Analytics Insights Consultant V

Company: Kaiser Permanente
Location: Oakland
Posted on: May 15, 2022

Job Description:

Job Summary:
This position can be based in Oakland CA, Pasadena CA, Aurora CO, Portland OR, Atlanta GA or Rockville MD. In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for applying analytical and problem-solving techniques to healthcare data to influence business decisions; performing complex technical analyses to ensure quality and actionability; understanding the key components of financial plan and participating in identification of potential risks and opportunities, as well as developing action plans to achieve the targets in the plan. This position is also responsible for gathering and analyzing complex financial data; developing complex financial models; and organizing and coordinating adhoc analyses in order to detect trends, correlations, or any other patterns in financial data pertinent to the operations of KP..
Essential Responsibilities:

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• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
  
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and evaluating recommendations made by others.
  
• Interprets complex data analyses by applying findings to contextual settings; and developing insights, reports, and presentations telling a compelling story to stakeholders to enable and influence decision making; participating in peer reviews; and providing context related to data interpretations and/or limitations as appropriate.
  
• Leads the development of advanced analytical and/or statistical models enabling informed business decisions by determining data and analytical requirements; translating models and gaining stakeholder buy-in for implementation; creating complex models leading to actionable insights; and testing, refining, and validating models.
  
• Designs, implements, and automates business and reporting solutions by partnering with stakeholders to advise in their design, planning, and implementation while ensuring consistency and coherency; evaluating and summarizing data and results; creating summary statistics; designing data reports, visualizations, and/or interactive Business Intelligence (BI) reports; reporting to stakeholders on key findings; identifying needs for the development and implementation of additional reporting solutions; and preparing documentation as appropriate.
  
• Drives the execution of creative data analytic approaches leading to actionable outcomes across functional areas, business and/or clinical lines by defining and calculating complex metrics to be analyzed; defining, calculating, and validating algorithms; and conducting complex analyses, including descriptive, correlational, inferential, and/or predictive statistics.
  
• Prepares data for analytic efforts by integrating and consolidating data; ensuring data quality and accuracy; profiling data inaccuracies and recommending process improvements or system changes to enhance overall quality of the data; collaborating with stakeholders and source system owners to resolve data quality issues as appropriate; and cleaning and creating final data set(s) for analysis.
  
• Gathers data and information on targeted variables in an established systematic fashion by validating data sources; querying, merging, and extracting data across internal and external sources; completing routine data refresh and update; developing and/or delivering complex tools for electronic data collection; and providing user training, support, and documentation.
  
• Drives strategic data-informed decisions by consulting with clients and leadership to identify and clarify key business needs across functional areas, business and/or clinical lines; developing outcomes and process measures; translating business requirements; determining data/information needs and data collection methods; developing complex analysis plans; evaluating the impact of business decisions on clients, customers, and/or members; partnering with clients and staff to identify opportunities and methods to improve efficiencies with analysis; supporting and training end-users; and documenting processes and deliverables.
  Minimum Qualifications:
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  • Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
    
  • Bachelors degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Social/Physical/Life Science, Business, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in data analytics or a directly related field. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.
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      Preferred Qualifications:
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      • Five years experience in healthcare economics and analytics
        
      • Demonstrated ability to communicate and work collaboratively with actuarial teams and non-actuarial business partners and present to senior management
        
      • Familiarity with actuarial rate setting process
        
      • Experience working with software and applications such as SAS and/or SQL, data visualization tools (PowerBI, Tableau, etc.) including Open-Source Tools (e.g. R, Python)
        
      • Experience in all aspects of healthcare analytics including cost trend, clinical, provider network, population health. Familiarity with EMR systems such as EPIC
        
      • Experience in Financial modeling and medical economics including financial projections, variance and cost driver analysis
        
      • Consulting and project management experience.
        
      • Experience in relational database.
        
      • Experience working in a matrixed organization.
        
      • Experience working in a health plan.
        
      • Consulting and/or project management experience.
        PrimaryLocation : California,Oakland,Kaiser Center
        HoursPerWeek : 40
        Shift : Day
        Workdays : Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
        WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
        WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
        Job Schedule : Full-time
        Job Type : Standard
        Employee Status : Regular
        Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE-PO-01-NUE-Non Union Employee
        Job Level : Individual Contributor
        Job Category : Data Analytics
        Department : Po/Ho Corp - HP PROD MGMT-Actuarial SVCS - 0308
        Travel : No
        Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.

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