Senior Business Analyst - Remote

Optum delivers technology-enabled healthcare and resources that help people live healthier lives. The Senior Business Analyst analyzes complex business and operational data, develops recommendations, and implements solutions to support strategic planning and business decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, review, forecast and trend complex data
• Present analysis and recommendations for operational and business review/planning
• Support short- and long-term operational/strategic business activities through analysis
• Develop, recommend, and implement business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes
• Comfortable working in a self-directed role where work is not perfectly prescribed, works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a resource to others

Requirements:

• • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• • 2+ years of experience in business/finance analysis
• • Experience with Data Visualization tools such as Tableau/Power BI
• • Experience using relational databases, for example SQL or Microsoft Access
• • Understands requirements from the client/business and turn those requirements into an appropriate analysis, report, dashboard, and/or scorecard
• • Intermediate level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including Vlookups and pivot tables
• • Intermediate level of proficiency in PowerPoint
• • BA/BS in MIS, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Business, or a related field
• • 3+ years of healthcare experience
• • Experience with clinical quality measures including Stars, HEDIS, and/or CAHPS
• • Familiar with ICD-10 codes and hierarchical condition categories, Medicare Advantage coding practices and risk adjustment
• • Understanding of Skilled Nursing Home care, advanced illness, and hospice
• • Intermediate level of programming knowledge (reporting code), database structures and design, systems design, data management, and data warehouse
• • All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy