Senior Accountant - Minnetonka, MN

Position Description:

UnitedHealthcare Finance has
a dynamic opportunity for a Senior Accountant to join our team in Minnetonka,
MN.

Primary
Responsibilities:

• Own primary oversight of one or more state Medicaid health plan core financial
  statements, including Balance Sheet and Income Statement
• Own primary responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of health plan
  financial statements
• Maintain general ledger accounts and related activities for the production of
  health plan financial statements and reports
• Reconcile, analyze and review general ledger accounts in preparation for month
  end close cycles
• Prepare journal entries and reviews accounting classifications, in accordance
  with generally-accepted accounting principles
• Assist with or lead the month-end and quarter-end close process for assigned
  health plan(s)
• Perform both routine and ad hoc reporting and analysis for assigned health plan
  results, taking lead on the investigation, resolution, and interpretation of
  issues to management
• Own primary responsibility for the fulfillment of audit (internal and external)
  requests, as needed
• Support the organization's sound internal control structure around U.S. GAAP,
  Sarbanes-Oxley and Model Audit Rule compliance (as applicable)
• Liaise with core business partners within the organization for assigned health
  plans, including but not limited to Regulatory Reporting, Health Plan Finance,
  FP&A, Actuarial, Legal, Compliance
• Collaborate with management with the identification and documentation of
  financial risks and opportunities impacting assigned health plan(s)
• Work toward being subject matter experts on various Medicaid contract
  provisions for assigned health plan(s), including risk share arrangements and
  performance guarantees, where applicable
• Adapt to and manage through financial impacts of the Affordable Care Act
  (health care reform) to assigned health plan(s)
• Collaborate with management to adapt to and manage through contract amendments
  / renewals and the resulting accounting impacts
• Perform work in a both team-oriented and self-directed work environments and
  demonstrate ability to work with less structured, more complex issues
• Serve as a resource to others within the Controllership, including Optum Global
  Solutions (OGS) staff based in India
• Collaborate with
  team members on special projects, as needed

If
you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really
smart about the business of health care. Financial discipline and
accountability count more today than ever. Which is why your performance and
innovation will find a reception here like nowhere else as you help people live
healthier lives while doing your life's best work.(sm)

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in
  Accounting

• 4+ years of
  professional accounting experience.

• Solid understanding
  and practical application of U.S. GAAP

• Must have current
  proficiency utilizing Microsoft Excel (solid understanding)

• Experience working
  with general ledger or sub-ledger accounting applications

Preferred Qualifications:

• PeopleSoft experience is preferred

• Public accounting experience and a CPA
  designation preferred

• Regulated entity accounting experience

• Essbase experience is preferred

• Previous
  Medicaid and/or health care industry experience is desired 

Capabilities:

• Assesses and interprets customer needs and
  requirements.

• Identifies solutions to non-standard requests and
  problems.

• Solves moderately complex problems and/or
  conducts moderately complex analyses.

• Effectively convey information verbally and in
  writing

• Ability to effectively prioritize and juggle
  multiple concurrent projects

• Exemplary planning and organizational skills,
  along with a high degree of detail orientation