Associate 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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Communicating key analytic findings to client, and responsible for addressing client's analytic concerns
• Communicate clearly and effectively both orally and in writing; conduct meetings and make professional presentations
• Organize and manage time and resources; establish priorities and coordinate work on many projects simultaneously
• Providing both clinical and technical consulting to business leaders at an appropriate level of information encapsulation
• Work to gather, examine, and analyze data; write technical specifications for manipulating data to look for Fraud, abuse and waste patterns
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of project scope, data extraction methodology, design of dependent and profile variables, logic and design of data cleaning, exploratory data analysis and statistical methods
• Apply knowledge of clinical concepts, clinical and secondary research, statistics, machine learning, programming, data modeling, simulation and advanced mathematics to recognize patterns, identify opportunities, pose business questions, and make valuable discoveries to prototype development and product improvement. Actively consult with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure appropriate medical and business content is incorporated into analytic approaches
• Be able to work closely with Business Analysts, Data scientists and clinical & Domain SMEs to understand business needs and help define requirements for reporting solutions
• Ensures team gathers right requirements from the business stakeholders and Involve in, BI/BRD design and ensure that all specifications are complete, consistent, concise, and achievable
• Deliver robust and scalable analytic solutions in an automation ready state for payers and provider markets

• Collaborate with lines of business to understand their analytic needs, contribute to shaping business solutions and communicate results of analytics, participate in meetings business stakeholders, data experts, software/platform engineering, physicians to scope R&D use-cases and convert them into scope of work

• 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:

• Bachelor's or any higher degree in operational research, Business analytics, Applied mathematics/statistics with a quantitative emphasis 
• 5+ years of experience in conducting clinical and research-minded analysis of variety of healthcare data types/forms with aim to utilize this analysis into building or optimizing clinical solutions, with 2-3 years of experience in data analytics
• Medical coding/clinical certification like CPC OR CPC-H 
• Understanding of Payment Integrity Fraud waste and abuse (FWA) (geographies - US/UK/Middle East/Indian Healthcare)
• Working knowledge of basic SQL and Python is required 
• Self-drive knowledge accumulation of methods and modeling advances by reading research publications, blogs and attending presentations and webinars
• Proficiency in tools such as Microsoft Office Excel/Access/PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications:

• US Healthcare experience
• Scrum or other Agile development experience
• Knowledge of any BI tool like Tableau
• Proven Research Acumen - Patent/white papers

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.