Business Analyst/ Quality Coordinator, Optum - Indianapolis, IN - Full-time / Part-time

We'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

Join us to conduct and manage outcomes of various studies that include analyzing, reviewing, forecasting, trending, and presenting information for operational and business planning. Support short and long term operational/strategic business activities - by developing, enhancing and maintaining operational information and models. Develop and implement effective/strategic business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes.

Responsibilities:

Anticipates needs of data warehouse users and proactively develops solutions to meet them.

Advise the State staff of Medicaid and Health Care industry trends

Provide support to data warehouse users in developing reports

Ensure data integrity

Ensure compliance with all data and information specifications

Ensure quality of reporting

Provide context and meaning to data and information

Provide recommendations for the management and utilization of data and information

Peform QA and quality coordination

Qualifications:

Five (5) years of successful data quality experience for government or private sector health care data warehouses projects of this large in size and complexity

Two (2) years' experience with health care data analysis and Medicaid management reports

Required Effective communication and writing skills

Bachelor's degree
 
Previous experience with Medicaid, MMIS development, management of projects that required collaboration with other vendors, and management of projects of similar large in size and complexity desirable
 
Previous experience with Business Intelligence Tools (Cognos or Business Objects) and SQL.
 
Intermediate level of proficiency with PC based software programs and automated database management systems required (Excel, Access, PowerPoint).

Demonstrated process improvement, workflow, benchmarking and / or evaluation of business processes required.

Excellent communication, time/project management, problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills required.

Working knowledge of relational databases, database structures.

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.