Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is hiring an Associate Director to support Revenue Manager, an internal financial application that processes healthcare data for month-end accounting and journal entries. The role bridges healthcare source systems, financial operations, and analytics by supporting integrations, investigating data issues, and translating business needs into scalable solutions.
Responsibilities
- Develop an end-to-end understanding of Revenue Manager, including source-data intake, transformation, financial processing, validation, reconciliation, controls, and journal entry output
- Analyze data from clinical Practice Management Systems and support onboarding and integration activities, including source-data research, mapping, testing, validation, and production readiness
- Investigate trends, anomalies, data gaps, and root causes that may affect accounting operations, revenue recognition, reconciliations, or financial reporting
- Write and review complex SQL queries and stored procedures to analyze data, troubleshooting issues, validating results, and support reporting and production processes
- Translate accounting, finance, and operational needs into functional requirements, technical specifications, data mappings, process flows, testing plans, and analytical outputs
- Use Snowflake, SQL Server, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, or similar tools to deliver actionable insights and support scalable data and reporting solutions
- Partner with business analysts, data engineers, software engineers, and technology teams to design, test, implement, and maintain reliable solutions
- Improve data quality, standardization, automation, system performance, monitoring, and the accounting control environment
- Develop repeatable validation, reconciliation, testing, documentation, and production-support practices aligned with accounting, audit, security, and data-governance requirements
- Evaluate automation and emerging technologies where they can improve efficiency, data quality, or supportability
- Partner across Accounting, Finance, Revenue Cycle, Operations, Analytics, Engineering, and Technology to resolve complex data and financial-system issues
- Manage multiple priorities independently, communicate risks and findings clearly, and serve as a subject matter expert for assigned initiatives
- Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing without direct people-management responsibility
Skills
- 7+ years of experience in financial systems, data analytics, business systems analysis, data engineering, software development, or a related area
- 5+ years of experience writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures involving multiple tables, joins, subqueries, data transformations, or production processes
- Experience with SQL Server, Snowflake, or a comparable relational or cloud-based data platform
- Experience analyzing complex healthcare, financial, accounting, or operational data and identifying root causes
- Experience translating business requirements into functional or technical deliverables, including data mappings, process flows, testing plans, or system documentation
- Experience working with data warehouse concepts including dimensional modeling, fact and dimension tables, star schemas, data lineage, and source-to-target mappings
- Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation including source-to-target mappings, business rules, reconciliation logic, data dictionaries, and operational procedures
- Experience supporting data or analytics solutions through analysis, testing, implementation, deployment, maintenance, or production support
- Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives, influence stakeholders, facilitate decision making, and provide technical leadership in a matrixed environment without direct supervisory responsibility
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively across business and technical teams
- Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, written communication, verbal communication, and stakeholder-management skills
- Experience with clinical Practice Management Systems such as Epic, eClinicalWorks, Athenahealth, NextGen, Allscripts, or similar platforms
- Experience analyzing healthcare datasets such as claims, membership, roster, payer, encounter, patient accounting, payment, insurance, or clinical revenue data
- Experience using AI-assisted development, analytics, automation, or documentation tools to improve productivity, testing, operational support, or analysis workflows
- Experience with accounting processes, month-end close, journal entries, financial data validation, reconciliations, automated controls, or financial reporting
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Excel, Azure, Python, SAS, SmartView, .NET applications, or similar technologies
- Experience improving data governance, process standardization, automation, controls, or high-volume financial data applications
- Experience with Agile delivery methods or healthcare technology compliance and security frameworks
- Advanced SQL and Snowflake experience, including query performance optimization and analysis across multiple data sources
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements
- Incentive and recognition programs, subject to eligibility requirements
- Equity stock purchase, subject to eligibility requirements
- 401k contribution, subject to eligibility requirements
- Remote work from anywhere within the U.S.; hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area are required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week
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