Data 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.

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum. As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.

Optum is looking for an experienced, curious and self-motivated individual to join a team that will be responsible to partner with the business, build strong relationships, collaborate on opportunities, and provide subject matter expertise in terms of Reporting, Analytics and Business Intelligence solutions. The successful candidate will contribute bringing reporting solutions to our customers and support our organization creating and maintaining clear, strategic vision and a plan for bringing actionable, innovative analytics and reporting solutions to market.
We are looking for people who can collaborate cross-functionally, demonstrate exceptional attention to detail, have proven experience, and the ability to operate flexibly in a rapidly changing work environment. 

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Learn the complexities of the US Healthcare system
• Build, test and maintain data firewalls in collaboration with our Tech teams and impacted stakeholders
• Understand the process and oversee the onboarding of new clients into the organization
• Create and externalized contractually obliged reporting for our clients
• Create innovative reporting and analytics on our clients’ financial and drug utilization trends and performance metrics, enabling them to reach their goals.
• Build an internal network and understand the purpose and function of the teams who also support our clients
• Identify challenges and opportunities, develop solution and communicate to clients and internal stakeholders
• Perform analytics in line with organizational best practice, ensuring cross-functional alignment on methodologies

You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience in Data Analytics / Finance / Business intelligence roles or similar
• Experience analyzing data to develop business insight and strategy
• Complex problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to work collaboratively with multiple teams or departments for business growth or profitability goals
• Proven Data experience, data extraction, transformation and reporting
• Excellent understanding and knowledge of SQL
• Experience with Data visualization tools (Power BI / Tableau)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to code in scripting languages (Python / R)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to translate complex analytic results into meaningful insight, conveying complex or technical information in a manner that others can understand
• Strong ability to plan and manage numerous processes, people, and projects simultaneously
• Experience with Public Cloud technologies such as (Databricks, Azure, GCP, AWS)
• Using AI to improve processes
• External client management and reporting

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

 

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 marginalised 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. 

 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

 

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