Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UnitedHealth Group's Optum organization delivers technology-enabled care and health services that help millions of people live healthier lives. OptumRx is seeking a Finance Manager to lead consolidated financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and analysis while partnering with senior finance leaders and executive stakeholders to support strategic decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Lead the consolidation, analysis, and reporting of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results across Optum Rx, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and timely delivery of key financial insights
- Develop and maintain executive reporting packages that clearly communicate financial performance, key business drivers, risks, opportunities, and outlooks for Optum Rx leadership
- Partner with finance teams across Optum Rx to coordinate annual planning, budgeting, monthly forecasts, and long-range strategic planning activities
- Analyze actual results versus forecast, budget, and prior year, identifying key trends, variances, and emerging business risks and opportunities
- Support preparation of materials for senior executive reviews, business performance discussions, earnings support, and strategic operating reviews
- Collaborate with business unit finance leaders to ensure alignment on assumptions, forecast methodologies, and financial performance expectations
- Develop scalable reporting and planning processes, leveraging automation and analytics to improve efficiency, consistency, and insights across the organization
- Deliver actionable recommendations to finance leadership by connecting financial results to operational, market, and industry dynamics
- Support special projects, business cases, and ad hoc analyses for executive leadership and key strategic initiatives
- Drive continuous improvement of FP&A processes, planning tools, data governance, and financial reporting capabilities
Skills
- BA / BS Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in Finance, Accounting, Economics, OR related degree
- 5+ years of financial and / or accounting OR related experience
- 5+ years of experience with supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and business performance analysis within a complex organization
- 5+ years of work experience with anticipating accounting, financial reporting, forecasting and operational issues, assessing their implications and developing and implementing an appropriate action plan
- 5+ years of experience with using Microsoft Excel in a professional setting, demonstrating advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including financial modeling (data visualization, pivot tables, XLOOKUP, index / match, and writing complex formulas)
- 3+ years of intermediate level experience with Microsoft PowerPoint in a professional setting, creating and designing presentations for executive-level audiences
- 3+ years of experience with comfortably presenting financial information to business partners and leaders
- Ability to work any of our shift schedules during our normal business hours of 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, including the flexibility to work weekends given the business need
- Direct OR indirect people management experience
- Experience with Hyperion Essbase, Smart View, Oracle EPM, SQL, DataBricks, Power BI, OR similar enterprise planning and reporting tools
- Experience with supporting enterprise FP&A, corporate finance, healthcare services, PBM, OR matrixed organizations
- Experience with preparing executive, board-level, OR earnings-support financial materials
- Knowledge of healthcare, pharmacy benefit management (PBM), OR managed care financial drivers
Benefits
- National remote work with flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S.
- Weeks of on-the-job training
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
- Career development opportunities
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