Finance Business Partner

UnitedHealth Group; Yeadon; Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Finance Business Partner for their dynamic FP&A team. This hybrid role involves working closely with stakeholders to drive financial performance through budgeting, forecasting, and analysis. Ideal candidates will be finance qualified with strong analytics and communication skills to influence key business decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience in a business partnering, commercial, or FP&A role.
• Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis processes.
• Ability to track financial risk and opportunity.

Responsibilities

• Support the month-end cycle for accurate financial reporting.
• Promote good cost management and assist with resource allocation.
• Prepare forecasts and reports for UK businesses.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Education

Qualified finance professional

Tools

Excel

Job description

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.

Here at Optum UK, we are excited to share that we have a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and collaborative Finance Business Partner to join our dynamic FP&A team. As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business to support cost management, forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis. You’ll play a key role in ensuring financial goals are met and resources are allocated effectively.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, forward-thinking environment and is passionate about using financial insight to drive business performance.

This Finance Business Partner role is hybrid working. Our finance team meet weekly in our Leeds (LS19 6BA) office for collaborative meetings.

What you’ll do:

As a Finance Business Partner, you’ll play a key role in supporting the business to achieve its financial and operational targets. You will build relationships with stakeholders to understand their operational issues and goals, to enable you to prepare robust and well understood budgets and forecasts as part of the wider Group planning exercises.

Commercially focused, you’ll work with colleagues in the controllership team to support an accurate and timely financial close as part of the month-end cycle, and use the knowledge gained and your relationships with stakeholders to support the preparation of forecasts that help the business plan effectively.This is a hands-on role where your analytical skills and commercial acumen will be highly valued.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Supporting the month end cycle by working closely with the controllership team to provide guidance and insight that ultimately result in accurate and timely actual costs
• Promoting good cost management through review of purchase orders or other documentation, ensuring financial implications are understood and communicated
• Assist with reporting aspects, such as the preparation of the combined UK businesses forecasts through consolidation and top level analysis and supporting the preparation of more formal monthly reporting packs in USD
• Using Group wide reporting and forecasting systems and technology to drive efficiency and accuracy

Who You’ll Be:

We need you to be a qualified finance professional who is confident working with both financial and non-financial stakeholders. You will have demonstrated previous experience in a business partnering, commercial or FP&A role.

With a solid understanding of budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis processes, alongside excellent analytical skills, you will have the ability to track financial risk and opportunity to support operational goals.

You will be rewarded and recognized 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.

Other useful skills and experience include:

• Proven excellent analytical and mathematical skills with the ability to interpret financial data and provide meaningful insights in a clear format
• Proven solid communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and challenge stakeholders across different functions
• Demonstrated a high level of expertise in Excel, and be capable of organising and interpreting large datasets, ensuring accuracy and completeness
• Ability to be a confident self-starter, comfortable working remotely as well as in person
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, matrixed, multi-currency, multi-entity environment
• Experience with financial close / month end including a working knowledge of accounting concepts such as accrual accounting and double entry
• Experience in technology, software, or healthcare sectors is advantageous but not essential

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.

At UnitedHealth 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 marginalized 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: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law. UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. 2025 UnitedHealth Group. All rights reserved.