The Senior Healthcare Analyst will support financial evaluation related analytics and research. The role will also develop and complete analysis to support Aledade's forecast process and risk management initiatives. This role will work under the direction of actuaries and work with healthcare data including claims, premium, membership, and risk score, etc. This role will work with data from various sources including health plans, public data sources, and CMS to generate insight for business strategy development. This role will become a data expert for the financial structure and methodology of value based contracting and will work cross-functionally with business partners and contribute to fact based business decision making.

We are flexible with respect to geographic location, and the ideal candidate will be comfortable working remotely/work from home within the US or be based from our Bethesda, MD office.

Understand the problem space:

• Work with teams across Aledade to understand and clarify questions and issues for data analysis.

Design and execute analysis:

• Under the direction of actuaries, design the analysis to answer key business questions.
• Develop program code to integrate, evaluate, and analyze diverse data sources.
• Perform data analysis and statistical modeling under the direction of actuaries to generate actionable insights and solutions.

Assist in translating and communicating analysis results:

• Work across teams at Aledade to synthesize results, identify implications of analysis results and translate findings into action.  
• Work closely with the Performance Team and Finance Team to generate  and bring analytic results to leadership.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with 4-6 years of relevant experience
• Experience with SQL for data manipulation and R, Python, or Stata for statistical programming
• Experience with health care data sources such as medical or pharmacy claims, membership, and risk scores 

Preferred KSA's:

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, mathematics or computer science
• Excellent quantitative analysis abilities, grounded in econometrics, health services research, epidemiology, statistics, or related field
• Demonstrated ability to conduct nuanced analyses to produce accurate and unbiased results and tell the story of those results in data visualizations, presentations, and reports.
• Attention to detail, quality assurance, documentation, and building repeatable processes
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage competing deadlines and priorities.
• Values people with differing backgrounds and perspectives; supports effective interpersonal and intercultural engagement
• Well-versed in Equity and Inclusion language, concepts, and principles (i.e. health disparities, social drivers of health, implicit bias) and able to communicate and explain them to larger audiences
• Committed to serving teammates and patients with empathy and respect
• Ability to manage research projects through the entire life cycle, from design through implementation, documentation, and presentation of findings
• Thinks beyond their immediate team and contributes to making Aledade holistically better (active engagement in employee resource groups, DE&I initiatives, book/journal clubs, facilitating training, leading roundtables, etc.)
• Knowledge of standard methods for measuring health care utilization, spending, quality, and related outcomes