Lead Data Analyst: Performance & Financial Analytics

Optum; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum is a global health services company seeking a Principal Data Analyst to own enterprise performance and financial analytics. Hybrid work from Dublin/Letterkenny with home-based options connects operational metrics to financial outcomes.

You will design KPI hierarchies, develop analytics, and provide executive-level insights to support strategic decisions across risk, quality, affordability, and operations.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in business analytics and financial analytics.
• Proven ability to develop KPI frameworks and link operational metrics to financial outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and executive communication skills.
• Experience designing enterprise-wide performance reporting and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise KPI hierarchy across risk, quality, affordability, and operations.
• Develop and maintain performance analytics linking metrics to financial variance.
• Create financial attribution methodologies and performance measurement frameworks.
• Produce executive insights, reporting, and recommendations for decision-making.
• Collaborate with Finance and stakeholders to validate methodologies and assumptions.
• Translate findings into business implications for leadership.

Skills

Business analytics

Financial analytics

KPI development

Stakeholder engagement

Executive communication

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Tools

SQL

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Optum is a global health services company seeking a Principal Data Analyst to own enterprise performance and financial analytics. Hybrid work from Dublin/Letterkenny with home-based options connects operational metrics to financial outcomes.

You will design KPI hierarchies, develop analytics, and provide executive-level insights to support strategic decisions across risk, quality, affordability, and operations.