Financial Consultant

1 week ago


Minnetonka, United States UnitedHealth Group Full time

At UnitedHealthcare, we‘re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.


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 Financial Consultant, you will 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.


We are seeking a self-motivated and detail-oriented Financial Consultant to join the Medicaid Revenue Reporting Team to assist with effectively managing and reporting for one or more of our Medicaid health plans for our company. This position is fast paced and always changing so it is a challenging role that offers opportunities to work directly with customers and leaders, learning multiple systems, utilizing SAS/SQL skills and collaborating with multiple business segments and government entities on streamlining processes and analytical trend analysis. This position offers a supportive team environment, cross-training opportunities, and solid potential for growth.

Job Scope and Leveling Guidelines:

  • 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
  • Works with minimal guidance; seeks guidance on only the most complex tasks
  • Translates concepts into practice
  • Provides explanations and information to others on difficult issues
  • Coaches, provides feedback, and guides others
  • Acts as a resource for others with less experience


You‘ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.


Primary Responsibilities:

  • Be the primary Finance point of contact with Operations, CFO, Health plan Accounting, FP&A, Actuary, Claims, Med Economics, Revenue Integrity, and Revenue Accuracy business partners for your Medicaid health plan(s)
  • Develop, perform and manage the analyses of business and financial metrics as well as performance measures for one or more of our Medicaid markets
  • Analyzing large ambiguous datasets while transforming the data into structured and user-friendly reporting
  • Prepare, analyze, and present financial information and summarize for leadership with reporting monthly
  • Work closely with the business to develop, recommend and establish strategies, plans and processes to improve profitability and cost efficiencies
  • Work with minimal guidance to assess, adapt and interpret customer needs and requirements in a complex matrix environment
  • Act as a resource to others and provide feedback and guidance
  • Prepare ad-hoc requests as necessary by management team


You‘ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor‘s degree in Finance, Accounting or related
  • 3+ years of financial and operational management experience
  • 3+ years of experience working collaboratively and influence across a matrix environment to drive revenue enhancement and expense management initiatives
  • Experience driving business performance in a high growth environment
  • Work experience anticipating Accounting, Financial Reporting, forecasting and operational issues, assessing their implications and developing and implementing an appropriate action plan
  • Proficiency with MS Excel (Pivot Tables, advanced formula usage, data analysis)
  • Proven comfortable working with large ambiguous datasets with persistence to find the right answer
  • Proven ability to independently solve complex problems and conduct complex analyses
  • Proven ability to work and learn independently seeking guidance on only the most complex tasks
  • Proven ability to develop innovative approaches to solving problems and gain efficiencies for the team
  • Demonstrates flexibility to seamlessly reprioritize and pivot on deliverables
  • Demonstrates a high degree of Accountability
  • Demonstrates excellent communication skills, both verbal and written


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Financial planning & analysis experience
  • Healthcare or insurance industry experience
  • SmartView, PeopleSoft Financials, SAS/SQL, Fin360


*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group‘s Telecommuter Policy


California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $70,200 to $137,800 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you‘ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.


Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.


At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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.


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