Senior Associate, Analytics

Join us as we work to create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

Position Summary :

The Business Operations team delivers insights and impact across Customer Success through defining, implementing, and monitoring key performance metrics, driving operational excellence, and enabling the execution and development of the Customer Success strategy.

A Senior Analytics Associate supports the data management, maintenance, and infrastructure for the Customer Success organization.

They are responsible for defining, measuring, and visualizing key performance indicators (KPIs) at every stage of the customer lifecycle.

This individual is comfortable analyzing and working with complex data to extract business insights that impact performance.

Essential Functions (Duties and Responsibilities) :

50% Data Management and Maintenance

• Create reliable and efficient queries transforming and extracting large data sets for dashboarding and data visualization
• Build expertise in metric definitions and calculations to ensure accurate and proper interpretation of core business metrics and drivers
• Develop knowledge of operational processes within upstream systems that source data to ensure modeled data is accurate and useful
• Partner with the broader Business Operations team to drive projects and processes that contribute to improvements in data integrity
• Identify opportunities to optimize reporting processes, data integration, and automation and partner with the broader team to execute on enhancements

50% Deliver Data Analyses and Business Insights

• Create easily consumable data visualizations that help our organization uncover insights and develop recommendations to solve key business questions and influence outcomes
• Use data visualization (Power BI, Tableau, Tableau CRM, Excel), and analytic tools (R, Python, etc.) to grasp business insights from our mountain of data
• Develop a deep understanding of our business reporting architecture to define metrics and design reporting to surface performance and create accountability
• Engage with business stakeholders across the organization to frame, structure and prioritize analyses
• Analyze key performance metrics to identify root cause of performance issues
• Produce reports and analyses for key stakeholders / processes (QBRs, Board Decks, Manager Communications, etc.)
• Regularly communicate performance trends and improvements to senior management and leadership ensuring they can talk to service-specific performance
• Support strategic initiatives by leading business problem definition, hypotheses formulation, and designing and delivering performance measurement and monitoring
• Ensure all programs have clear, quantifiable outcomes and measures that drive improved performance

Education & Experience Required :

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Business, Finance / Accounting Operations / Supply Chain / Engineering
• Intermediate SQL skills required
• 4+ years of professional experience
• 2+ years of experience in analytics, financial services, management consulting, corporate finance / strategy, analytical / business process improvement, or operations
• Working knowledge of relational database architecture (Snowflake, Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Comfort using statistical methods
• Strong analytical skills
• Familiarity with data visualization programs (Power BI, Tableau, Tableau CRM (formerly Salesforce Einstein Analytics)).

Knowledge & Skills :

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, specifically in presenting data to non-analytical audiences
• Desire to tackle unstructured / distributed data to uncover critical insights
• Strong organizational skills, impeccable attention to detail and ability to juggle multiple tasks
• Able to work autonomously and be comfortable with ambiguity
• Focused on delivering high quality and timely deliverables with a positive approach towards the work
• Demonstrate excellent analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Able to effectively work in a highly-matrixed organization, handling competing priorities and connecting the dots across teams

About athenahealth

Here’s ourvision : To create a thriving ecosystem that delivers accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all.

What’s unique about our locations?

From an historic, 19thcentury arsenal to a converted, landmark power plant,allofathenahealth’s offices were carefully chosen to represent our innovative spirit and promote the most positive and productive work environment for our teams.

Our10offices across the United States and India plus numerous remote employees all work to modernize the healthcare experience, together.

Our company culture might be our best feature.

We don't take ourselves too seriously. But our work? That’s another story.athenahealth develops andimplements products and services that support US healthcare : It’sour chance to create healthier futures for ourselves, for our family and friends, for everyone.

Our vibrant and talented employees orathenistas, as we call ourselves spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplishour goal.

We continue to expand our workforce with amazing people who bring diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives at every level, and foster an environment where every athenista feels comfortable bringing theirbestselves to work.

Our size makes a difference, too : We are small enoughthatyourindividual contributionswill stand out butlarge enoughto grow your career with ourresources and established business stability.

Giving back is integral to our culture. OurathenaGivesplatform strives tosupport food security, expand access to high-quality healthcare for all, and support STEM education to develop providers and technologists who will provide access to high-quality healthcare for all in the future.

As part of the evolution of athenahealth’sCorporate Social Responsibility(CSR)program, we’ve selected nonprofit partners that align with our purpose and let us foster long-term partnerships for charitable giving, employee volunteerism, insight sharing, collaboration, and cross-team engagement.

What can we do for you?

Along with health and financial benefits,athenistasenjoy perks specific to eachlocation, including commuter support, employee assistance programs, tuition assistance,employeeresource groups, and collaborative workspaces some offices even welcome dogs.

In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, includingbook clubs, external speakers, and hackathons.

And weprovideathenistaswithacompany culturebased onlearning,the support of anengaged team,andan inclusive environment where all employees are valued.

We alsoencourage a better work-life balance forathenistaswith our flexibility. Whilewe know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time.

With consistent communication and digital collaboration tools, athenahealth enables employees to find a balance that feels fulfilling and productive for each individual situation.

athenahealth is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity that’s why we recruit and hire applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information, gender identity, gender expression, or any other factor prohibited by law.

We’re happy to provide a reasonable accommodation, for those with a disability, to complete any part of the application process.

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