Senior Financial Analyst - Minnetonka, MN

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 in E&I Medical Cost Management 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)
 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Evaluate clinical, pharmacy and specialty benefit related medical cost initiatives. Work with business owners to evaluate the return on investment of initiatives, support business owners through capital and SG&A investment requests, and validate savings with HCE partners.


• Develop understanding of initiatives, interventions and become subject matter expert within finance team


• Develop ad hoc medical reporting and presentations for senior management


• Analyze affordability results for clinical business owners and compared to original business cases, produce submission files to incorporate into reporting package and identify trends and staging of savings throughout the year.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or equivalent degree


• 1+ year of Finance experience


• Strong analytical skills


• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Excel


• Strong attention to detail and ability to present information in format for Leadership


• Willingness to dig into the lowest level of data in order to identify root causes

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare industry experience

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, 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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