Management Accountant

Optum is a global organisation 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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Here at Optum, we are excited to share that we have a fantastic opportunity for a Management Accountant to join us on a 12-month fixed term contract. Responsible for providing essential technology to 10,000 healthcare organisations across all major UK health sectors, we are looking for a Management Accountant experienced in revenue reporting and financial analysis to join our innovative finance team. If you are driven by building successful partnerships with commercial colleagues whilst providing financial reporting and analysis, then this could be a great fit for you!

This Management Accountant role will be split between home working and in our Leeds office on a weekly basis (LS19 6BA).

What you’ll do:

• As part of the management accounting team, we will be looking for you to play a pivotal role in supporting financial and non-financial colleagues in the business by providing analysis and insight to aid informed decision making.
• You will be responsible for producing key financial reports and commentary, forecasts and budgets.
• This is an evolving position where you will work a blended role partnering with commercial functions to provide analysis and reports whilst managing the sales incentive plan.
• This is a dynamic role that will evolve over the 12-month contract as you will work on revenue based projects and be the point of contact for queries with support from our Senior Finance Business Partner.

Other key responsibilities and accountabilities will include:

• Administer sales incentive plans (SIP)
• Produce weekly, monthly and quarterly revenue reporting and analysis
• Ad hoc reporting or analysis for commercial stakeholders

Who You’ll Be:

We need you to be a Qualified Management Accountant with a proven track record for producing sales or cost analysis. You will have a full understanding of financial reporting, being able to provide commentary surrounding analysis to non-financial stakeholders. In previous Management Accountant jobs, you will have had exposure to improving processes and implementing ways of working. We’re looking for collaborators, who can demonstrate previous experience of working with the wider business to manage financial queries and support with commercial contracts. With advanced Excel skills you will be able to produce financial reporting with exposure to financial systems such as D365.

You will be rewarded and recognized 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.

Other useful skills and experience include:

• Qualified accountant
• Experience working with non-finance stakeholders
• Experience in forecasting, budgeting, reporting and analysis
• Self-Starter with a solid work ethic

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.

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 Traveler community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace.