Business Analyst Consultant - Eden Prairie, MN or Overland Park, KS - 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:

The gathering of business requirements to support operational process improvements and client implementations of OPI payment integrity services
Gain extensive understanding of OPI business processes and application architecture to serve as a valuable resource for understanding what should be captured to ensure high quality requirements
Delivering process flows and use cases, both current and future state
Creation of Business Area Context Diagrams (BACDs) and consulting with Solution Architects as they develop architectural and system process flows
Leading requirements walk - through sessions to gain consensus resulting and  sign off in order to initiate development for technology related projects or the implementation of new or enhanced business processes
Developing User Acceptance Testing strategies in conjunction with end users
Directing User Acceptance Testing execution
Managing defect reporting and resolution of important testing activities performed by business SMEs
3+ years of business analysis experience in a fast paced, quality - focused environment
Effective interpersonal influence, collaboration and listening skills
Exceptional communication skills and experience working across many levels of an organization
Rigorous attention to detail and follow through
Ability to support multiple concurrent projects and meet delivery timelines
Self - motivated professional who can work independently or closely with PMO project and program managers

 Required Qualifications:

Previous client and company presentation experience
5+ years of experience in healthcare
Six Sigma (Greenbelt, Blackbelt), ISO-9000 or other quality certification
Business process knowledge related to technical applications within UHG-IT and / or Optum Payment Integrity would be a differentiator (Examples: Claims Highway, EDI intake, claims adjudication platforms, data warehouses, and operations applications like WOW, Detects, CSI)
Knowledge of Payment Cycle Management processes
Leadership skills and the ability to drive the completion of deliverables on time and with appropriate rigor & urgency
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: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and 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.
 
 
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