Senior Analyst, Strategy & Operations (Finance)

Senior Analyst, Strategy & Operations (Finance) Why Optum, why now: Optum Care California is a high-growth, value-based care provider with ambitions to scale our award-winning value-based care model to millions more patients. To do so, we are bringing together best-in-class provider groups currently serving a large patient base into a unified Optum brand and operating model. Our transformation to One Optum is shaping the future of the healthcare industry and value-based care. The collective strength of this unified market can offer patients and team members an experience of healthcare that far surpasses previous experiences. As part of the Transformation Project Management office, you will play a critical role in gathering, analyzing, and reporting on the information needed by senior leaders that will enable them to make key decisions during our transformation. Your day-to-day work will support the creation of tools, frameworks, dashboards, and communications, working in a highly collaborative team and across corporate and market-level functions, leveraging existing subject matter experts. Why you: You want to work in an innovative health care delivery organization with a start-up culture, drive immediate impact, and scale a transformation strategy. We are looking for candidates who are passionate about healthcare and bring a highly collaborative and self-motivated spirit to join our transformation team. Your experience in managing projects, understanding complexities in tracking in reporting across multiple teams and functions, especially Finance, and your ability to problem solve within and across team, organize, and prioritize information, and manage confidential material relating to corporate and org decisions is essential to a successful transformation. Throughout the transformation, you will work closely with the entire California-based team. You will report to the Director of Transformation, with coaching from the PMO manager of Transformation. Essential Functions: Partners with Finance to collect and maintain potential investments needed to support transformation and integration programs, and track value created by transformation and integration programs. Maintains via regular updates performance dashboard for enterprise KPIs and transformation value created. Efficiently prepares high-quality PowerPoint and Excel deliverables to support executive reviews and updates on cross-market transformation programs and value created by these programs. Synthesizes and provides regular updates on progress, barriers, and radar items to ensure visibility and traction on key issues. Generates insights on how to address dependencies, barriers, and risks. Develops and maintains organized documentation for efficient department operations. Leads formal and informal presentations to peers and managers and participates in active discussion with senior leaders to influence decisions. Manages peer relationships with cross-functional colleagues in support of shared deliverables. Recommends strategies in relation to report building and data capture. Conducts analysis, shapes data collection strategy, and supports quality review and interpretation of analysis. Partners with business leaders to collect integration and strategic program plans, updates, KPIs and value created in timely manner. Works with internal Communications team to cascade appropriate updates and dashboards to broad senior leadership audiences. Identifies and recommends process standardization opportunities. Education: Bachelor''s Degree in Finance, Health Administration, Business Administration, Public Health or related field, or a combination of education and/or equivalent experience specifically relevant to the primary role accountabilities. Experience: 2-3 years'' experience in finance, M&A, management consulting, internal or strategy consulting, or project management for a healthcare (preferred) organization, or progressive management experience in a related field. Knowledge of financial planning and analysis concepts and principles. Experience with program management (PMO) or performance improvement is preferred. Demonstrated project management, consulting, and facilitation skills. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities: Solid quantitative and analytical skills, complimented by ability to present synthesized information in a structured manner and attention to details. Advanced knowledge and experience in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Fluency with program management tools, especially Smartsheet, preferred. Fluency with visual data representation tools, such as Tableau, preferred. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent organization skills. Interviewing and interpersonal skills. Ability to interact collaboratively with all levels of organization including management. Careers with Optum. Here''s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. 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. Here you''ll find incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life''s best work. Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum and its affiliated medical practices are Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employers 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. Optum and its affiliated medical practices is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Created: 2025-11-15