Remote Senior Risk Adjustment Forecasting Analyst

datavant2; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant is seeking a Senior Project Analyst to drive pacing, forecasting, and capacity planning across vendor-led projects. You’ll partner with Finance and Operations to deliver data-driven insights and proactive resourcing recommendations.

In this remote role, you’ll build trackers, dashboards, and models, collaborate across teams, and help leadership understand project health and risk. Strong Excel, BI tool experience, and clear communication are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or five years of equivalent experience in project analytics or a related analytical role.
• Advanced Excel skills with complex formulas and modeling.
• Experience with BI tools such as Sigma, Tableau, Power BI, or Looker.
• Proven ability to build forecasting and capacity planning models.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain pacing trackers to monitor project progress by vendor.
• Develop multi-platform forecasting models to project volume, timelines, and resourcing needs across concurrent projects.
• Collaborate with Finance to build capacity planning models, including headcount requirements and downtime/idle-time planning.
• Design dashboards and reports (Excel, Sigma, or similar BI tools) that give leadership real-time visibility into project and vendor performance.
• Identify trends, bottlenecks, and risks in vendor performance and project pacing, and recommend corrective action.
• Support scenario planning and what-if modeling for staffing and capacity decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with project managers, vendor management, and finance stakeholders to align on assumptions and outputs.
• Continuously improve tracking methodologies and forecasting accuracy over time.
• Analyze vendor throughput and capacity against forecasted volume, flagging variances early.
• Maintain documentation of forecasting methodologies, data sources, and assumptions for auditability.
• Present pacing, forecasting, and capacity findings to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support headcount and staffing plan reviews in partnership with Finance and Operations leadership.
• Monitor downtime and utilization trends, incorporating them into forecasting and staffing models.
• Maintain data integrity across pacing, forecasting, and capacity planning tools and reports.
• Assist in the development of standardized reporting templates across projects and vendors.
• Support ad hoc analysis requests from Finance, Operations, and executive leadership.
• Track project risk indicators and elevate concerns proactively.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives related to project tracking and forecasting.
• Business related travel as needed (up to 10%).

Skills

Advanced Excel

Forecasting

Project analytics

Communication skills

Remote collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Sigma

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

SQL

Job description

Datavant is seeking a Senior Project Analyst to drive pacing, forecasting, and capacity planning across vendor-led projects. You’ll partner with Finance and Operations to deliver data-driven insights and proactive resourcing recommendations.

In this remote role, you’ll build trackers, dashboards, and models, collaborate across teams, and help leadership understand project health and risk. Strong Excel, BI tool experience, and clear communication are essential.