Finance Associate Jobs in Minnesota

Primary Responsibilities:

• Strategic Financial Leadership
  • Lead volume forecasting, budgeting, and reporting processes across Specialty & Home Delivery pharmacies, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with business objectives
  • Own and manage the consolidated forecast and reporting cadence, including establishing clear timelines, dependencies, and review cycles across deliverables
  • Drive consistency and quality in executive-level volume & financial outputs, ensuring clear, actionable insights for leadership
• Business Planning & Analysis
  • Develop and oversee business planning initiatives that deliver insight-driven analyses and support strategic decision-making
  • Conduct ad-hoc financial and operational analyses to support cost optimization and strategic decision-making
• Analytics & Metrics Development
  • Design and enhance analytics frameworks and performance metrics to improve visibility into volume performance
  • Translate complex data into actionable insights that connect results, trends, and business drivers for senior leadership
• System Enhancement & Optimization
  • Identify and implement system and process improvements that enhance efficiency, scalability, and accuracy
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement technology and process upgrades that validate and synthesize data to inform financial planning
• Executive Advisory & Influence
  • Serve as a trusted financial advisor to senior leadership, proactively influencing decisions through data-driven insights
  • Evaluate financial plans and operational metrics to guide strategic direction
  • Ensure alignment across stakeholders by communicating clear recommendations and maintaining a forward-looking perspective
• Team Leadership & Development
  • Lead, develop, and mentor a team member in a matrixed environment
  • Set clear expectations, delegate effectively, and ensure high-quality deliverables
  • Provide oversight and direction across team outputs, ensuring a cohesive and comprehensive financial story is delivered
  • Foster a high-performance culture grounded in accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement

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:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field
• 7+ years of relevant, high-impact finance experience
• 1+ years in FP&A, P&L ownership, or consolidation-type role
• Proven excellent communication and organization skills
• Demonstrated solid analytics background and attention to details

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in pharmacy, PBM, or broader healthcare environments (e.g., health systems, payers, or healthcare services)
• 1+ years of people leadership including setting direction, delegating effectively, and ensuring high-quality team deliverables
• Experience managing multiple, concurrent deliverables in a fast-paced environment, including prioritization and on-time execution
• Experience with enterprise financial systems such as PeopleSoft/Oracle
• Background creating insight-driven financial analysis with executive-ready narratives
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative and cross-functional environment
• Demonstrated solid business acumen with the ability to proactively partner cross-functionally, validate inputs, and synthesize information into clear recommendations
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement, including leveraging evolving technologies to enhance FP&A processes and team productivity

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  All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $112,700 - $193,200 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.