Business Analysis Consultant - Optum Shared Services - Brentwood, TN - Full-time / Part-time

You are a thought leader who thrives on developing new solutions to solve tough challenges. As a critical member of our business analysis team, you will help rewrite the future of UnitedHealth Group. Here, your analytical and innovative skills will help us with our mission of helping people live healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. And we need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel that mission. Are you ready to analyze data and deliver bold, business-savvy ideas to impact the lives of millions?

As a Business Analysis Consultant, you will be empowered to support short and long term operational/strategic business activities; develop, enhance and maintain operational information and models that will have an impact on business decisions. In this leadership role, you will have the opportunity to take the contributions of analysts and create valuable solutions to improve the health care system. Join us! Your passion for performance can fuel your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze, review, forecast, and trend complex data


• Review the analysis and interpretation of others work


• Oversee ad-hoc client and operational reports developed and presented by others


• Present analysis and interpretation for operational and business review and planning


• Support short and long term operational/strategic business activities through analysis


• Develop and implement effective/strategic business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes


• Drive Financial and Operational Planning


• Provide expense guidance to P&L Leaders


• Develop FTE expense reporting


• Partner with Corporate Finance and provide forecasts and expense estimates
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business, Finance, Health Administration, related field or equivalent work experience


• 5+ year of experience in business/finance analysis


• Experience gathering requirements from the client/business and documenting                                      


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


• Intermediate level of proficiency with PC based software programs and automated database management systems required (Excel, Access, PowerPoint)


• Ability to communicate analysis including trends and opportunities to clients and the business in writing and verbally                                                   


• Ability to problem solve including multiple priorities and research conflicting and/or inaccurate data


• Working knowledge of relational databases, database structures
  

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system 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, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Job Keywords: business analysis, process improvement, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Brentwood, Tennessee, TN