Business Analyst I
Position Highlights:
What We Offer:
What You'll Do: Prepares, analyzes, and interprets process and business intelligence information to assist department leadership in achieving financial, quality, process management and productivity goals. Utilizes business intelligence analysis to develop recommendations used to drive operational and strategic decisions. Provides oversight of process management in collaboration with leadership to identify key services and processes, through defining and documenting processes, selecting key process metrics and implementing process controls and improvements. Responsible for preparing business plans, reports and assigned special projects as aligned with department strategic initiatives.
1. Cultivates strategic relationships across the medical center and related departments to ensure the ability to efficiently gather information and data necessary for developing and driving strategic initiatives.
2. Manages the gathering, analysis, and reporting of departmental information, for strategic decision making.
3. Oversee and coordinate process management.
4. Performs financial and operational analysis to develop appropriate recommendations to drive financial and operations decisions for the department/business unit.
5. Coordinates the annual budgeting process, including annual expense budgets.
6. Prepares assigned business plans and special projects.
7. Develops and monitors data management systems.
8. Participates in Six Sigma project management as a Green Belt. 9. Demonstrates responsibility for personal development by participating in continuing education offerings and hospital activities
What You'll Need:
The ideal candidate will also possess the following skills:
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.

Atrium Health, part of Advocate Health, is redefining how, when and where care is delivered. We are rethinking methods of care delivery to reach more people and bringing human kindness to every step of their health journey. Our dedication to elevating health care for every individual, every teammate and every community is unwavering. We won't stop until everyone – no matter who they are or where they come from – has the possibility to live well. And because of this, we are redefining why we exist, our purpose as an organization and how we make it happen together as one.