Business Analyst Disbursements Team - Multiple locations

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Analyst will perform duties for rebate accounting and financial reporting within the Accounting department of OptumRx, the pharmacy benefit management division of UnitedHealth Group. (Rebates from the pharmaceutical industry comprise a substantial portion of the segment's multi-billion-dollar annual revenue.)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Can analyze and understand large data sets
• Extract, consolidate, and map data obtained from various systems and sources
• Can understand, interpret, and perform analysis of contracts, terms in contracts, concepts such as exclusions
• Perform ad hoc reporting and analysis and investigate issues providing explanations and interpretation for stakeholders
• Has a level of self-confidence as to understand the definitions of the role and enforce the boundaries of our scope of work
• Can communicate efficiently in client facing environments
• Significant exposure to company leaders through working on high profile clients and participation in cross functional initiatives
• Can effectively multi-task
• Collaborate with other departments and divisions, including Forecasting, Pricing, Industry Relations, Client Management, and Regulatory Reporting
• Prepare account fluctuation analysis and provide business drivers to Management
• Develop innovative approaches for improvement in efficiency and effectiveness

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:

• Bachelors with concentration in Accounting, Finance, Business or related field
• 4+ years of Accounting, Finance, transaction analysis or related experience
• Intermediate level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel
• Employees are required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener prior to entering the work site each day, in order to keep our work sites safe. Employees must comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained

Preferred Qualifications:

• Anticipate customer needs and proactively develops solutions to meet them
• Healthcare, Pharmaceutical and / or PBM industry experience
• Experience working with databases to load data, run queries, and perform reporting
• Customer service experience
• Experience working with large sets of data

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: Accounting Disbursements Senior Analyst, Eden Prairie, MN, Schaumburg, IL, Irvine, CA