Business Analyst, OptumInsight - Rocky Hill, CT

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)

Use your Sharp Analytical Skills to help us support, compile and report key information! Drive processes and technology improvement initiatives for the products, using standard project methodology (requirements, design, test,  etc.). Use data to identify trends, patterns and opportunities for the business and clients.  Engage users in analysis and evaluation of functional models and prototypes; identify dependencies and priorities. Evaluate technology applications for use  by the user  community.  Produce, publish and distribute  scheduled and ad-hoc client and operational reports relating to the development and performance of products.

• Facilitate conversations with vendors and other outside sources


• Write business requirements, transform and test data


• Work with vendors to resolve any problems or issues regarding requirements


• Manage carrier relationships and the intake of data  on behalf of clients


• Evaluate the integrity of data  based on industry norms  or client specifications


• Assist in the conversion of internal processes from manual to automated through  coding and programming

Bring your talent to an industry leader with the information,  technology, and consulting expertise to help transform health and human services. No matter  what your role, you'll be empowered to ask more questions, develop better  solutions and help make  the health  care  system greater than ever.

Requirements:

• 2+ years of data  analyst and requirements gathering experience


• 2+ years of business analyst experience


• 2+ years of healthcare experience


• Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, Health administration  or related field


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


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  1+ years of experience with project methodology (requirements, design, development, test and implementation).



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



• Working knowledge of relational  databases, database structures.
  

Assets:

• Project management experience


• Data warehousing experience


• Experience with MS Office including Access


• Experience with Healthcare claims data


• Experience managing multiple priorities

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.