Financial Consultant

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.

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.

The Financial Consultant will support the OptumRx Discount Reconciliation team in generating client discount reconciliations.  This role is responsible for generating client reconciliations, interpreting client contracts and implementing those terms, maintaining reconciliation code, analyzing outcomes and providing insights, supporting client discount audits, and collaborating with other teams as needed.

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:

• Perform complex client pricing reconciliations through contract interpretation, financial modeling, and data analysis in support of OptumRx’s client pricing commitments for 3,000 + clients

• Interface with account management, contract management, pharmacy accounting, and legal teams in support of meeting client contractual pricing commitments and influencing change in future client contracts

• Collaborate with key business partners across the organization to develop, recommend and establish strategies, plans and processes to improve outcomes and maximize client profitability

• Deliver timely client reconciliations based upon contractual turnaround times and requests submitted by account management

• Prepare month end, and quarter close business performance reports, including variance explanations and forward-looking performance estimates

• Support Client Audit teams in responding to audit inquires and request with ad-hoc analysis and reporting utilizing various systems and tools such as SAS, Databricks, SQL, and Tableau

• Seeks out new opportunities for continuous improvement and efficiency 

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 Finance, Accounting, or related field

• ACA, ACCA, CPA or CIMA qualified or part qualified

• Analytic background with experience managing big data sets and financial modeling

• Intermediate level of proficiency with Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Preferred Qualifications: 

• PBM experience

• SAS and SQL experience

• Quantitative and analytical skills, complimented by an entrepreneurial and growth-oriented mindset 

• Experience using Microsoft PowerBI, Databrick, Tableau

Soft Skills:

• Proven experience driving business performance in a high growth environment

• Attention to details

• Ability to build solid relationships at all levels, work collaboratively and influence across a matrix environment

• High degree of initiative and self-motivation

• Proven success functioning in a dynamic professional environment where the responsibilities change regularly

• Executive presence, communication and influencing skills with internal and external stakeholders

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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