Financial Consultant / Senior Financial Analyst - Eden Prairie, MN - 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. 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. And you can join us in achieving these goals as a Financial Consultant. 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. Financial discipline and accountability count more today than ever. Which is why your performance and innovation will find a reception here like nowhere else while you do your life's best work.(sm)
 
This role will own the measurement model activities in support of a major Optum360 end-to-end Revenue Cycle Management client.  The individual will be involved in complex financial modeling, forecasting, data analytics and interaction with internal and external stakeholders.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

Create and maintain complex financial modeling and analysis using Access and Excel
Work with internal and external customers to obtain and validate data and information
Support processes development for the measurement model and related reporting and forecasting
Obtain an understanding of Revenue Cycle Management initiatives and other business drivers to assist with forecast and budget creation
Analyze and report on forecast variances as they arise
Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand and explain complex concepts in ways that lead to understanding by a variety of audiences

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related discipline
3+ years of work experience performing financial analysis and variance analysis, preparing/generating financial reports, identify and explain trends/variances, financial modeling, and performing cost-benefit analysis (CBAs)
Advanced level proficiency with Excel
Presenting findings and recommendation to management
Preferred Qualifications:

Demonstrated experience participating in annual/monthly budget and forecasting process
Access and / or SQL experience
Proficiency utilizing PowerPoint
 
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: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and 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: financial analysis, variance analysis, trend analysis, forecasting, Eden Prairie, MN, Minnesota