Senior Accountant - Minnetonka, MN

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:

• Maintain general ledger accounts and related activities for the production of financial
  statements and reports. 
• Reconcile, analyze and review general ledger accounts in preparation for month
  end close.
• 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.
• Analyze and prepare financial statements, including balance sheets and income/profitability
  statements.
• Assist with or lead the month end quarterly end close process for assigned
  businesses or groups
• Performs work in a self-directed manner and works with less structured, more
  complex issues. 
• Serve as a resource to others. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

• 3+ years of professional accounting experience.

• Solid understanding of generally accepted accounting
  principles and financial statements is required

• Must have current proficiency utilizing Microsoft Excel
  (solid understanding)

Preferred Qualifications:

• PeopleSoft
  experience is preferred
• Previous
  public accounting experience and a CPA designation preferred. 

Capabilities:

• 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.
• Effectively
  convey information verbally and in writing
• Ability
  to effectively prioritize and juggle multiple concurrent projects
• Exemplary
  planning and organizational skills, along with a high degree of detail
  orientation
• Builds
  trusting relationships with customers and colleagues

Careers with UnitedHealthcare. Let's talk about opportunity. Start with a Fortune 17 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, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.