Data Analyst

General Summary

• Is responsible for retrieving, interpreting, and analyzing data to drive key
• business decisions and actions, measure program efficacy and contribute to
• strategic direction. Working with other teams across the Revenue Cycle,
• participates as a catalyst for maintaining the data life cycle. Focusing on
• system strategic goals and objectives, assist customers with formulating
• appropriate data questions that will lead to analyses which will reveal relevant
• insights. Cleans and prepares data for analysis, ensuring applicability to
• business need. Engages in data profiling of raw data. Applies appropriate
• techniques and programming languages (e.g. R, Python, SQL) to identify patterns
• and trends, while reaching out to senior level analysts for assistance when
• needed. Assist stakeholders with interpreting results, at times applying
• visualization techniques (e.g. Microsoft Power BI). Collaborates with developers
• and end users to ensure technical requirements and specifications reflect
• appropriate business logic.This position will leverage the analytics spectrum to
• tell a story with the data, working with senior level analysts to ensure the
• application of the most appropriate approach for each business need. Applies
• these approaches to data from various sources, such as relational databases,
• data warehouses, data marts and tabular data models. Accesses data from
• third-party vendor tools. This position requires the soft skill of story-telling
• through data, by turning technical information into easy-to-understand
• non-technical action items. Confidence in presentation of findings and excellent
• communication skills are desired. Develops the ability to view business problems
• from varying perspectives and continuously display curiosity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Duties and Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Assist customers with formulating appropriate data questions to meet business

and strategic needs.

• Ability to take a business question or need and turn it into a data question

• for the purpose of transforming and analyzing the data to extract an answer
• to that question.

• Retrieve data from one or more sources and prepare the data for analysis.
• Engage in data profiling of raw data, including but not limited to, health

plan (i.e. claims), electronic health record, and third-party vendor data.

• Identify patterns and trends in the data using appropriate techniques and

programming languages.

• Participate in data exploration activities for the purpose of finding

interesting trends or relationships that could bring value to the business.

• Develop skill set to create clean, visually compelling charts &

• visualizations that will help others understand the data and relevant
• insights.

• Support the Revenue Cycle data and analytics strategy, processes, technical

architecture, and design of subject areas.

• Collaborate with developers and end users to ensure technical requirements

and specifications reflect appropriate business logic.

• Support system wide data integrity, quality control and standardization as

identified by system leaders and/or system level teams

• Common Expectations:
• Enhances professional growth and development through participation in

educational programs, current literature, in-service meetings, and workshops.

• Provides outstanding service to all customers; fosters teamwork; and

practices fiscal responsibility through improvement and innovation.

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications

Minimum Education

• High School Diploma or GED Required
• Bachelors Degree Preferred

Work Experience

• 5 years Mathematics, Finance, Statistics, or Computer science or related

field Required

• Licenses:
• Certified Health Data Analyst Upon Hire Preferred

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Math, statistical and analysis skills needed;
• Demonstrated proficiency with SQL query writing skills required;
• Knowledge of data modeling concepts desired;
• Experience with R, Python & other languages required;
• Strong teamwork/communication/customer service skills.

Benefits Offered

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Retirement savings plan
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Education assistance
• Financial education and support, including DailyPay
• Expanded Paid Parental Leave

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