HealthFirst
is hiring
Data Analyst, Operations
About Our Company
Healthfirst is a provider-sponsored health insurance company that serves 1.8 million members in downstate New York. Healthfirst offers top-quality Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, Child Health Plus, and Managed Long Term Care plans. Healthfirst Leaf Qualified Health Plans and the Healthfirst Essential Plan are offered on NY State of Health, The Official Health Plan Marketplace. Healthfirst offers Healthfirst Pro and Pro Plus, Exclusive Provider Organization (EPO) plans for small-business owners and their employees, and Healthfirst Total, an EPO for individuals.
Job Description & Responsibilities
The Operations Strategic Data Analyst embraces complex, disparate data sets and leading technologies to design data models, craft scoring methodologies and develop algorithms that inform the leaders of our business on our performance. This individual will be working directly on Healthfirst strategic initiatives to identify solutions that have visibility at the highest levels of the company.
100% Remote
Duties & Responsibilities
- Operate with intellectual curiosity and critically assess existing processes and procedures to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Develop analyses requiring the integration of multiple data sources, evaluation of data quality, and standardization of data to consistent format/structure.
- Create queries and reports that extract data to support business teams’ needs, including working with nesting tables and temp tables and writing multiple conditions against varying data sets)
- Learn, adopt and leverage leading analytical tools and technologies to further the maturity of departmental analytics at-large.
- Hold oneself accountable for the accuracy, completeness, quality, and relevance of deliverables in order to own responsibility for work product and consider these factors in the end-to-end analytical process, from data gathering to analysis to formatting and presentation.
- Employ best practices in documentation, coding style and comments to facilitate persistence, reusability, and scalability of your solutions.
- Document and escalate data issues as appropriate.
- Exhibit collaborative attitude, willingness to work with others on data projects that included working team(s) made of cross departmental/interdisciplinary users.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications
- HS Diploma or GED from an accredited institution Working experience exhibiting strong critical thinking and analytical skills
- Advanced MS Excel skills that include creating pivot tables, macros, utilizing v/h lookups
- Familiarity with writing SQL queries for analyzing data and establishing business rules and requirements.
- Familiarity with relational database structures, theories, principles, and practices
- Understanding of the data lifecycle within the organization and its impact on the business
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Sciences, Engineering, Business Analytics, Informatics, or similar concentration
- Experience with Alteryx, Tableau, Amazon Redshift, QlikView, or other similar tools/platforms
- Familiarity with statistical principles, such as standard deviations, normal distributions, and regressions
- Familiarity with healthcare data
- Balances working independently with an understanding of when to escalate with questions/issues
- Ability to work effectively with both business and technical stakeholders
What we offer
Hiring Range*:
- Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $65,600 - $94,775
- All Other Locations (within approved locations): $58,300 - $86,700
As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, licenses and certifications, and any other factors Healthfirst deems pertinent to the hiring decision.
In addition to your salary, Healthfirst offers employees a full range of benefits such as, medical, dental and vision coverage, incentive and recognition programs, life insurance, and 401k contributions (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Healthfirst believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package wherever its employees work and live.
