify immediate improvement opportunities
• Developing presentation and report deliverables for a group of assigned clients
• Providing ongoing technical and business support, including further customizations to the toolset itself

 Candidate selection is based on a range of attributes:

• Strong academic record
• Project and client management experience
• Analytical reasoning and aptitude with quantitative analysis (MS Access and/or Excel experience)
• Familiarity with IT systems, database design, and data structures
• Creativity and innovative thinking
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Passion to work in a challenging startup environment
• Extreme commitment to quality
• Relationship-building skills
• Highly organized with the ability to juggle multiple tasks
• Technical aptitude for learning new technologies
• Strong attention to detail
• 1-3 years of professional experience preferred
• Technical undergraduate degree (e.g. CS, EE, MIS) preferred

This position will be based in Austin, TX, or Washington, DC, and require minimal travel - less than 10%

Benefits:  Consistent with our belief that our employees are our most valuable resource, The Advisory Board Company offers a competitive benefits package, including a comprehensive health plan, a 401(k) plan, an Employee Stock Purchase Plan, a daytime leave policy for community service, a medical flexible spending account, and additional attractive benefits.