Associate Director, Strategic Finance - Optum Financial - Eden Prairie, MN

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.

Optum Financial is one of the most dynamic and strategically important businesses within United Health Group and Optum. As a growth pillar, Optum Financial plays an increasingly important role in helping consumers save, pay for, and manage health care expenses. This is an opportunity to work at the intersection of health care and financial services, where affordability, access, consumer experience, innovation, and financial discipline come together.

Optum Financial is looking to create and scale several new solutions and partnerships to drive rapid income from operations growth that complements the current business. The Associate Director, Strategic Finance will be critical to accelerating this growth by providing dedicated finance support across lines of business. The role will enable more rigorous evaluation of new products, partnerships, and investment opportunities while establishing consistent, scalable financial frameworks for shared economic models.

By bridging business development, product, and finance, this position will strengthen decision-making, improve capital allocation, and drive alignment across a highly matrixed organization. The Associate Director will develop financial models, evaluate strategic opportunities, shape deal economics, and translate ambiguous business inputs into clear, executive-ready recommendations. This is a high-impact individual contributor role with meaningful exposure to senior leaders and cross-functional teams across Optum Financial.

In addition to supporting growth investments and partnership opportunities, this role will serve as a strategic finance resource for several of Optum Financial's highest-priority initiatives. The Associate Director will lead and support cross-functional finance projects, conduct complex ad hoc analyses, develop executive-ready recommendations, and help drive enterprise initiatives that require strong financial leadership, structured problem-solving, and coordination across multiple stakeholders. The role offers a unique opportunity to influence business outcomes through both strategic growth initiatives and broader organizational priorities.

This role will be onsite in our Eden Prairie, MN location

• Develop and lead complex financial models, business cases, and scenario analyses for new products, strategic partnerships, investments, and growth opportunities
• Evaluate opportunity economics, including revenue potential, cost structure, pricing, risk, capital requirements, returns, and key sensitivities
• Partner with business development, product, technology, strategy, operations, and finance leaders to assess opportunities and structure financially sound recommendations
• Create consistent and scalable financial frameworks for shared economic models, partnership structures, pricing strategies, and investment decisions across lines of business
• Support due diligence and financial evaluation of partnerships, commercial arrangements, and selected M&A opportunities, including assessment of strategic and financial trade-offs
• Lead strategic finance support for high-priority cross-functional initiatives across Optum Financial, partnering with leaders across product, technology, operations, strategy, and finance
• Conduct complex ad hoc analyses to evaluate business performance, identify opportunities, assess risks, and support executive decision-making
• Support enterprise planning, investment prioritization, and resource allocation activities by providing fact-based financial insights and recommendations
• Drive special projects that improve operating performance, financial discipline, scalability, and long-term value creation across Optum Financial
• Translate complex and ambiguous inputs into clear assumptions, decision criteria, financial narratives, and actionable recommendations for senior leaders
• Prepare and present executive-ready materials that communicate opportunity size,…