Associate Finance Director - New York, NY - 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. 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)

The Associate Director of Finance is responsible for various financial functions within Optum Health Behavioral Solutions supporting UnitedHealthcare Community & State in the New York Market. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Forecast the New York behavioral health plan. This includes revenue, benefit expense, affordability initiatives and operating costs


• Review of the month end process and present the results to senior management. Explain variances to forecast/budget and assist clinical staff to analyze areas in need of improvement


• Develop claims projects and analytics to assist the clinical staff in managing the population. This may include vendor analysis, network optimization and modeling of new programs within the health plan. Present findings to audiences without a financial background


• Point person for requests for information from state partners for behavioral services. This includes gathering the analysis and summarizing the data in a manner that is easily presented by compliance personnel. This could include changes in the agreement between UHC and the state with tight turnaround times


• Represent Optum Behavioral in all things finance with sister segment, Community and State. This may include rate negotiations, requests for proposals and regulatory reporting needs


• Assist the local senior management with ad hoc requests. In a heavily matrixed company,  identify appropriate resources to resolve a request that spans across functional areas

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or equivalent


• 5+ years finance or accounting experience


• Budgeting and forecasting experience


• Financial reporting


• Financial planning and analysis


• Intermediate Excel experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA and/or CPA


• 2+ years supervisory experience


• Financial modeling


• Presentation skills and experience


• Healthcare experience


• PeopleSoft and Essbase experience


• Month end close

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, 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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