Job Description

At UnitedHealthcare, we\xe2\x80\x99re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us and start doing your life\'s best work.(sm)

As a Capability Manager / Product Owner, the position will be responsible for ensuring the support of strategic and tactical financial projects necessary to meet the business needs of UHC Finance including general ledger accounting, financial controls & reporting, and financial data repositories & sub-ledgers. This role serves as a key liaison between the business, multiple scrum teams and the technical leadership, requiring exceptional communication skills, organizational skills, accounting acumen, and expertise in software development lifecycle management. These skills are critical to understanding the needs of our business stakeholders, managing and prioritizing the backlog, and communicating the strategic direction to team members. The candidate will provide subject matter expertise for financial applications, help shape technical solutions, collaborate with stakeholders - gather and document business requirements in features, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and take a lead role in user acceptance test planning and execution. The Capability Manager will lead the work within the scrum team, lead backlog refinement, AGILE Lean refinement and provide communication of status to senior leadership.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and facilitate the performance of one or more product teams
• Collaborate with business partners to understand business needs, facilitate the creation of features and user stories
• Provide status updates as required by program directives & PMCs
• Manage the backlog of supported teams and supervise and approve the release planning with the RTE and other members of the PMC
• Define acceptance criteria for features
• Accept Features and User Stories
• Promote financial data integrity, controls, compliance, and auditability between our accounting applications, upstream sources, downstream Financial Systems, and the General Ledger
• Master knowledge of the systematic processing of financial data from upstream source systems through our accounting functions/systems to downstream sources along with supporting business processes

Responsible for specific services, functions, and solutions available internally or as a supporting element of a product, typically not sold stand-alone externally. Positions in this function play a critical role in ability to deliver products to market and/or manage internal business functions. Capability management requires alignment to business and/or product strategy, effective design and development, and ongoing management of capability portfolio across the full lifecycle to ensure business-specific or cross-enterprise impact. Market insights are leveraged to monitor trends and external landscape, and to inform capability strategies and customer use case scenarios. Positions in this function are accountable for delivering sustainable, financially sound solutions that solve a specific problem and enable successful external product delivery and/or internal business function performance, while driving adoption with internal business clients and define future capability direction that supports business strategy and new opportunities.

• Generally work is self-directed and not prescribed
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a resource to others

You\xe2\x80\x99ll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor\'s degree in Business, Management, Finance, Accounting, Health Administration, or related field
• 3+ years experience in Agile Project Management
• 2+ years experience working with financial systems
• 1+ years experience leading a scrum team
• Advance level of proficiency with PC based software programs such as Microsoft Project, Visio, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Track record of delivering high quality results

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous Healthcare Industry experience
• Previous experience with Aha! or RALLY tools
• Experience with Accounting
• SQL skills
• Proven excellent analytical skills and demonstrated ability to automate processes
• Demonstrates critical thinking and intellectual curiosity with the ability resolve issues/questions
• Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication skills with attention to detail and an ability to communicate with senior management
• Demonstrated ability to internalize, interpret and document complex scenarios clearly and concisely

Careers with UnitedHealthcare. Work with a Fortune 5 organization that\xe2\x80\x99s serving millions of people as we transform health care with bold ideas. Bring your energy for driving change for the better. Help us improve health access and outcomes for everyone, as we work to advance health equity, connecting people with the care they need to feel their best. As an industry leader, our commitment to improving lives is second to none.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island or Washington residents is $85,000 to $167,300. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you\xe2\x80\x99ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group\xe2\x80\x99s Telecommuter Policy

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/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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