Senior Data Analyst
Greenock
Band 1
The Position:
To work alongside business partners to provide management information to
the business to support client and business needs. This is a role that is
built on strong technical and commercial acumen to create business solutions
through well written reports from available data
Scope:
The management of information necessary to achieve profitability
through the producing and analysing monthly data reports, developing n
ew ways of using information and contributing to the broader understanding
of information throughout the company. This will be done primarily through
assisting underwriters and actuarial but will include working with the UK
management team, business line managers, account managers, health management
services and other business areas. Also reporting and presenting findings/recommendations
to the UK management team
Main duties/Responsibilities:
- Maintain a series of reports that must be produced regularly
- Be responsible for client management information reporting
- Be responsible for investigating and prioritising system change requests
- Review all standard reports for reasonability of information as well as accuracy.
- Focus on providing and analysing data for the use of internal and external customers.
- Build strong relationships with other departments, including systems, operations, sales and marketing.
- Develop an understanding of the drivers of profitability for the business
- Develop an understanding of when underwriting and actuarial information is critical to ensuring profitability.
- Have the ability to guide people from other areas through reports and increase their understanding of the information the reports contains.
Experience Required:
- Work experience in a statistical or analytical environment with a background in reporting.
- Computer programming or clinical knowledge would be an advantage
- Be proficient in business objects/crystal/enterprise, AS400 query and EXCEL among other PC applications
- Knowledge of health care, Structured Query Language, or Eurocare data
Education/professional qualifications required:
- Degree in a mathematical or economics discipline with a statistical bias.
- Possibly an MBA with a mathematical bias.
Skills:
- Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
- Ability to understand overall perspective while attentive to detail
- Ability to work on own initiative without close supervision
- Good logical and problem-solving skills
- Curiosity and imagination
- Ability to lead and develop a team
- Strong task management skills
- Good presentation skills
- Commercial outlook
If you would like to discuss this role further please contact Adrian Marden, Underwriting Director or Grainne Bain in HR.
If you would like to apply for this position, please email an application in the form of a current CV and covering memo outlining your suitability for this role grainne.bain@cigna.com - please ensure you gain your manager’s approval before applying.
The closing date for this role is May 21st 2008.