Director, Finance - Record-to-Report Transformation - Remote

UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that's dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Support the modernization of the record-to-report process by helping design, implement, and scale improvements across close, reconciliations, journal processes, consolidation, controls, and reporting. This role is well suited for a high-performing person who brings strong accounting, controllership, and transformation experience.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities

• Support shaping and executing the record to report transformation roadmap across close management, account reconciliations, journal entries, intercompany, consolidation, and management reporting
• Translate business, accounting, and controllership requirements into clear process designs, business requirements, user stories, testing scenarios, and implementation plans
• Partner with accounting, finance, technology, data, and controls teams to identify process improvement, automation, and AI-enabled use cases that enhance efficiency, accuracy, and transparency
• Help ensure solutions align with accounting policy, SOX controls, auditability, segregation of duties, and evidence retention requirements
• Lead workstreams for design, testing, user acceptance, go-live readiness, stakeholder training, and post-implementation stabilization
• Develop exe