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Financial Analyst - Reston, VA
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
|---|---|
| Location | Reston, VA Reston, Virginia |
About this job
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 they ever did. That 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:
- Understand the UnitedHealth Group financial process and become an active participant in the management of its financials
- Analyze and report on financials and partner with senior leaders to collaboratively manage budgets
- Assist with periodic forecast and budget creation for business leadership
- Forecast staffing needs and partner with project managers, subject matter experts and leadership to develop workforce tools -experience with Activity-Based costing
- Collaborate with segment finance to understand and demonstrate complex concepts in ways that lead to understanding by a variety of audiences
- Conduct cost-benefit analysis, calculate cost impact, summarize and present to a larger audience
- Understand Government Accounting concepts and practices and translate to Optum financial reporting within a matrix P&L environment with multiple finance and operational relationships
- Analyze variances to forecast and Budget
- Understand, monitor and analyze the Capital projects including charges from other organizations and Cap Contra and facilitate a methodology for charging the Capitalized SW to government contracts
- Coordinate intra-segment charges from multiple sources to retain necessary contract records and detail, and monitor proposed profitability within Costpoint
- Take a leadership role in the development and distribution of project and management financial reports
- Coordinate and track Government allocations across multiple pillars and organizations and the associated methodologies
Positions in this function
- Generate forecasts and analyze trends in sales, SG&A, product line profitability, and other areas of business
- Present findings and recommendations to management
- May include responsibility for budget planning and analysis
- Develops innovative approaches
- Sought out as expert
- Serves as a leader/ mentor
Requirements
Required Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience (Accounting or Finance degree preferred)
- 5+ years of financial and operational management experience
- 3+ years of experience working in a federal cost accounting environment
- Exceptional financial acumen and P&L management skills
- Proven experience driving business performance in a high growth environment
- Prior work experience anticipating accounting, financial reporting, forecasting, and operational issues, assessing their implications, and developing and implementing an appropriate action plan
- Strong ability to work collaboratively and influence across a matrix environment to drive revenue enhancement and expense management initiatives
- Strong executive presence, communication and influencing skills with internal and external stakeholders
Preferred:
- Strongly preferred to have Costpoint expertise
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.
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