Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Company: Partnership HealthPlan of California
Location: Fairfield
Posted on: May 7, 2022

Job Description:

Overview:To support the financial reporting and analytical processes by analyzing complex healthcare cost drivers. Develops, coordinates, and is directly involved in projects and activities that help drive business decisions, affect provider reimbursement programs. Plays a key role in the preparation, analysis, and review of the Rate Development Templates (RDT) and Supplemental Data Requests (SDR). Applies analytics and research to healthcare related topics such as homelessness, inpatient hospitalization, and chronic disease to determine financial implications and areas for potential cost savings/improvement. Works collaboratively with staff in Finance/Accounting in the ongoing analysis and reporting of all aspects of the income statement and other operating metrics.Responsibilities:

• Develops, interprets, and implements financial models and concepts for financial planning and analysis.
• Creates, maintains, and updates complex financial analysis and reporting models to ensure the accuracy, validity, and reliability of the model and the data.
• Adapts the financial analysis and reporting models to meet the growing and changing needs of the HealthPlan and to reflect changes in the regulatory environment.
• Lead Analyst on the annual RDT and periodic SDR requests from DHCS.
• Assists in the training of other Finance Analysts by serving as an experienced mentor.
• Designs, implements, and improves executive level financial presentations, including dashboards for executive leadership, Finance Committee and Board of Directors.
• Supports management in making data driven decisions by providing clear and accurate financial insights.
• Collaborates with management and cross-function teams to understand programmatic changes along with strategic initiatives.
• Designs and generates decision support tools that focus on membership, utilization, trends, State capitation rates and provider contracting. Based on detailed analytics, creates actionable information that results in identifying trend drivers and opportunities for improvement.
• Prepares and presents data interpretation and recommendations at a level understood by diverse audiences including staff, all levels of management, physicians, board of directors, and external customers.
• Works on complex problems and provides solutions that are innovative and sophisticated to achieve high quality work process improvements.
• Connects healthcare metrics with fiscal implications and synthesizes findings to identify major drivers and areas for potential savings.
• Introduces new tools and resources to the Department and Organization for data modeling and/or presentations.
• Participates in special projects and assignments as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.Qualifications:Education and Experience
  Graduate degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics or related field required; minimum eight (8) years' progressive experience in healthcare FP&A; experience leading and directing detailed data analysis projects; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
  Special Skills, Licenses and Certifications
  Strong working knowledge of managed care financial principles, experience with MediCal managed care desired. Detailed knowledge of healthcare industry reporting requirements, terminology and policies. Strong data management, audit control, version management, and reconciliation management skills required. Ability to conduct statistical analysis and techniques. Advanced experience working with databases (e.g. SQL Server) and large datasets is required. In-depth experience in developing and implementing Business Intelligence solutions (reports, metrics, dashboards, and scorecards). Programming experience (SAS, Oracle, SQL, R, Python). Proficient in Tableau or other data visualization programs.
  Performance Based Competencies
  Must demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, as well as strong presentation skills: ability to clearly communicate complex information to diverse audiences. Ability to communicate data needs to various customers (internal and external) in order to compile and produce necessary reports. Excellent analytical, problem solving, investigative and research ability. Ability to work in a team environment, take and give direction, follow through with tasks and projects, compromise, negotiate and achieve consensus decisions, support consensus decisions, be flexible and adaptable to changes in assignments and the work environment, work independently, manage time efficiently and multi-task effectively. Ability to determine appropriate courses of action in complex situations that may not be addressed by existing policies or procedures. Ability to make decisions that require significant analysis and investigation with solutions requiring original thinking.
  Work Environment And Physical Demands
  Ability to use a computer keyboard and 10-key calculator. More than 70% of work time in front of a computer monitor. When required, ability to move, carry, or lift objects of varying size, weighing up to 10 lbs.
  All HealthPlan employees are expected to:
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    Provide the highest possible level of service to clients;
  • Promote teamwork and cooperative effort among employees;
  • Maintain safe practices; and
  • Abide by the HealthPlan's policies and procedures, as they may from time to time be updated.
    IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTICE
    The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive or definitive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations, or work environment change.

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