Accounting Manager - Controllership

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 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.

Role Overview:

The Accounting Manager will play a key role within the controllership team, responsible for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of financial reporting across assigned entities. The role supports both statutory accounting and management reporting requirements, including a solid emphasis on delivering financial outputs aligned to Optum Global Advantage (OGA). 

Optum Global Advantage (OGA) operates across a multi-entity, multi-currency and multi-geography environment, spanning 5 geographies.

This role leads core accounting activities including month-end close, balance sheet management, and financial analysis, while maintaining a solid control environment. The Accounting Manager will support audit processes through the delivery of high-quality, well-supported financial information. The role requires solid technical accounting knowledge, attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities within tight deadlines.

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 in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities:

Financial Close & Reporting

• Lead and manage the month-end and quarter-end close process for assigned entities
• Ensure accurate and timely preparation and posting of controllership team journal entries
• Review and approve balance sheet reconciliations, ensuring all balances are fully supported
• Perform detailed analysis of profit and loss and balance sheet positions, including month-end estimates, variance analysis against forecast, and clear commentary. Prepare consolidated balance sheet forecasts and complete monthly balance sheet flux analysis with supporting commentary
• Ensure delivery of OGA-specific reporting requirements across multiple geographies, maintaining consistency, accuracy, and adherence to deadlines
• Ensure all reporting deadlines are met and outputs are of a high standard

Financial Control Environment

• Ensure solid financial reporting controls are in place, with an understanding of SOX requirements, to support accurate and reliable internal and external reporting
• Maintain a disciplined and well-documented approach to all accounting processes
• Ensure all financial data is complete, accurate, appropriately reviewed, and supported
• Identify and address control gaps, driving continuous improvement

Audit Support

• Support external audit teams through the provision of accurate accounting, reconciliations, and audit-ready documentation
• Respond to audit queries in a timely and professional manner
• Ensure supporting documentation is clear, complete, and easily traceable

Balance Sheet Ownership

• Take ownership of assigned balance sheet accounts, ensuring integrity and accuracy
• Proactively investigate and resolve reconciling items or discrepancies
• Identify risks and ensure appropriate escalation where required

Payroll & Complex Accounting Areas

• Oversee accounting for payroll-related entries, ensuring accurate posting and reconciliation
• Manage accounting for accruals, prepayments, intercompany balances, and complex transactions
• Ensure completeness and accuracy of inputs from upstream systems

Leadership & Team Development

• Manage and develop a team of accounting professionals
• Provide direction, technical guidance, and coaching
• Review team outputs to ensure consistency, accuracy, and audit readiness
• Foster a culture of accountability, quality, and continuous improvement

Business Partnering

• Work closely with finance colleagues and business stakeholders across multiple geographies
• Provide insight into financial results and key variances
• Support budgeting, forecasting, and ad hoc analysis where required

Process Improvement & Efficiency

• Identify opportunities to improve and streamline accounting processes
• Support the use of tools and technology to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and control
• Drive process improvement initiatives, including the use of automation and AI, to reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and enhance the quality and consistency of financial reporting. Ensure all solutions are implemented in line with control and compliance requirements

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline
• Professional accounting qualification (e.g., ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent)
• Proven solid experience in a multinational accounting or controllership environment
• Proven experience in general ledger accounting and financial close processes
• Demonstrated solid understanding of financial reporting, controls, and audit requirements
• Proven experience working in multi entity, multi currency, and multi geography environments
• Demonstrated knowledge of Irish payroll and local regulatory requirements
• Demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial systems

Scope & Impact:

• Ownership of critical financial reporting processes within controllership
• Direct impact on the accuracy and integrity of financial information
• Key contributor to a solid control and audit-ready environment
• Leadership responsibility for a team delivering high-quality outputs across multiple geographies

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 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.


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. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.