Business and Financial Analyst
Overview
The Business and Financial Analyst supports the strategic objectives of UnityPoint Health and collaborates with customers across the care continuum to ensure the appropriate information is available to drive decision making and support business needs. UnityPoint Health is building an industry leading analytics function by aligning resources with expertise in technology solutions, claims analysis, financial analysis, clinical operations, advanced data mining tools, and analytic techniques. This position has a focus on the financial analysis within the Analytics space.
Responsibilities
Projects
- Support analytical projects: formulate methodology, establish data requirements, identify client deliverables, determine tasks and timing
- Completes special projects and management reports as assigned
Analysis and Reporting
- Reports findings efficiently and in a meaningful and understandable manner. Maintains a working knowledge of the data sources.
- Analyzes and make the results accessible and relevant to a wide variety of business users
- Develops and refines analysis templates for problem diagnosis and opportunities assessment
- Synthesizes complex data into user friendly visual presentations for use by Operations Management
Communications
- Collaborate effectively with other analytical team members
- Establish effective mechanisms of communication with staff, providers, and the organization’s management team
Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Healthcare Administration
Experience:
- 1-3 years of experience in analytics
- Must have solid experience in report development
Preferred Experience:
- Healthcare experience and a deep understanding of the healthcare industry, gathering report requirements, and designing and implementing solutions
- Experience in claims or population health analytics
- SQL reporting experience a plus
- Experience in creating and working with operational and financial measures. Experience with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), score cards and dashboards
Skills
- Excellent writing and verbal communications skills and the ability to understand and communicate concepts and recommendations.
- Requires highly developed communications skills to effectively collaborate with broad customer base.