Remote Senior Risk Adjustment Project Analyst — Forecasting

Datavant; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 103,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel up to 10%

Job summary

Datavant is seeking a Senior Project Analyst to build pacing trackers, forecast project volume, and partner with Finance on capacity planning. You will design dashboards and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive data-driven decisions.

The role emphasizes remote collaboration, strong analytical skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects while communicating clearly with leadership. Healthcare data expertise is a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or 5+ years of equivalent experience in project analytics, business analytics, or a related analytical role.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas and pivot tables.
• Experience with BI/visualization tools such as Sigma, Tableau, Power BI, or Looker; demonstrated forecasting/capacity modeling.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain pacing trackers to monitor project progress, milestones, and timelines by vendor.
• Develop multi-platform forecasting models to project volume, timelines, and resourcing across concurrent projects.
• Partner with Finance to build capacity planning models, headcount requirements and downtime/idle-time planning.
• Design and maintain dashboards and reports (Excel, Sigma, or similar BI tools) for real-time leadership visibility.
• Identify trends, bottlenecks, and risks in vendor performance and project pacing; recommend corrective actions.
• Support scenario planning and what-if modeling for staffing and capacity decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with project managers, vendor management, and finance stakeholders.
• Continuously improve tracking methodologies and forecasting accuracy over time.
• Analyze vendor throughput and capacity against forecasted volume; flag variances early.
• Maintain documentation of forecasting methodologies, data sources, and assumptions for auditability.
• Present pacing, forecasting, and capacity findings to leadership and stakeholders.
• Support headcount and staffing plan reviews with Finance and Operations leadership.
• Monitor downtime and utilization trends; incorporate into forecasting and staffing models.
• Maintain data integrity across pacing, forecasting, and capacity planning tools.
• Assist in 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 concerns proactively.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives related to project tracking and forecasting.
• Business travel up to 10%.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Forecasting & capacity planning

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or 5+ years in analytics

Tools

Sigma

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Job description

Datavant is seeking a Senior Project Analyst to build pacing trackers, forecast project volume, and partner with Finance on capacity planning. You will design dashboards and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive data-driven decisions.

The role emphasizes remote collaboration, strong analytical skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects while communicating clearly with leadership. Healthcare data expertise is a plus.