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Ascension is seeking a Senior Business Data Analyst / BI Analyst to support a federal health enterprise operations and efficiency effort for CMS. The ideal candidate will help translate business, operational, compliance, and performance requirements into meaningful data products, dashboards, reports, KPI briefings, and decision-support tools.

This position is important because CMS requires contractor support that can improve enterprise operations, strengthen performance visibility, support strategic reporting, and enable data-driven decision-making across complex programs and initiatives. The successful candidate should be comfortable working with program managers, policy teams, technical staff, and executive stakeholders to understand business needs, define measures, analyze data, identify trends, and present findings in a clear and actionable format.

Ascension is looking for a candidate who brings strong analytical judgment, business process understanding, data visualization skills, and the ability to work in a fast-paced federal consulting environment. This role is best suited for someone who is detail-oriented, self-driven, organized, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to convert complex information into practical recommendations for leadership decision-making.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Senior Business Data Analyst will support data collection, validation, analysis, reporting, and dashboard development across enterprise operations, program integrity, compliance, strategic reporting, and performance management activities. The candidate will help define KPIs, develop recurring and ad hoc reports, analyze operational trends, support data quality reviews, prepare executive-level briefings, and recommend workflow or process improvements based on findings.

The role requires someone who can work independently with limited supervision, gather requirements from stakeholders, identify reporting gaps, develop analytical use cases, and present information in a way that supports decision-making. The candidate should be able to use tools such as Microsoft Excel, Power BI, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, and other Microsoft 365 applications. Experience with Tableau, SQL, Power Automate, or federal data/reporting environments is preferred.

Day-to-Day Activities

• Analyze business, operational, compliance, and performance data to identify trends, risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop dashboards, scorecards, reports, and executive briefing materials using tools such as Power BI, Excel, Tableau, and PowerPoint.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into analytic use cases, reporting requirements, data tables, metrics, and visualization concepts.
• Define and track KPIs, performance measures, risk indicators, and reporting milestones.
• Validate data for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and usability before reporting to project leadership or government stakeholders.
• Integrate data from multiple sources to support performance management, program integrity, strategic reporting, and operational decision-making.
• Prepare briefing decks, decision-support models, analytic summaries, and implementation memos for client review.
• Support data calls, reporting cycles, stakeholder meetings, and leadership briefings.
• Identify process inefficiencies and recommend data-informed workflow improvements.
• Maintain trackers, reporting calendars, action item logs, and analytic documentation.
• Collaborate with project managers, SMEs, technical staff, and government stakeholders to ensure analysis aligns with mission needs.
• Support development of repeatable templates, reporting processes, dashboards, and data management procedures.
• Communicate findings clearly through written reports, visual narratives, dashboards, and presentations.