Director, Audit & Recovery Operations - Full-time / Part-time

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. Challenge yourself, your peers and our industry by shaping what health care looks like and doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:  

• Have direct accountability for the accounts receivable (AR) portion of the Audit and Recovery Operations (ARO) area


• Management of up to 6 direct reports (managers and individual contributors), overseeing approximately 50 staff


• Direct accountability for the management of the aging and correct posting of $400,000,000-$500,000,000 in recovery dollars


• Management of outside overpayment recovery vendors


• Business requirements for system enhancements to support recovery processes


• Associated reporting and reconciliation


• May also be accountable for some overpayment identification activities

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in a Accounts Receivable, Accounting, or other Finance-related role within a Finance, Insurance, or Medical industry


• 5+ years of experience managing vendors


• 5+ years of experience working directly with UT/IT departments on system requirements and/or configuration to support business activities


• Previous experience in the management of at least $100 million dollars annually
  Proficient in Excel (macros), Cognos/SAS, and/or Access database management or development

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in business or public health


• Experience managing client relationships


• Six Sigma process improvement experience/training

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to 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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