Business Analyst, Data & Analytics

About this role

Job Summary:


In accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values, and strategic directions of Provincial Health Services Authority patient and employee 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.

Reporting to Manager/Director in Data and Analytics, the Business Analyst, Data & Evaluation, works in close collaboration with program leaders. The Business Analyst provides ongoing review, analysis and reporting of data from existing and emerging activities, services and initiatives, while ensuring data is valid, reliable and complete. The Business Analyst performs data analyses to generate comprehensive and valid reports. The Business Analyst will contribute to patient safety and quality initiatives, by providing data and metrics related to the strategic goals and performance of the program. The Business Analyst supports a variety of internal and external stakeholders in the planning of data and evaluation strategies related to quality improvement initiatives.

Duties/Accountabilities:

• Develops and produces program evaluation performance metrics and tools to provide accurate and high quality analysis of key indicators, including outcomes, quality and safety, data standards, in ensuring continuous quality improvement for BC Cancer.
• Ensures internal, external and public reporting needs are met by gathering and negotiating reporting requirements from customers and stakeholders, communicating requirements to technical resources and following up with stakeholders regularly to develop and implement an examination process for the final reports.
• Analyzes operational problems and recommends innovative solutions by critically evaluating information gathered from multiple sources, reconciling conflicts, decomposing high-level information into details, abstracting up from low-level information to a general understandin...