Senior Accountant

Requisition Number: 2347375
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform assigned work in a self-directed manner
• Own primary responsibility for the accuracy and completeness of deliverables assigned
• 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 cycles. Review trend analysis and prepare commentary on the variances.
• Prepare journal entries (Accruals, prepaids, reclasses, Intercompany, Allocations etc.) and review accounting classifications, in accordance with generally-accepted accounting principles
• Prepares monthly balance sheet reconciliations (Blackline) and identifies and researches reconciling items
• Review expense reports from Concur, Ariba & Ledger and do the appropriate accounting entries during month close period.
• Own primary responsibility for the fulfillment of audit (internal and external) requests, as needed
• Sense of urgency for getting work done, act within deadlines, show a significant level of effort, persistence, and time commitment to achieve goals and meet deadlines
• Create specific plans to meet the goals, seek to accomplish measurable results
• Drive improvement & enhancement to increase productivity and leverage RPA/technology to reduce time spent on manual intensive process / recurring tasks and reports
• Perform ad hoc reporting and analysis and investigate issues providing explanations and interpretation
• Perform work in a both team-oriented and self-directed work environments and demonstrate ability to work with less structured, more complex issues
• Serve as a resource to others within the Controllership, including staff based in US
• Collaborate with team members including US team on special projects, as needed
• Identify and analyze clinical cash reconciliation and report unusual transactions
• Prepare and analyze cash/bank account reconciliations, investigate unapplied items and clear billing
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• B.Com/M.Com, MBA Finance, CA Inter, equivalent experience ( 7+ years) - CA's (5+ years Post Qualification)
• 7+ years of rofessional accounting experience
• Comes with good experience working with reporting tools like Blackline, Concur, Ariba, Hyperion smartview and PeopleSoft General ledger
• Experience working with general ledger / sub-ledger accounting applications
• Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP and Financial Statements
• Advance proficiency utilizing Microsoft Office Suite applications (Advanced Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
• Proven analytical skills and an eye for detail. Hands on exposure to
  • Variance analysis & commentary writing
  • Balance Sheet reconciliations, investigate and resolve reconciling items
  • GL ledger accounting (Preparing / Posting Journals, Accruals, Reversing Journals etc.)
  • Correctly applying US GAAP and company practices to assigned work
  • Running queries in a general ledger system
  • Responding to internal and external auditor requests
  • Proposing solutions to noted problems
  • Documenting methodology, analysis and conclusions
• Proven excellent Written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability work independently in self-directed manner and able to handle multiple tasks
• Proven to anticipate customer needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them

Preferred Qualifications:

• Finance experience in any insurance industry (health insurance industry)
• Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Access/VBA/Power Query/SQL etc.

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.
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