[Remote] Associate Director, Financial Systems and Data Analytics - Remote

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is hiring an Associate Director to support Revenue Manager, an internal financial application that processes healthcare data for month-end accounting and journal entries. The role bridges healthcare source systems, financial operations, and analytics by supporting integrations, investigating data issues, and translating business needs into scalable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop an end-to-end understanding of Revenue Manager, including source-data intake, transformation, financial processing, validation, reconciliation, controls, and journal entry output
• Analyze data from clinical Practice Management Systems and support onboarding and integration activities, including source-data research, mapping, testing, validation, and production readiness
• Investigate trends, anomalies, data gaps, and root causes that may affect accounting operations, revenue recognition, reconciliations, or financial reporting
• Write and review complex SQL queries and stored procedures to analyze data, troubleshooting issues, validating results, and support reporting and production processes
• Translate accounting, finance, and operational needs into functional requirements, technical specifications, data mappings, process flows, testing plans, and analytical outputs
• Use Snowflake, SQL Server, Power BI, Tableau, Excel, or similar tools to deliver actionable insights and support scalable data and reporting solutions
• Partner with business analysts, data engineers, software engineers, and technology teams to design, test, implement, and maintain reliable solutions
• Improve data quality, standardization, automation, system performance, monitoring, and the accounting control environment
• Develop repeatable validation, reconciliation, testing, documentation, and production-support practices aligned with accounting, audit, security, and data-governance requirements
• Evaluate automation and emerging technologies where they can improve efficiency, data quality, or supportability
• Partner across Accounting, Finance, Revenue Cycle, Operations, Analytics, Engineering, and Technology to resolve complex data and financial-system issues
• Manage multiple priorities independently, communicate risks and findings clearly, and serve as a subject matter expert for assigned initiatives
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge sharing without direct people-management responsibility

Skills

• 7+ years of experience in financial systems, data analytics, business systems analysis, data engineering, software development, or a related area
• 5+ years of experience writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures involving multiple tables, joins, subqueries, data transformations, or production processes
• Experience with SQL Server, Snowflake, or a comparable relational or cloud-based data platform
• Experience analyzing complex healthcare, financial, accounting, or operational data and identifying root causes
• Experience translating business requirements into functional or technical deliverables, including data mappings, process flows, testing plans, or system documentation
• Experience working with data warehouse concepts including dimensional modeling, fact and dimension tables, star schemas, data lineage, and source-to-target mappings
• Experience creating and maintaining technical documentation including source-to-target mappings, business rules, reconciliation logic, data dictionaries, and operational procedures
• Experience supporting data or analytics solutions through analysis, testing, implementation, deployment, maintenance, or production support
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives, influence stakeholders, facilitate decision making, and provide technical leadership in a matrixed environment without direct supervisory responsibility
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively across business and technical teams
• Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, written communication, verbal communication, and stakeholder-management skills
• Experience with clinical Practice Management Systems such as Epic, eClinicalWorks, Athenahealth, NextGen, Allscripts, or similar platforms
• Experience analyzing healthcare datasets such as claims, membership, roster, payer, encounter, patient accounting, payment, insurance, or clinical revenue data
• Experience using AI-assisted development, analytics, automation, or documentation tools to improve productivity, testing, operational support, or analysis workflows
• Experience with accounting processes, month-end close, journal entries, financial data validation, reconciliations, automated controls, or financial reporting
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Excel, Azure, Python, SAS, SmartView, .NET applications, or similar technologies
• Experience improving data governance, process standardization, automation, controls, or high-volume financial data applications
• Experience with Agile delivery methods or healthcare technology compliance and security frameworks
• Advanced SQL and Snowflake experience, including query performance optimization and analysis across multiple data sources

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, subject to eligibility requirements
• Incentive and recognition programs, subject to eligibility requirements
• Equity stock purchase, subject to eligibility requirements
• 401k contribution, subject to eligibility requirements
• Remote work from anywhere within the U.S.; hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area are required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week

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