Lead, Rebate Data & Reporting

What you’ll do In a few words…Abarca is igniting a revolution in healthcare. We built our company on the belief that with smarter technology we are redefining pharmacy benefits, but this is just the beginning…Safeguarding the financial health of our clients and Abarca is of the upmost importance! Our Finance team ensures that our financial systems are managed and running smoothly. Our rebates teams lead the way in all aspects of the manufacturer’s rebates contract interpretation, formulary compliance, system capabilities, billing, reconciliation, and allocation of payments for Medicare, Commercial, and Medicaid clients. In this role, you will focus on maintaining in-depth knowledge of our rebate processes, system improvements and compliance with contractual terms and regulations.As Rebates Data & Reporting Analyst Lead you will analyze rebates invoices for manufacturing companies, contractual terms for billing, generate reconciliations and help designing tools to ensure the accuracy and completeness of data related to rebates billing cycle. The process will include reporting for external or internal users. You will also be supporting and collaborating in the new data management in a new repository. This role will also be providing full support of data element maintenance in the new reporting and analytics repository and help define new policies and procedures related to the collection and data accuracy, transformation of data to keep track of all rebates data flow in Abarca.The fundamentals for the job…Continually collaborates with business and technology stakeholders to identify needs and opportunities for improved data and analytics solutions and delivery, business processes and tasks that can be automated, and to understand the underlying data resources and their relationship to deliver actionable data driven insights and decision support.Generate, review, analyze, and send out rebates reporting to external stakeholders, internal clients, manufacturer companies related to pharmacy and medical rebates for Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid line of business.Provide analytical support for rebates process management for all lines of business (3rd party aggregator, In-House, MDRP and ASES).Ability to do research, investigate discrepancies, and propose as well as develop solutions.Perform complex root-cause analysis of issues identified in rebates reports. Gather necessary data to pinpoint problem areas on which to focus, validating that the analysis is data driven, recommending, and implementing solutions and evaluating those results, and implementing controls to monitor consistent use of the solution.Perform assessment and communicate critical information gathered by the reporting tools.Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets.Assist in preparation of monthly management reports, accompanying schedules, worksheets and narratives, and quarterly and annual regulatory filings.Leads the development, construction, testing and maintenance of data architecture, extract, load, transform (ELT) processes, logical and physical data models, data marts, meta data repositories and database designs in alignment with business requirement.Fully support data modeling for new rebate data design in Snowflake.Identify manual processes that can be automated and take a lead role in developing processes to eliminate manual dependencies and incorporate necessary QA steps to minimize and identify errors.Participates in initiatives or projects that support process improvements, leveraging new system capabilities or the integration of data/other applications into existing systems.Support rebate information or modeling requests from clients; ad-hoc financial reports for clients and partners, as needed.Provide reporting as well as perform querying, testing, development, and validation of data.Provide full support to business and technical users regarding rebates process and develop complex QA processes to ensure data compliance with established procedures.Collaborates with rebates team and technical resources to identify and address data quality issues when they arise. Provide necessary supporting documentation of findings.Serve as liaison with technical area involved in the rebates processes to understand back-end process and how to apply it to data model and/or reporting.Support data integrity process, including data extraction, storage, manipulation, processing, and analysis; verify the completeness, timeliness, and accuracy of data; work with a variety of data files to ensure all rebate data is accurately loaded to the systems with proper support documentation.Track and document all requests, issues, deliverables to provide reporting and updates on a weekly basis to your manager and team.Interacts with internal and external members to accomplish goals. Communicate complex findings and conclusions in an easy-to-understand way, as well as ability to manage tight deadlines and competing priorities to ensure timely deliveries.Perform other duties and special projects as assigned. For example: support data modeling for new rebate data design in Snowflake and identifying trends and anomalies in loaded rebates data.May be responsible for training new team members as needed.What we expect of youThe bold requirements… Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. If you don’t have a degree, but you have the experience, we’ll consider you anyway.6 years of relevant work experience in PBM or pharmaceutical rebate management.3 years of professional experience with SQL and reporting tools (i.e., Snowflake, Microsoft BI, Tableau, QlikView).Experience in designing, reporting, and delivering analytical solutions.Experience managing complex reconciliation processes within financial and rebates areas.Experience leveraging tools for reporting and analytics (e.g. Excel, SSRS, PowerBI).Excellent oral and written communication skills.Must be located in Puerto RicoWe are proud to offer a flexible hybrid work model which will require certain on-site work days (Puerto Rico Location Only)Nice to haves…2 years of experience in a role within a financial field.Experience in healthcare industry, claims processing, Commercial, Medicare and Medicaid line of business and Pharmacy rebates, claims processing and data interchange.Physical requirements…Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities.Sedentary work that primarily involves sitting/standing.At Abarca we value and celebrate diversity. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are guiding principles of Abarca and ensure Abarca’s workforce reflects the communities it serves. We are proud to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, medical condition, genetic information, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.Abarca Health LLC is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. “Applicant must be a United States’ citizen. Abarca Health LLC does not sponsor employment visas at this time”The above description is not intended to limit the scope of the job or to exclude other duties not mentioned. It is not a final set of specifications for the position. It’s simply meant to give readers an idea of what the role entails.