Senior Financial Analyst/Accountant - Optum Technology - Hartford, CT

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)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Prepare journal entries and reviews accounting classifications, in accordance with generally-accepted accounting principles
  
• Prepare documentation in support of external and internal audits
  
• Perform ad hoc reporting and analysis and investigate issues providing explanations and interpretation
  
• Performs work in a self-directed manner and works with less structured, more complex issues
  
• Quick learner of computer programs (advanced MS Excel and Access, others)
  
• Able to interpret and analyze large quantities of data
  
• Excellent interpersonal skills.  both written and verbal
  
• Able to work and communicate effectively with individuals in different locations
  
• Experience working in an IT environment
  
• Process and detail focused
  
• Capable of analyzing and proposing solutions to problems independently
  
• Generally work is self-directed and not prescribed
  
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
  
• Serve as a resource to others

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Finance or equivalent
  
• 3+ years of professional finance and/or accounting experience
  
• Solid understanding of generally accepted accounting principles and financial statements
  
• 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
  
• Intermediate level of proficiency with MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  
• Ability to explain complex financial information and charges in a manner which makes sense to clients outside of the finance organization

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place 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, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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