Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company dedicated to improving health outcomes globally. The Finance Manager, Cost Management role is responsible for governing the Cost Management Program and supporting the FP&A team, focusing on financial analysis and modeling of real estate transactions.
Responsibilities
- Establish and govern the Cost Management Program for UHG Corporate Services. Single source of truth for intake, review, financial modeling, approval, reporting of all cost management activities; ensuring appropriate scope, definition and data integrity throughout
- Partner with stakeholders to solve any gap in performance targets
- Lead small-to-medium, cross-functional projects that will establish financial programs to consolidate and promote cost reduction activities
- Support the following teams by gathering inputs and assessing financial benefits: Real Estate Strategy and Transaction Management, Finance, Procurement, Legal
- Thought partner to the teams above by establishing methods for substantiating and promoting value with an appropriate balance of effort
- Governance for third party cost management; reviews work and provides recommendations for improvement
- Develop and maintain complex financial models to assess real estate transactions
- Monitor ongoing performance of real estate assets against initial projections, updating models as necessary
- Prepare investment memoranda and presentation materials summarizing model outputs and recommendations for internal and external stakeholders
- Key resource for Corporate Services M&A to support Real Estate integration efforts of acquired entity
- Traditional FP&A objectives in support of UHG Real Estate portfolio
Skills
- Bachelors degree in Finance or Accounting, or equivalent field
- 4+ years of finance and/or accounting experience
- 1+ years of leading cross-functional projects to implement finance programs
- Intermediate or higher experience in Excel
- Traditional corporate finance experience involving large-scale forecasts, month-end review, P&L analysis & commentary, communicating results to customers and/or leadership, etc
- Experience presenting insights and recommendations to senior leadership, with the confidence to constructively challenge assumptions and influence decision-making when appropriate
- Experience serving as a process owner and key finance resource within a highly matrixed organization; maintaining relationships with key business partners
- Experience leading cross-functional projects to implement finance programs
- Proven effective communication skills to present complex financial information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven analytical thinking with attention to detail and accuracy in model construction
- Experience managing a suite of reporting & analysis in which there was accountability for quality and consistency of narrative across, potentially, disparate products
- Experience supporting a real estate and/or procurement organization
- Experience in CoStar, Essbase, PeopleSoft
- Traditional project management experience
- Experience supporting cost reduction activities on behalf of an organization
- Experience connecting the needs of internal, business customers to the delivery by operational owners
- Experience collaborating with operational owners to identify and communicate financial modeling; with preference given to collaboration in which there was influence without authority
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
- Flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S.
- For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
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