Senior Financial Analyst
Role Overview
Supports Care Delivery technology operations and finance leadership across the OptumCare West Region.
Provides financial oversight for operating expenses, vendor spend, enterprise chargebacks, strategic initiatives, and a limited portfolio of capital investments.
Key Skills for This Role
Full Job Posting
Role overview
Supports Care Delivery technology operations and finance leadership across the OptumCare West Region.
Provides financial oversight for operating expenses, vendor spend, enterprise chargebacks, strategic initiatives, and a limited portfolio of capital investments.
Schedule
- Full-time, 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday.
- Must be flexible to work 8-hour shifts during normal business hours of 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. MST; occasional overtime may be needed.
Workplace
- Office-based hybrid schedule with three in-office days per week at the Draper, Utah office.
Financial planning and expense management
- Lead quarterly and annual IT operating expense forecasts across cost centers and West Region markets.
- Analyze actuals against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods; explain variances and maintain financial models and spend projections.
- Identify financial risks, opportunities, and savings; support cost-center management, accounting activity, and general ledger coding.
Chargebacks, vendors, and capital
- Analyze technology chargebacks and allocations; validate changes and improve cost-driver transparency.
- Coordinate with sourcing, procurement, accounts payable, and technology teams on vendor spend, contracts, purchase orders, and invoices.
- Monitor vendor expenses for budget alignment and cost optimization; support technology capital projects and track financial performance, timing, and funding.
Reporting and analysis
- Prepare executive presentations, dashboards, reporting packages, and financial commentary for recurring reviews.
- Develop reporting tools, forecasting models, and repeatable workflows using advanced Excel, Hyperion Essbase, Smart View, Power BI, and other tools.
- Perform strategic and ad hoc analysis for technology strategy, operational decisions, planning, and leadership requests.
Required qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- At least 2 years of financial analysis experience; the provided description is truncated after this qualification begins.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at Optum
Product Manager - Remote
Eden Prairie, USA
Optum is seeking a Product Manager to develop and implement healthcare initiatives across clinical, operations, reporting, legal, compliance, and privacy functions. You’ll shape solutions, align cross-functional stakehol
Assistant Manager
, IND
Optum seeks an Assistant Manager to lead a Payment Integrity Operations team, improve quality and productivity, and drive process improvements. Candidates need a medical degree, healthcare experience, team-management exp
Senior Business Analyst, Provider Operations
Eden Prairie, USA
Optum is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to manage provider enrollment data workflows, reporting, analysis, and process improvements. Candidates need business analysis experience, strong Microsoft Access, Teams, and SQ
Learning and Development Program Manager - Remote
, CAN
Optum is seeking a Learning and Development Program Manager to build scalable role-based and product-based training for employees and customers. The role requires 5+ years in program management, project management, IT, a
Senior AI or ML Engineer - Conversational AI, Bot Development
, USA
Sr Business Analyst - Remote
Eden Prairie, USA
Optum is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to support Medicare prescription payment program operations through configuration, testing, project coordination, documentation, reporting, and release readiness. Candidates nee
Product Manager - Remote
Eden Prairie, USA
Assistant Manager
, IND
Senior Business Analyst, Provider Operations
Eden Prairie, USA
Learning and Development Program Manager - Remote
, CAN
Senior AI or ML Engineer - Conversational AI, Bot Development
, USA
Senior Cloud Security and Compliance Auditor
, USA
Assistant Manager
, USA
Sr Business Analyst - Remote
Eden Prairie, USA