[Hiring] Senior Project Analyst @Datavant

Role Description

The Senior Project Analyst is responsible for building and tracking project pacing by vendor and leading multi-platform forecasting across our project portfolio. This role partners closely with Finance working on the Risk Adjustment Coding Operations team, to build capacity planning models, determine headcount requirements, and plan for downtime, giving leadership clear, data-driven visibility into project health and resourcing needs.

What You Will Do

• 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 escalate concerns proactively.
• Contribute to process improvement initiatives related to project tracking and forecasting.
• Business related travel as needed (up to 10%).

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.

Benefits

• Estimated total cash compensation range for this role: $103,000 — $121,000 USD.