Consultant, Staff Augmentation - Decision Support

stratacareers; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement benefits

Health and welfare benefits

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life and accident insurance

Job summary

Strata Decision is seeking a Consultant on the Staff Augmentation team in Chicago, IL. You will partner with healthcare customers to administer and optimize Strata Decision Support solutions, handling data reconciliation, cost model configuration, and reporting with a focus on quality and adoption.

You'll collaborate with senior team members, serve as a DS and cost accounting expert, answer ad-hoc questions, and drive initiatives that improve cost accuracy and customer success, including the

Qualifications

• 3+ years of healthcare industry experience in finance, operations, analytics, or cost accounting.
• Strong time management to handle multiple customer projects concurrently.
• Excellent communication and listening skills with the ability to deliver consultative responses.
• Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills; SQL exposure preferred.

Responsibilities

• Perform solution administrator functions including data reconciliation, cost model configuration/auditing, and reporting with high quality and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with customer and senior team members to identify, communicate, and implement DS enhancement items for cost accuracy and efficiency.
• Serve as a DS and cost accounting subject matter expert to answer ad-hoc questions and share best practices.
• Contribute to internal initiatives to improve customer and team satisfaction.
• Advocate for the Strata product suite and drive adoption.

Skills

Healthcare cost accounting

Analytics

Project management

Communication skills

Excel

PowerPoint

SQL (preferred)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

SQL

Job description

How you'll make an impact:

As a Consultant on the Staff Augmentation team, you will partner with healthcare customers as an extension of their internal teams to administer and optimize their Strata Decision Support solutions. In this role, you will manage day-to-day system administration, support ongoing maintenance and enhancements, and drive adoption initiatives to ensure cost accounting solutions remain effective, scalable, and aligned to evolving operational and strategic needs. Through close collaboration with customer stakeholders, you will help organizations maximize the value of their Strata investment. In each of the responsibilities below, you will have the support and guidance from a senior team member to ensure team member development and customer success.

• Perform the solution administrator functions including data reconciliation, cost model configuration/auditing and reporting within the Decision Support solution with high quality and high customer satisfaction following the service protocols that have been established.
• Partner with the customer and sr. team members to identify, communicate and implement DS enhancement items to increase cost accuracy and/or cost model efficiency projects.
• Serve as a DS and cost accounting subject matter expert to customer answering ad-hoc questions around system results as well as industry best practices.
• Contributes to team internal initiatives improving customer and team satisfaction.
• Serve as a passionate advocate for the Strata product suite.

What we're looking for:

• 3+ years of healthcare industry experience finance, operations, or analytics or cost accounting.
• Strong time management skills with the ability to manage multiple customer projects at one time.
• Excellent communication and listening skills, with the ability to think quickly and deliver consultative responses.
• Collaborative working style to partner with customer finance teams.
• Growth mindset to continuously improve program and customer satisfaction.
• Eagerness to learn and grow within healthcare finance and decision support.
• Advanced written and verbal communication with the ability to interact effectively with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.
• Advanced skills Microsoft Excel and Power Point.
• Preferred exposure to SQL.
• Willingness to travel within the US as needed to customer locations (limited)

Estimated Salary Range: $70,000 - $90,000

Actual salary will be determined based on factors including, but not limited to, skill set and level of experience. This salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay.

Strata also provides discretionary variable pay programs based on role. In addition, Strata provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits, health and welfare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, life and accident insurance, and other voluntary and well-being benefits.

How we work:

Our preferred location for open roles is Chicago, IL. We value in‑person connection and regularly host on‑campus events to create meaningful opportunities for our team to build relationships and collaborate.

Should you require a reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please reach out to [e-mail].

Here @ Strata...

Our culture is driven by our people solving problems together. We embrace learning, collaboration, and continuous career growth. Together, we lift our customers, our products, our company, and our community.

We believe that each of our team member's unique perspectives and experiences is what drives innovation and positive change. Our individual differences are what make us a more forward-thinking organization. We foster a culture of inclusion, equity and belonging, regardless of race, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

Our Core Values:

• We connect with positive intent.
• We are helpful.
• We own it.
• We get better every day.
• We are humble.