Data Analyst – Research & Monitoring – Johannesburg – up to R1.1mil per annum

SUMMARY:
Data Analyst – Research & Monitoring – Johannesburg – up to R1.1mil per annum

POSITION INFO:

An organisation savvy about monitoring the solvency and financial soundness of medical schemes requires a Senior Data Analyst to join their team and conduct research and monitor trends to improve policies and practices through the analysis of the financial and non-financial indicators to inform policy initiatives and recommend interventions.

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring trends evaluation of data, conducting research.
• Compiling updated rates, and updating industry reports.
• Provide support in data collection, analysis, creation of data specification, presentation of information and report writing activities.
• Provide inputs during the design project phase.
• Co-ordinating the data collection process.
• Piloting the survey tool as the participant liaison and monitoring responses.
• Provide inputs and quality assurance to the analysis of utilisation and statistics.
• Review and monitor trends in utilisation statistics.
• Provide agreed input to the other CMS functions for improved risk-based regulation.
• Monitoring trends to improve regulatory policy and practices.
• Review data specifications, technical guidelines and validations and workshop/pilot with the industry.
• Coordinate the collection of data and liaise with schemes.
• Review data submission through data cleaning and intersystem validation.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Postgraduate Diploma/Honours degree in Operations Research or Statistics
• A minimum of 7 years working experience, 5 years of which must be in a research environment
• 3 years in a Healthcare environment, data management and analysis at specialist or supervisory level
• Qualitative and Quantitative research experience
• Analytical skills and proficiency in related tools (e.g. Excel, SAS, STATA or SPSS, SQL)

The Reference Number for this position is NG59185 which is a Permanent position based in Johannesburg offering a cost to company of from R900k up to R1.1mil per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Nokuthula at nokuthulag@ e-merge.co.za or call her on to discuss this and other opportunities.

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