Finance Manager2381710 | Minneapolis, Minnesota | Remote

Finance Manager

Optum Rx is seeking a Finance Manager to join the Optum Rx FP&A Consolidations team. This highly visible role will support enterprise-wide financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and executive-level insights across Optum Rx. Reporting directly to the Director of Finance, this position will serve as a key business partner to senior finance leadership and executive stakeholders, helping drive strategic decision-making through consolidated financial analysis, performance reporting, and forecasting.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the consolidation, analysis, and reporting of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial results across Optum Rx, ensuring accuracy, transparency, and timely delivery of key financial insights
• Develop and maintain executive reporting packages that clearly communicate financial performance, key business drivers, risks, opportunities, and outlooks for Optum Rx leadership
• Partner with finance teams across Optum Rx to coordinate annual planning, budgeting, monthly forecasts, and long-range strategic planning activities
• Analyze actual results versus forecast, budget, and prior year, identifying key trends, variances, and emerging business risks and opportunities
• Support preparation of materials for senior executive reviews, business performance discussions, earnings support, and strategic operating reviews
• Collaborate with business unit finance leaders to ensure alignment on assumptions, forecast methodologies, and financial performance expectations
• Develop scalable reporting and planning processes, leveraging automation and analytics to improve efficiency, consistency, and insights across the organization
• Deliver actionable recommendations to finance leadership by connecting financial results to operational, market, and industry dynamics
• Support special projects, business cases, and ad hoc analyses for executive leadership and key strategic initiatives
• Drive continuous improvement of FP&A processes, planning tools, data governance, and financial reporting capabilities

Required Qualifications:

• BA / BS Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in Finance, Accounting, Economics, OR related degree
• 5+ years of financial and / or accounting OR related experience
• 5+ years of experience with supporting budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, and business performance analysis within a complex organization
• 5+ years of work experience with anticipating accounting, financial reporting, forecasting and operational issues, assessing their implications and developing and implementing an appropriate action plan
• 5+ years of experience with using Microsoft Excel in a professional setting, demonstrating advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including financial modeling (data visualization, pivot tables, XLOOKUP, index / match, and writing complex formulas)
• 3+ years of intermediate level experience with Microsoft PowerPoint in a professional setting, creating and designing presentations for executive-level audiences
• 3+ years of experience with comfortably presenting financial information to business partners and leaders
• Ability to work any of our shift schedules during our normal business hours of 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, including the flexibility to work weekends given the business need

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct OR indirect people management experience
• Experience with Hyperion Essbase, Smart View, Oracle EPM, SQL, Data Bricks, Power BI, OR similar enterprise planning and reporting tools
• Experience with supporting enterprise FP&A, corporate finance, healthcare services, PBM, OR matrixed organizations
• Experience with preparing executive, board-level, OR earnings-support financial materials
• Knowledge of healthcare, pharmacy benefit management (PBM), OR managed care financial drivers

Telecommuting Requirements:

• Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure (if applicable)
• Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separated from other living areas and provides information privacy
• Must live in a location that can receive a United Health Group approved high-speed internet connection or leverage an existing high-speed internet service

Soft Skills:

• Strong analytical, communication, and relationship-building skills with the ability to effectively partner across multiple teams and organizational levels

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary for this role will range from $91,700 - $163,700 annually based on full-time employment.

We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Final date to receive applications:
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.

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