Data Analyst - St. Louis, United States - The Cigna Group

Description

The job profile for this position is Financial Analysis Lead Analyst, which is a Band 3 Senior Contributor Career Track Role.

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POSITION SUMMARY
Responsible for managing all aspects of pharmacy contractual guarantees. Analyst will conduct routine analysis on guarantee performance and make pharmacy pricing recommendations to management in order to meet the guarantees.

Responsible for coordinating, conducting, and documenting financial analysis projects or financial reporting. Conducts or participates in financial analysis projects and/or reporting. Presents results and recommendations to management. Manage rate updates, including loading and maintain rates in adjudication system. Responsible for working cross functionally with Supply Chain leadership, Analytics and Network teams to implement pricing strategies. Perform analysis of claims data for key corporate strategic projects.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Managing pharmacy pricing in order to meet contractual guarantees
• Reviewing pharmacy contracts and ensuring that all guarantees are accounted for
• Monitoring, adjusting pricing and reporting of pharmacy guarantee performance
• Enter and maintain provider rates in adjudication system
• Implementation of pricing strategies to meet all Provider guarantees
• Development and implementation of modeling tools and analysis in support of provider contracting strategies including performance measurement and analysis
• Cross Functional support of internal business partners through ad hoc projects
• Analysis of claims data related to assessment of strategic corporate initiatives and projects

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree strongly desired (preferably in mathematics, business, accounting or finance)
• At least 1-3 years of business analysis, modeling, pricing or data management experience preferred
• Experience with data warehouse and/or coding experience preferred
• Experience with all MS Office applications, Visual Basic, and SQL
• Analytical, highly organized, able to work with little supervision, motivated to successfully meet deadlines, attention to detail and ability to multi-task
• Excellent Communication skills, oral and written
• Capability to prepare and present concepts and proposals to all levels of management
• Knowledge of PBM or Healthcare industry preferred

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