This position exists to assist the organization in making strategic data-related decisions by designing and executing quantitative and qualitative analysis for business areas and providing recommendations for decision making under uncertainty. Provides analytical expertise to identifying opportunities for sustained business improvement. This position may serve as a lead providing oversight accountability for a team.
Essential Functions:
- In collaboration with business clients and data teams, provide information analysis and analytical modeling support:
- Participate in operationalizing conceptually defined variables and translating specific business issues and questions into appropriate functional and analytic designs.
- Participate in designing and interpreting analyses of data, providing recommendations in suppport of critical business decisions.
- Prepare presentations that communicate complex analysis and findings in a simple, consise and interpretable manner.
- Supports strategic management decision-making.
- Identify information gaps, provide recommendations and and initiate appropriate activitiy or escilation.
- Regularly use SAS, PC-based spreadsheet, database, and statistical software to produce quantitative analyses and reports.
- Actively contribute to multiple analytical efforts by collaborating through project documentation, data extraction from various data repositories and subsequent data summarization, manipulation, display, and presentation preparation.
- This Information Analyst will work independently with client and other contractor staff at an advanced professional level and is expected to be articulate, prepared, and knowledgeable in those encounters.
- Data management and analytic responsibilities require linkage of multiple large databases and the development and maintenance of moderate to very large sized research databases for use in data analysis and tracking.
- Produce graphs and tables for reports, presentations and publication.
- Carefully document all programs, data sets and analyses.
- Report analyst duties, e.g. design and develop automated actionable reports to inform managers in a timely fashion.
- Data analyst duties, e.g. assists in the research, analysis, and remediation of moderately complex data issues that directly impacts reporting and analysis.
- Business systems analyst duties, e.g., help define business rules applicable to the development and/or use of the application.
- Perform other duties as requested.
Qualifications:
Basic Qualifications:
- Five (5) years of analytical experience.
- BS/BA degree in a quantitative or technical discipline, OR equivalent knowledge and experience.
- Expert knowledge with BI and analytical tools such as SAS, SPSS and Cognos.
- Proven skills in project management, including the following attributes: efficient, collaborative, candid, open, and results-oriented.
- Establish clear performance contracts and project workplans.
- Strong working knowledge in the use of current SQL software, including SAS/SQL, Oracle and Teradata, and Microsoft Office.
- Proven ability to conduct, interpret and present quantitative/qualitative analysis.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills (1:1, peer, multi-disciplinary group, presentations, written).
- Be assertive, objective and be able to confront clients with difficult issues.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Two (2) years of health care or insurance experience, preferred.
- Advanced degree in a quantitative or technical discipline, preferred.
- Expertise in multiple business units (service delivery, insurance, finance), preferred.
- Specific and broad knowledge of KPNW operations, KP applications, and KP HealthConnect, including Hyperspace, Clarity and Chronicles, preferred.
- Systems Administrator experience preferred.
-Business Objects experience preferred.
Salary Range:
$81,100 - $111,100
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.