Risk Adjustment Operations Senior Project Analyst
About The Position
The Senior Project Analyst works on the Risk Adjustment Coding Operations team and is responsible for building and tracking project pacing by vendor, as well as leading multi-platform forecasting across the project portfolio. The role partners closely with Finance to develop capacity planning models, determine headcount requirements, and plan for downtime, providing leadership with data-driven visibility into project health and resourcing needs. The analyst builds and maintains pacing trackers, forecasting models, dashboards, and reports; analyzes vendor performance, throughput, capacity, utilization, and project risks; and supports staffing and scenario planning. The role collaborates with project managers, vendor management, Finance, and Operations stakeholders, presents findings to leadership, maintains forecasting documentation and data integrity, and contributes to standardized reporting and process improvement. Business-related travel may be required, up to 10%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or at least five years of equivalent experience in project analytics, business analytics, or a related analytical role.
- Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and financial or operational modeling.
- Experience with BI or visualization tools such as Sigma, Tableau, Power BI, or Looker.
- Demonstrated experience building forecasting and/or capacity-planning models.
- Experience partnering with Finance or FP&A teams on headcount and capacity modeling.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and high attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to present findings to leadership.
- Ability to work effectively in a remote team environment.
- Flexibility in work schedule to meet departmental needs.
- Ability to analyze data to determine root causes of pacing, capacity, or forecasting variances.
- Ability to follow instructions, meet deadlines, and work independently.
- Working knowledge of the business use of computer hardware and software to ensure effectiveness, quality, and data security.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with risk adjustment methodologies.
- Healthcare industry experience.
- Formal project planning or project management experience or certification, such as PMP or CAPM.
- SQL or other data-querying experience.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain pacing trackers to monitor project progress, milestones, and timelines by vendor.
- Develop multi-platform forecasting models to project volume, timelines, and resourcing needs across concurrent projects.
- Partner with Finance to build capacity planning models, including headcount requirements and downtime or idle-time planning.
- Design and maintain dashboards and reports using Excel, Sigma, or similar BI tools to provide leadership visibility into project and vendor performance.
- Identify trends, bottlenecks, and risks in vendor performance and project pacing, and recommend corrective action.
- Support scenario planning and what-if modeling for staffing and capacity decisions.
- Collaborate with project managers, vendor management, and Finance stakeholders to align on assumptions and outputs.
- Continuously improve tracking methodologies and forecasting accuracy.
- Analyze vendor throughput and capacity against forecasted volume, and flag variances early.
- Maintain documentation of forecasting methodologies, data sources, and assumptions for auditability.
- Present pacing, forecasting, and capacity findings to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Support headcount and staffing plan reviews with Finance and Operations leadership.
- Monitor downtime and utilization trends and incorporate them into forecasting and staffing models.
- Maintain data integrity across pacing, forecasting, and capacity-planning tools and reports.
- Assist in developing standardized reporting templates across projects and vendors.
- Support ad hoc analysis requests from Finance, Operations, and executive leadership.
- Track project risk indicators and proactively escalate concerns.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives related to project tracking and forecasting.
- Travel for business as needed, up to 10%.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
