Business Analyst

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

When you’re setting the pace for change, it’s not only challenging, it’s exhilarating. We’re building new health care solutions right and left and shaping the system as we go to help millions live healthier lives. That’s why we need Business Analysts who can keep up and dig deep. When you join us, you’ll drive processes and improvement initiatives that have an impact on healing the health system. Sound like your kind of challenge? Join a Fortune 6, industry leader and find out how you can be a part of something life changing for millions.

Here’s the thing about challenges. They provide limitless opportunities for greatness. And what we have in mind for you is big. At UnitedHealth Group, we’re changing the future of health care and we have the expertise, advanced technology, and global resources to make it happen.

As a Senior Business Analyst, you’ll work with the brightest minds in the business and find yourself digging deep to find the solutions to help people live healthier lives. You’ll be responsible for analyzing, reviewing, and ensuring quality reporting on regular operational reporting in order to communicate data for business planning to impact the health care system.  Candidates for this role will be curious, logical and analytical thinkers. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Analyze, review, forecast and trend complex data
• Present analysis and recommendations for operational and business review/planning
• Support short- and long-term operational/strategic business activities through analysis
• Develop, recommend, and implement business solutions through research and analysis of data and business processes
• Coordinate, produce, and partner with business partners to support scheduled operational reports relating to the development and performance of products, processes, and technologies
• Stakeholders management: Know your stakeholders, able to collaborate independently to capture requirements and deliver expected outputs (Self and Team). Able to provide regular update to stakeholders (Internal and external both)
• Documentation: Employee able to document MOMs properly and design SOPs basis discussion
• Focused on the task given and able to complete with accuracy within the TAT while having attention to details
• Shift Timings: Day/Evening (comfortable working in shifts basis the client requirement)
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in related field
• 5+ years of experience in business or financial analysis using MS Excel, SQL, VBA and BI Tools
• 2+ years of experience and proficient level of Skills in building Alteryx flow
• 2+ years of experience and proficient level of Skills in building Tableau based BI solutions
• Experience building/maintaining working forecast models, including creating visual representations of data
• VBA experience (Application of Loops, functions, Declaration of variables, Record macro and edit, writing codes)
• Experience in Business intelligence tools (Power BI, Tableau or any other) to create visualization from given dataset
• Working knowledge of relational databases, database structures; Advance SQL (Able to write SQL queries to fetch data from server, dynamic/nested queries, Joins, able to create tables, views)
• Advance Excel (Proven expert in formulas, Pivot tables, Charts, Power Query)
• Proven data analytical skills: Expert in dealing with large datasets with ease and callout inferences/queries in desired format (Covering regular + Adhoc reports)
• Power point: Proven ability to create decks for leadership, Status update on projects or given tasks and teams performance
• Proven verbal communication: Employee should be fluent in English speaking and able to present story to leadership on his reports
• Proven written communication: Ability to comprehend the message in email and  draft suitable response accordingly. Able to frame sentences properly

Preferred Qualification:

• Claims data and analysis experience will be helpful in this role

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.