Healthcare Data and Report Analyst - Meridian, ID

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 operational analytical skills to design/develop, program, maintain and publish reports. Make solid recommendations based on the analysis and provide explanations for reporting results for both internal operations and our customers. You must be self-directed and creative as you will deal with some very interesting and complex issues. As a key resource to others you must maintain a high degree of accuracy along with attention to detail, excellent oral and written communication skills, strong interpersonal skills and the ability to always meet deadlines.
Healthcare Data Reporting Analyst
The Healthcare Data Reporting Analyst position will be dedicated to the Optum Idaho Medicaid behavioral health operation and will report to the local Reporting & Analytics Director. This position will have contact with local clinical staff and Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (IDHW) technical staff.
Primary Responsibilities:

Responsible for designing/developing, programming, maintaining and publishing operational reports
Implement, monitor and manage operational and customer report delivery
Provides operational analysis utilized for decision making. May make recommendations based on the analysis, and provide explanations for reporting results as needed
Supports internal operational purposes as well as customers
Management of report analysis and delivery including research of data source issues with local operational staff and remote technical staff
Initiative corrective action plans to resolve issues impacting report quality
Occasional business analysis responsibilities to include gathering and documenting business requirements for new or changing business functions
 

Required Qualifications:

Undergraduate degree, or comparable experience
3+ years of experience performing significant data analysis and report development
3+ years of data and programming experience (SQL, Hyperion, SAS, Tableau, SQL Server and Crystal Reports)
Intermediate level of programming knowledge (reporting code) and of relational databases, database structures and design, and data warehouse
Proficient with PC based software programs (Advanced Excel, Access, PowerPoint)
Ability to communicate analysis including trends and opportunities to clients and the business in writing and verbally
Self-driven, proactive problem solver/solution oriented
Intermediate level experience with Microsoft Excel (complex formulas, pivot tables, graphs)
Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Finance, Health Administration, or related field
Working knowledge of claims or equivalent healthcare claims system
Behavioral Healthcare and Medicaid systems experience
Experience documenting business requirements and/or workflows
Crystal Report skills and SQL Server experience
Experience writing stored procedures
Experience with SQL Server and Sybase
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 t o 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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