Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Operations Forecasting Associate to join our Operations Intelligence team.

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform & a focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselvesone that behaves like a doctor in the family.

About the role

You will execute various forecasting & planning analyses to help optimize resourcing & financial planning for production teams within Oscar.

You will report to the Director of Operational Strategic Planning.

Work Location:

Oscar is a blended work culture where everyone, regardless of work type or location, feels connected to their teammates, our culture & our mission. 

This is a hybrid role in our New York City office. You will work part of the time in the office & part of the time remote / work-from-home. #LI-Hybrid

Pay Transparency:

The base pay for this role is: $98,400 - $129,150 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscars unlimited vacation program & annual performance bonuses.

Responsibilities

• Build & maintain detailed operational forecasts - for volumetric demand & resourcing needs - & subsequently support leadership in generating budget estimates based on the forecast
• Work with stakeholder teams to ensure forecast models align with business objectives & changes
• Work with data teams to source required data & refine as needed for analyses
• Learn the business & support periodic planning discussions with business stakeholders
• Learn & use tools & data platforms relevant to the role (such as Workday, Jira, BigQuery, Looker, etc.)
• Use business acumen & analytical experience to work through ambiguity
• Manage multiple concurrent tasks effectively & deliver professional & high quality work in a timely manner
• Collaborate with team members & be a trusted advisor to leaders & stakeholders
• Responsible for owning insights generation & follow-up for a major business unit, serving as the first point of contract for Sr. Managers, Associate Directors & Directors
• Analyze data to support business teams in making better informed, data-driven decisions
• Use data to tell a story that non-technical colleagues will be able to understand, including packaging & presenting findings in a clear, concise & compelling manner
• Collaborate across the organization, including owning stakeholder relationships with managers & senior managers , to identify actions to achieve improvements & monitor initiative impact
• Support other strategic projects as assigned to meet business needs
• Compliance with all applicable laws & regulations 
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• 2+ years of demonstrated work in operations forecasting and/or operations modeling 
• 2+ years of demonstrated work with large datasets & distill analyses into relevant insights with a structured & systematic thought process
• 2+ years experience in SQL, with the ability to filter, aggregate, & build CTEs, or proficiency in R or Python, including experience with Pandas, for loops, & statistical tests
• Strong communication skills, verbal & written, around business reporting impact & requirements, as demonstrated by 5+ examples / projects of presenting analysis to Leadership (Director+)
• 1+ years experience, including proficiency in Google Sheets or Excel skills,  with ability to use VLookup, nested if statements & connected Sheets)

Bonus points

• 1+ years experience in healthcare, investment banking or insurance industry
• 2+ years experience developing dashboards & working with Looker, or other business intelligence/data visualization tools
• 3+ years of technical work experience using analytical tools & writing analytical reports