Ireland Job Openings

Optum

Accounting Consultant

Letterkenny

FULL TIME

September 2, 2024

Accounting Consultant, Letterkenny
Optum is a global organisation 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.
About the Role:
In healthcare, evolution doesn’t just happen. It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways. And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.
As the fastest growing part of the United Health Group family of businesses, we’re expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work. We’ll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career. You’ll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.
As an Accounting Consultant you will be supporting statutory audit, compliance and regulatory reporting requirements.. The Accounting Consultant is essential for ensuring and maintain an internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting. Working alongside the Finance and Accounting teams, you’ll have the opportunity to manage both long and short-term projects effectively while working collaboratively in inter-departmental settings to accomplish tasks and goals. In addition to having impact on a great team, you'll also discover the career opportunities you'd expect from an industry leader.
Working Schedule:
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 or Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities of the Accounting Consultant:

Prepare legal entity financial statements in accordance with IFRS and US GAAP.
Maintain an internal control structure and procedures for financial reporting.
Create, document, review and approve journal entries (e.g., journal upload, general ledger queries).
Prepare, review and approve account reconciliations.
Proactively analyse financial data to identify and address potential accounting issues on an ongoing basis, ensuring compliance with US and International GAAP.
Solve complex accounting problems and develop innovative solutions when resolving issues.
Demonstrate understanding of intercompany relationships and organizational structures (e.g., segments, legal entities) required to record both intercompany and intersegment transactions.
Define, develop and improve business and accounting processes, leveraging latest technology to automate and digitalize processes.
Perform financial variance analysis and provide explanations (period-over-period actuals) for Income statement, Balance sheet and Cash flow projections.
Anticipates customer needs and proactively develops solutions to meet them.
Partner with peers in other finance teams to streamline processes and implement best practice across geographies.

You will be rewarded and recognised 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 of the Accounting Consultant:

Fully Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA)
Multi-national experience
Working knowledge of both US GAAP and IFRS accounting and financial statement preparation under multiple GAAPs.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications of the Accounting Consultant:

Experience with People Soft Financial
Excel Add-in Tools such as Smart View

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.
All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the United Health Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
At United Health 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 marginalised 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. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.
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