Senior Project Analyst - Risk Adjustment & Forecasting

Datavant; Salem (OR); Remote; USD 103,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Datavant is seeking a Senior Project Analyst to build pacing trackers and multi-platform forecasts, partnering with Finance to plan capacity and headcount. You will design dashboards and monitor vendor performance to provide leadership with real-time visibility into project health.

You will collaborate with project managers and finance, analyze variances, and support staffing scenario planning while maintaining data integrity for auditability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or a minimum of five years of equivalent experience in project analytics, business analytics, or a related analytical role.
• Advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas, pivot tables, and financial/operational modeling.
• Experience with BI/visualization tools such as Sigma, Tableau, Power BI, or Looker.
• Demonstrated experience building forecasting and/or capacity planning models.
• Experience partnering with Finance or FP&A teams on headcount and capacity modeling.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present findings to leadership.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote, team environment.
• Flexibility in work schedule to meet departmental needs.
• Ability to analyze data to determine root causes of pacing, capacity, or forecasting variances.
• Must be able to follow instructions, meet deadlines, and work independently.
• Working knowledge of the business use of computer hardware and software to ensure effectiveness, quality, and security of data.
• Experience with risk adjustment methodologies preferred.
• Healthcare industry experience preferred.
• Formal project planning or project management experience/certification (PMP, CAPM, or similar) preferred.
• SQL or other data querying experience preferred.

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 needs across concurrent projects.
• Partner closely with Finance to build capacity planning models, including headcount requirements and downtime/idle-time planning.
• Design and maintain 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 track concerns proactively.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives related to project tracking and forecasting.
• Business related travel as needed (up to 10%).

Skills

Bachelor’s Degree

Advanced Excel

BI tools

Forecasting models

Headcount planning

Finance partner

Strong communication

Remote work

Project management

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years equivalent experience

PMP/CAPM or similar

Tools

Sigma

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Job description

Datavant is seeking a Senior Project Analyst to build pacing trackers and multi-platform forecasts, partnering with Finance to plan capacity and headcount. You will design dashboards and monitor vendor performance to provide leadership with real-time visibility into project health.

You will collaborate with project managers and finance, analyze variances, and support staffing scenario planning while maintaining data integrity for auditability.