UnitedHealth Group Hiring for Accounting Consultant – Letterkenny, Ireland Job at Letterkenny , Ireland Full Time

If you want to achieve more in your mission of health care, you have to be really smart about the business of health care. Financial discipline and accountability count more today than ever. Which is why your performance and innovation will find a reception here like nowhere else as you help people live healthier lives while doing your life’s best work.(sm)

About the role:

As an Accounting Consultant, you will maintain general ledger accounts and related activities for the production of financial statements and reports. You will perform account reconciliations and analyses, prepares journal entries and reviews accounting classifications, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, both US GAAP and Local GAAP. You will also analyze and prepare financial statements, including balance sheets and statements of financial position, be involved in the monthly/quarterly “close” process, and prepare documentation in support of external and internal audits.

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 Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create, document, review and approve journal entries (e.g., journal upload, general ledger queries)
• Prepare, review and approve account reconciliations
• Demonstrate understanding of intercompany relationships and organizational structures (e.g., segments, legal entities) needed to record intersegment transactions and allocations
• Perform financial variance analysis and explanation (actuals vs. forecast, period-over-period actuals) for Income statement, Balance sheet and Cash flow
• Define, develop and improve business and accounting processes, leveraging latest technology to automate and digitalize processes.
• Manage, create and submit internal month end analyses and reporting to consolidation and management team.
• Supports/maintains the underlying GL structure, and provides recommendations on potential changes that may impact financial reporting and create value
• Proactively identifies and addresses potential accounting errors/risks on an ongoing basis, ensuring compliance with US and International GAAP.
• Solves complex problems and develops innovative solutions.
• Anticipates customer needs and proactively develops solutions to meet them.
• Partner with peers to develop and implement best practice across geographies utilizing time zones to provide around the clock service to our customers.

You’ll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Fully Qualified Accountant plus extensive post qualification experience
• Established accounting experience within a multinational organizational environment
• Proven experience with multicurrency accounting
• Fully proficient in MS Excel
• Experience with system integration
• Ability to work a portion of monthly work hours from our Letterkenny office is required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with PeopleSoft Financial
• Excel Add-in Tools such as SmartView
• Experience with system integration
• Experience writing MS Excel Marco
• Experience with PowerBI

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.

Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world’s large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.SM

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

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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