Senior Business Analyst

Optum; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Optum in Ireland is seeking a Business Analyst who will strengthen forecasting accuracy, data quality, and decision support across high-volume financial workflows. You will own invoicing and billing processes and translate complex activity into clear executive reporting.

The role offers hybrid work arrangements with Dublin or Letterkenny office options and remote days from home. Candidates should have Finance Operations, Billing, SQL, and cloud analytics experience to drive automated, scalable

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Finance Operations, Billing, Invoicing, Revenue Cycle, or Analytics roles supporting complex, high-volume operational or financial environments.
• Proven experience with billing processes, invoice cycles, reconciliation, and financial controls within a structured enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated proficiency in SQL for querying and analyzing data from server-level table views and enterprise data sources.
• Proven experience working with cloud-based data warehouse or analytics platforms, including querying, validation, and downstream reporting use cases.
• Proven ability to analyze large, ambiguous, or incomplete data sets and identify clear conclusions, themes, and trends.
• Demonstrated solid analytical and problem-solving skills, including trend analysis, root cause analysis, and connecting billing activity to business outcomes.
• Demonstrated proficiency across hybrid analytics environments, including SQL and at least one additional analytics or scripting tool such as Python, R, or advanced Excel.
• Proven experience with data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance processes to ensure confidence in billing outputs and financial recommendations.
• Demonstrated solid communication and data storytelling skills with the ability to explain outcomes, drivers, and recommended actions.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and operate effectively in evolving environments with developing data and process maturity.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end invoicing and billing processes, including Commercial Billing, Intersegment Billing, and related invoicing workflows, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance
• Support financial operations reporting by maintaining and improving billing input files, monthly planning support files, and tracking outputs
• Partner with Finance, Operations, and technical teams to ensure alignment between billing activity and financial outcomes, confidently articulating assumptions and methodology
• Maintain a deep understanding of upstream billing and invoicing drivers and clearly articulate their downstream financial and operational impact
• Drive the transition from manual, file-based billing workflows to automated and scalable data solutions
• Define and enforce data quality, validation, and reconciliation controls across invoicing and billing outputs, ensuring confidence in executive-facing metrics
• Communicate complex billing and financial findings clearly to stakeholders, including explaining variances, risks, and process changes
• Act as a thought partner in ongoing data platforms and reporting modernization initiatives, including readiness for migration to Snowflake or similar cloud-based environments
• Any other activities as required

Skills

SQL

Python

R

Advanced Excel

Data storytelling

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Data validation

Communication

Tools

Snowflake

SQL Server

Excel

Job description

Optum is a global organization 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.

As a Fortune 3 business, we're one of the world's leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you'll have or the challenges you'll encounter. We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of more than 2,100 talented individuals.

The Business Analyst will play a critical role in strengthening forecasting accuracy, data quality, and decision support across high-volume operational and financial workflows. This role sits at the intersection of Finance Operations, Billing, and Data Insights with responsibility for owning and modernizing invoicing and billing processes while supporting scalable analytics and reporting foundations. A core focus of this role is reducing concentration risk in Commercial Billing, Intersegment Billing, and related invoicing processes, while elevating the quality of financial outputs shared with stakeholders. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in finance operations, billing cycles, and analytics, with the ability to translate complex financial activity into clear, accurate reporting and executive insights.

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 Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end invoicing and billing processes, including Commercial Billing, Intersegment Billing, and related invoicing workflows, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance
• Support financial operations reporting by maintaining and improving billing input files, monthly planning support files, and tracking outputs
• Partner with Finance, Operations, and technical teams to ensure alignment between billing activity and financial outcomes, confidently articulating assumptions and methodology
• Maintain a deep understanding of upstream billing and invoicing drivers and clearly articulate their downstream financial and operational impact
• Drive the transition from manual, file-based billing workflows to automated and scalable data solutions
• Define and enforce data quality, validation, and reconciliation controls across invoicing and billing outputs, ensuring confidence in executive-facing metrics
• Communicate complex billing and financial findings clearly to stakeholders, including explaining variances, risks, and process changes
• Act as a thought partner in ongoing data platforms and reporting modernization initiatives, including readiness for migration to Snowflake or similar cloud-based environments
• Any other activities as required

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.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience in Finance Operations, Billing, Invoicing, Revenue Cycle, or Analytics roles supporting complex, high-volume operational or financial environments
• Proven experience with billing processes, invoice cycles, reconciliation, and financial controls within a structured enterprise environment
• Demonstrated proficiency in SQL for querying and analyzing data from server-level table views and enterprise data sources
• Proven experience working with cloud-based data warehouse or analytics platforms, including querying, validation, and downstream reporting use cases
• Proven ability to analyze large, ambiguous, or incomplete data sets and identify clear conclusions, themes, and trends
• Demonstrated solid analytical and problem-solving skills, including trend analysis, root cause analysis, and connecting billing activity to business outcomes
• Demonstrated proficiency across hybrid analytics environments, including SQL and at least one additional analytics or scripting tool such as Python, R, or advanced Excel
• Proven experience with data validation, reconciliation, and quality assurance processes to ensure confidence in billing outputs and financial recommendations
• Demonstrated solid communication and data storytelling skills with the ability to explain outcomes, drivers, and recommended actions
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and operate effectively in evolving environments with developing data and process maturity

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience supporting healthcare, revenue cycle, or other regulated operational environments where billing accuracy and financial integrity are critical
• Proven experience with Snowflake or participation in data migration and modernization initiatives involving cloud-based analytics platforms
• Demonstrated familiarity with data modeling, semantic layers, curated reporting views, or analytics engineering concepts and practices

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: 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. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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