The Role
Lead record-to-report accounting for the Home & Community team: maintain GL accounts, prepare month-end close, perform balance sheet reconciliations (Blackline), variance analysis and commentary, post journals and accruals, support audits, handle ad-hoc reporting, and collaborate with US stakeholders to ensure accurate financial statements under US GAAP.
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Requisition Number: 2344325
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.
This position requires resource to work on accounting & reporting for Home & Community team under the Optum Health segment independently. Resource would need to work on journals, blackline reconciliations and internal reporting including adhoc requests from business partners. Resource should have good understanding of U.S. GAAP and Financial Statements
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualification:
Work Hours: Regular shift hours : 3.30 PM to 1:00 AM IST
Monthend/quarter/year end: Shadow US work hours ( 6:00 PM to 3.30 AM IST )
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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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.
This position requires resource to work on accounting & reporting for Home & Community team under the Optum Health segment independently. Resource would need to work on journals, blackline reconciliations and internal reporting including adhoc requests from business partners. Resource should have good understanding of U.S. GAAP and Financial Statements
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.
- 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
- Have a 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
- 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
- Stakeholders for the role
- ' Accounting Managers, Directors & Controller's
- 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 regard 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 ( 8+ years) - CA's (6+ Years Post Qualification)
- 8+ years of professional accounting experience
Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP and Financial Statements - Comes with good experience working with reporting tools like Blackline, Concur, Ariba, Hyperion smartview and PeopleSoft General ledger
- Advance proficiency utilizing Microsoft Office Suite applications (Advanced Excel, Word, Powerpoint)
- Past experience working with general ledger / sub-ledger accounting applications
- 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
- Excellent Written and verbal communication skills
- Ability work independently in self-directed manner and able to handle multiple tasks
- Anticipate customer needs and proactively develop solutions to meet them
Preferred Qualification:
- Finance experience in any insurance industry. (health insurance industry preferred).
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Access/VBA/Power Query/SQL etc.
Work Hours: Regular shift hours : 3.30 PM to 1:00 AM IST
Monthend/quarter/year end: Shadow US work hours ( 6:00 PM to 3.30 AM IST )
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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Skills Required
- B.Com, M.Com, MBA Finance, CA Inter or equivalent experience (8+ years); CA's 6+ years post qualification
- 8+ years of professional accounting experience
- Solid understanding of U.S. GAAP and financial statements
- Experience with Blackline, Concur, Ariba, Hyperion SmartView and PeopleSoft General Ledger
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office (Advanced Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
- Experience with general ledger and sub-ledger accounting applications
- Hands-on exposure to variance analysis and commentary writing
- Experience preparing monthly balance sheet reconciliations and investigating reconciling items
- GL accounting experience (preparing/posting journals, accruals, reversing journals)
- Ability to correctly apply US GAAP and company accounting practices
- Ability to run queries in a general ledger system
- Experience responding to internal and external auditor requests
- Analytical skills, attention to detail, and documentation of methodology and conclusions
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently, manage multiple tasks, and meet deadlines
- Anticipate customer needs and proactively develop solutions
- Finance experience in insurance (health insurance preferred)
- Intermediate proficiency with Microsoft Access, VBA, Power Query, SQL
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The Company
What We Do
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, 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. At Optum, we support your well-being with an understanding team, extensive benefits and rewarding opportunities. By joining us, you’ll have the resources to drive system transformation while we help you take care of your future. We recognize the power of connection to drive change, improve efficiency and make a difference in health care. Join a team where your skills and ideas can make an impact and where collaboration is key to creating technology that produces healthier outcomes.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Optum has three workplace models that balance the needs of the business and the responsibilities of each role. These models, core on‑site (5 days/week), hybrid (4 days/week) and telecommute or fully remote, vary by country, role and location.
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