Job Descriptions

About the role:

The Business, Analysis and Reporting (BAR) team is a key partner for the value streams across the Payment Integrity organization developing a deep understanding of the business operations and associated data to create and maintain the metrics, reporting, modeling, and analysis needed to measure performance while driving continuous improvement. This role will be part of a sub- team of 5, across Letterkenny and the U.S, supporting the Data Mining team.

The Senior Business Analyst will be a key member of the BAR team. The role will be Ireland based (Dublin or Letterkenny). The BAR team is responsible for; 1) Utilizing data to maximize savings potential through strategic initiatives, and 2) Delivery of accurate and timely delivery of reporting and analysis for Data Mining. This role will work closely with segment leads and production teams, and growth and exploratory teams within Data Mining.

The ideal candidate will:

• Be a Fast learner, analytical thinker, very detail oriented
• Have an analytical mindset and the ability to analyze, review, forecast and trend complex data for all Lines of business – M&R, C&S and E&I (Fully insured and ASO)
• Help with the preparation of presentations and presenting variance analyses explaining all significant variances to Optum and UHC business leaders
• Be organized: Keep the team informed of progress made towards all financial reporting deadlines and deliverables for those deadlines
• The ideal candidate will be able to manage multiple and rapidly changing priorities, execute with precision and deliver results with high accuracy and within stated time frames.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create written and oral communication materials that effectively summarize findings, and provides appropriate detail to substantiate conclusions for business review and planning
• Validation and presentation of all metrics, including savings, prior to Senior Leadership and Client review.
• Support timely delivery of scorecards with supporting analysis meeting all monthly deadlines including business performance against targets each month
• Collaborate with Pipeline and Portfolio team on new initiatives.
• Support and provide insight on trends and variances to target and projections.
• Evaluate gaps in business processes through process / data analysis and throughput issues to increase the opportunity for data Mining savings.
• Support the development and implement of strategic business solutions through research, innovation, and analysis to drive financial savings and operational efficiencies
• Conduct deep dive studies that may include collecting, analyzing, trending, and presenting recommendations to management to support strategic business activities
• Identify and analyze applicable source data (e.g., internal / external data feeds, systems, databases)
• Create, develop, enhance, integrate reporting / dashboards, and / or develop analyses to support business decisions

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Health Administration, related field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience in business or financial analysis
• Strong written and verbal communication, problem solving, leadership and analytical skills with a strong attention to detail for all deliverables
• Experience analyzing data and communicating your findings
• Ability to effectively prioritize and multi-task in high volume workload situations
• Strong organizational skills with the ability respond effectively in difficult situations
• Intermediate level of proficiency with Microsoft Office, with skills proficiency in Excel

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare Industry
• Experience of claims environment or operations
• Experience in financial reporting
• Experience working with Payment Policy or other value streams within Payment Integrity
• Self-starter that can work independently, as well as with the team
• Creative and Innovative thinker
• Analytical mindset
• Experience with SQL / Oracle or relational databases

Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Organisational Skills
• Self Starter
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Experience

• 5 years