Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Durham, NC

Type: Contract

Category: Business Analysis

Industry: Insurance

Standard Hours: Open

Reference ID: JN -112026-109484

Date Posted: 11/12/2026

Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/zeIX8a

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Description:

Hybrid (x1 to 2 days onsite per week) in Durham, NC

Our client seeks a Business Analyst to support a high-visibility healthcare transformation program. The analyst will elicit and manage business and functional requirements, facilitate stakeholder sessions, and drive business readiness for complex initiatives. The role will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure solution scope alignment, traceability, and post-implementation measurement. Healthcare domain experience will be valuable.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $35.00 to $40.00/hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyze, document, and manage requirements for changes to business processes, policies, information, and information systems for larger and complex business problems.

• Develop and elicit requirements for departmental and corporate projects; prepare business and functional requirements.

• Communicate and validate requirements with stakeholders and identified SMEs.

• Ensure creation of and adherence to a requirements approach and management plan aligned to the overall project plan; maintain requirements traceability.

• Drive and execute business readiness activities including communication plans to support changes to technology, processes, and people.

• Support training and conduct focused analysis to ensure efficiency of project implementations and desired results.

• Develop procedures and specifications for system changes or other solution recommendations; work with cross-functional teams to implement changes.

• Design and conduct post-implementation audits and create customer feedback mechanisms; analyze results and create plans to address weaknesses.

• Identify business process and organizational impacts; conduct workflow analysis, testing, and implementation; manage requirements change requests and documentation.

• Develop and maintain reporting tools to measure business performance against metrics and benchmarks; ensure data integrity and systems stability.

• Provide timely access to data, distribute reports, and present results to supported areas; collaborate with trainers to develop programs that target problem areas.

• Use and promote industry-standard techniques such as data flow modeling, use-case analysis, workflow analysis, business process mapping, functional decomposition, and financial ROI modeling.

• Create effective presentations for leadership and document assumptions, procedures, and results for executive and management review.

• Proactively identify areas of potential business risk, recommend mitigation, and escalate as necessary.

• Build and support strong vendor relationships by documenting issues, determining project needs, and supporting training.

• Provide oversight and perform peer reviews for less experienced analysts.

Experience Requirements:

• Ability to facilitate large meetings and write functional requirements and user stories.

• Healthcare experience.

• 5+ years of experience in a related field.

• Healthcare, health plan, or insurance industry experience preferred.

Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree. In lieu of a degree, 7+ years of experience in a related field.

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Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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