Finance Manager

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.

In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.

As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive. 

This role will support the Optum Insight expense portfolio, with ownership of real-time forecasting across multiple markets. Success in this role will be dependent on an ability to successfully navigate and influence change across a matrix environment, communicate effectively, quickly adapt to changing priorities, and help lead a team in the context of a fast paced and high-growth environment that has a long-term commitment to making health care better for everyone.

Working Schedule: Full-time position with standard working hours of Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm. 

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.  

Primary Responsibilities:  

• Develop, perform, and manage expense analyses and cost performance metrics for Payment Integrity
• Serve as the primary finance point of contact with Operations. Collaborate closely with the business to develop, recommend, and establish saving strategies, plans, and processes to enhance profitability and cost efficiencies
• Maintain real-time, driver-based expense forecasting and modeling. Clearly communicate actual results, forecasted performance, and variances to plan, forecast, and budget
• Develop analytics, including trend analysis and report building, to drive transparency and insight into results
• Collaborate with Business Unit Finance, FP&A, Accounting, and Revenue Analytics teams to identify best practices for forecasting, monitoring expenses, cost management scenarios, and trend analysis
• Support Operations teams with ad-hoc scenario analysis and enhancement of productivity metrics to enable better business decision-making
• Inspire, drive, and implement ideas for a new and evolving finance operating model

You will be rewarded and recognised 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in. 

Required Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Accounting, Finance, Economics or equivalent experience
• Relevant financial analysis and analytic experience
• Intermediate level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and other technology tools
• Experience anticipating accounting, financial reporting, forecasting and operational issues, assessing their implications and developing and implementing an appropriate action plan
• Experience working collaboratively and influence across a matrix environment to drive expense and cost management initiatives

Preferred Qualifications:           

• MBA or CPA

Soft Skills:

• Ability to be comfortable with some level of ambiguity and persistence to find the right answer
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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