UnitedHealth Group Hiring for Associate Accountant at Hyderabad, India Full Time

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. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as we help advance health equity on a global scale. Here, you will find talented peers, comprehensive benefits, a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, career growth opportunities and your life’s best work.(sm)

Optum is part of the family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group one of the leaders across most major segments of the US health care system. When you work with UnitedHealth care, what you do matters. It’s that simple…and it’s that challenging.

In providing consumer-oriented health benefit plans to millions of people; our goal is to create higher quality care, lower costs and greater access to health care. Join us and you will be empowered to achieve new levels of excellence and make a profound and personal impact as you contribute to new innovations in a vital and complex system.

This position supports the UNET & LOB audit process to reconcile/ tie-out/ audit the various claim platform with sub- ledger/data repository, general ledger accounts – People Soft and related activities for the production of financial statements and reports, prepare sox control packages and review accounting classifications, in accordance with generally-accepted accounting principles and preparation of documentation in support of external and internal audits. This role also requires the candidate to support Financial Data Framework project from a testing and business analysis support perspective towards streamlining the input data and thereby contribute in improving accuracy

Primary Responsibilities:

• Identifies/researches variances and provides appropriate explanations

• Be able to learn and implement basic query writing in SAS & SQL environment

• Blackline Account reconciliation and flux analysis

• Preparation of internal and external audit support documentation

• Engaging in various claims/sub ledger system projects

• 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 regards 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

• 5 – 6 years of General Accounting & Analysis experience

• Experience of General Ledger and Reconciliation

• End user experience in Access database

• Intermediate Proficiency in MS Excel, Access and MS Word

• Solid knowledge of GL and sub-GL data sources, and how the information is recorded (e.g., chart of accounts, revenues, expenses, claim costs etc.,)

• Basic understanding of how to retrieve data from company-specific financial systems and use reporting tools (e.g., Smart-view, SAS)

• Basic understanding of various data models and platforms

• Basic understanding of where and how to obtain needed information

• Effective communication skills

• Eye for detail & quick learning abilities

• Ability to collaborates with peers to complete projects

Preferred Qualifications:

• Health care experience

• SAS and SQL knowledge

• Exposure to PeopleSoft, Oracle, Black line, Month end close knowledge

Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

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.