Associate Director, Finance - Las Vegas, NV

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 Finance Director is responsible for various financial functions including business analytics, annual planning and quarterly forecasting, metrics reporting and ad-hoc analysis. This person will also create in-depth financial models and analysis of company financial and operational metrics to evaluate and influence numerous aspects of the company's business performance.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Generating annual financial plans and quarterly forecasts for Medicare, Commercial, and Medicaid programs


• Lead the month-end close and variance analysis and report to Sr. management the financial performance and prospective consequences


• Membership analysis and impact on revenue payments and medical trend


• Monthly analysis of medical expense results, premium yields, identifying trends, variances and potential performance opportunities and/or concerns at the market level


• Providing finance support around existing contract reviews and new business opportunities


• Partner with Field-based leaders to understand and control operating expenses


• Workforce productivity reviews and developing annual / quarterly FTE plans/forecasts


• Lead development of business/financial case for specific initiatives or capital investments


• Proactively seek opportunities to improve processes and identify areas of improvement


• Participate in a wide variety of special projects and evaluate new business opportunities

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business Finance or Accounting


• 5+ years progressive financial planning and analysis experience


• 5+ years of supervisory experience


• Strong analytic background, attention to details


• Executive presence with strong communication and influencing skills with internal and external stakeholders (ability to translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences)


• Leadership experience with the ability to develop others and create a positive team-based work environment


• Expert level of proficiency with MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)


• Enterprise financial systems such as PeopleSoft/Oracle and Essbase reporting

Preferred Qualifications:

• CPA license or MBA degree

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care 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.

Job Keywords: finance, accounting, financial analysis, analytics, CPA, Las Vegas, NV, Nevada