Senior Financial Analyst - Hartford, CT - Full-time / Part-time

Our finance professionals at UnitedHealth Group are engaged in the important work of making health care more affordable, simpler and easier for people to access. Now, more than ever we need finance and accounting professionals like you with the financial skills and discipline to help us achieve this goal. As a Senior Financial Analyst you'll impact millions of lives. You will collaborate with an elite team of accounting and finance professionals who are writing the history of our organization and guiding our success as a global industry leader. Your performance and innovation will find a reception here like nowhere else. You'll find that this is place where you can do your life's best work.(sm)

The Senior Financial Analyst will support Benefit Operations reporting and consolidations.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Oversee the SG&A budgeting, forecasting and analysis process for UnitedHealth Care business units


• Create financial models and perform analysis for business leaders and finance management


• Conduct monthly variance analysis and reporting for assigned business units


• Provide consultation to business owners on financial matters and FTE management


• Align hierarchies and related budgets as required to maintain accurate reporting


• Support business owners in the development of cost benefit analyses


• Identify and implement process improvements
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent


• 2+ years of financial and/or accounting experience


• Intermediate skills in MS Excel and other MS Office products

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience with Hyperion Essbase, Planning and PeopleSoft Financials

Careers with UnitedHealthcare. Let's talk about opportunity. Start with a Fortune 14 organization that's serving more than 85 million people already and building the industry's singular reputation for bold ideas and impeccable execution. Now, add your energy, your passion for excellence, your near-obsession with driving change for the better. Get the picture? UnitedHealthcare is serving employers and individuals, states and communities, military families and veterans where ever they're found across the globe. We bring them the resources of an industry leader and a commitment to improve their lives that's second to none. This is no small opportunity. It's where you can do your life's best work.SM

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.

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