Senior Finance Consultant - Remote
About The Position
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The Senior Finance Consultant – GICS (Global Infrastructure and Cloud Services) partners with Optum Technology Infrastructure leaders to provide strategic financial support across enterprise infrastructure services, including data centers, cloud platforms, networks, compute, storage, and resiliency operations. This role focuses on run the business financial management, cost transparency, and investment governance to ensure infrastructure spend is well understood, optimized, and aligned to Optum Technology operational and reliability objectives. The consultant acts as a trusted advisor, translating complex financial and usage data into actionable insights for Infrastructure and Platform leaders. This role offers the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S., with a requirement for hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
- 5+ years of experience in finance, FP&A, consulting, or business partnering roles
- Solid experience with forecasting, variance analysis, and financial modeling
- Advanced Excel and financial reporting skills; enterprise financial systems experience
- Proven ability to partner with Technology and Infrastructure leaders
- Demonstrated communication skills with experience presenting to senior leadership
Nice To Haves
- MBA or advanced degree
- CPA, CFA, or equivalent certification
- Experience supporting Infrastructure, Cloud, Platform, or IT Operations organizations
- Experience in large, matrixed, or regulated enterprises
- Familiarity with cloud economics, infrastructure cost drivers, or capacity management concepts
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary finance partner to Infrastructure Operations leadership (e.g. Data Center, Network, Platform, Reliability)
- Support operational decision making by connecting infrastructure performance, demand, and cost drivers
- Provide financial perspectives to support resiliency, capacity, modernization, and lifecycle decisions
- Lead annual budget, forecast, and outlook processes for GICS, including: On prem hosting costs, Hardware lifecycle and depreciation, Vendor and managed service spend, Labor and contract resources
- Clearly articulate forecast drivers, risks, and mitigation strategies to senior leaders
- Support long range infrastructure planning aligned to Optum Tech strategy and roadmaps
- Drive visibility into infrastructure run costs, including fixed vs. variable components
- Partner with technical leaders to: Improve cost predictability, Identify efficiency and optimization opportunities, Evaluate tradeoffs between cost, performance, and reliability
- Support allocation, show back, or chargeback methodologies as applicable
- Develop financial analysis and business cases for: Cloud migrations and optimization initiatives, Data center exit / consolidation efforts, Resiliency, capacity, and performance investments
- Perform scenario modeling, ROI, and cost benefit analysis to support investment prioritization
- Support capital vs. expense tradeoff evaluations
- Build and maintain reporting that links financials with operational metrics, such as utilization, capacity, demand growth, and service reliability
- Enable leadership discussions by synthesizing complex data into clear, executive ready insights
- Support governance forums with timely and accurate financial perspectives
- Ensure disciplined financial management aligned with Optum and UHG policies
- Support infrastructure investment governance, intake, and prioritization processes
- Identify opportunities to streamline finance processes, reporting, and tools supporting Infra Ops
- Partner closely with Enterprise Finance, Technology Finance peers, and Infrastructure stakeholders
- Mentor and provide guidance to junior finance partners
- Communicate effectively with highly technical leaders, bridging finance and infrastructure perspectives
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits package
- incentive and recognition programs
- equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
- career development opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
