Operational Support Senior Analyst (Finance)
Position Objective:
The Operational Support Senior Analyst will be responsible for ensuring the highest level of data integrity within the Third Party Command Center (TPCC). This includes facilitating seamless integration of data from source systems to TPCC, ensuring accurate outputs, and enabling downstream enterprise reporting with actionable and trustworthy data and insights. The role focuses on fostering collaboration, exploring innovative solutions, and building trust with our technical partners and business users through leading small projects or project steps within a broader project. Tasks will involve a degree of forward planning and anticipation of needs/issues.
General Description:
As an Operational Support Lead Analyst for our Global Procurement Organization, you will play a key role in ensuring that the data entering TPCC meets high-quality standards, enabling accurate and valuable insights across the enterprise. This position is central to bridging source data systems with GP&TPMS operations, refining data outputs, and supporting the larger enterprise data ecosystem. You will work closely with business users and technical teams to drive continuous improvement, discover innovative solutions, and establish trust through thoughtful collaboration and excellent results.
Duties and responsibilities
- Define and implement data quality standards for incoming data from various sources.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including business users, to ensure seamless integration and validation processes within the Third Party Command Center.
- Foster a mindset of curiosity and innovation, exploring and leveraging emerging technologies to enhance processes and build a level of automation to new and existing reporting.
- Inspire participation from business users to ideate new solutions for reporting and gather feedback on potential enhancements of existing reporting.
- Demonstrate the ability to understand complex data flows and translate findings into actionable business processes.
- Oversee the creation of content and datasets produced by TPCC with a focus on measurable business results.
- Monitor and measure the quality of published data sets, ensuring alignment with the enterprise ecosystem requirements and to build and maintain trust in the data from our users.
- Develop and maintain documentation outlining data management processes, quality benchmarks, and reporting practices.
- Function as a data analytics technical advisor to our GP&TPMS cross functional teams.
- Represent Third Patry Analytics on Business Customer Trainings and Office Hours
- Support teammates with ad hoc reporting requests.
Qualifications/Technical Skill Requirements:
- Tableau
- Other BI Tools
- Alteryx/Data Prep tools a plus
- SQL
- Microsoft Office Tools
Personal Competencies:
- Strong quantitative analytical and problem-solving skills
- Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions
- Attention to details
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Exceptional customer service and people skills
- Ability to determine potential trends by thinking forward
- Ability to manage own time and set priorities of others
- Ability to "think on the fly" and adapt to rapidly changing reporting priorities
- Ability to establish and maintain effective and professional working relationships with managers and other employees on the team
- Strong intellectual capacity and curiosity
- Take pride and responsibility in work produced/results achieved
Experience/Knowledge:
- Bachelor's and master's degree or equivalent work experience
- 2+ years of relevant work experience
- Statistical analysis experience using SQL, Tableau, etc.
- Experience interpreting and defining business requirements for complex business problems
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure and take initiative with limited direction
- Identify gaps and opportunities in departmental process mapping of current state and the future state workflow
- Demonstrated ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously
- Familiarity with AI tools and concepts would be a plus.
If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.
About The Cigna Group
Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we're dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.
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