Business Intelligence Analyst - MED

$60,320 - $60,320/Yr

State of Idaho - Boise, ID

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Boise, ID

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

About the position

The Business Intelligence Analyst position at the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare focuses on supporting data analytics needs within the Medicaid organization. The role involves analyzing large datasets, identifying trends, and designing reports to meet customer demands. The analyst will also maintain and enhance the Division's Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence reporting tools, ensuring timely and accurate responses to various information requests.

Responsibilities

• Perform statistical analysis, interpret trends, develop conclusions, and summarize results.
• Develop reports using claims and transactional data available through department data warehouses with data extraction tools such as Business Objects Web Intelligence, Cognos, and SQL.
• Generate, compile, and submit reports as required.
• Review and confirm accuracy for all federal and state data reports within the Division of Medicaid.
• Communicate results of data extractions and internal analysis as needed.
• Develop and design data analytics that support value-based contracts, population health management, quality outcomes, and reducing costs.
• Perform multivariate statistical analysis and develop models for prediction and forecasting.
• Sustain methods for data quality and maintaining accuracy of the data warehouse.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in health care related, informatics, statistics or mathematics related disciplines or 5 years of direct experience in healthcare analytics field.
• Experience using and interpreting output of a statistical analysis software package (e.g. SAS, SPSS, STATA, Excel, Minitab).
• Experience planning, developing, and implementing complex research and statistical projects and presenting the results.
• Experience that demonstrates considerable knowledge of modeling and trend analysis and simulation techniques.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience analyzing health data.
• Experience working with relational databases and integrating data into a database.
• Experience working with Tableau to create visualizations/dashboards that effectively display key data trends.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Paid holidays
• Disability insurance
• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• 401(k)
• Employee assistance program
• Vision insurance
• Loan forgiveness
• Flexible schedule
• Life insurance