Senior Financial Consultant - Eden Praire, MN preferred, Remote considered

Primary Responsibilities

• Establish and govern the Cost Management Program for UHG Corporate Services.
• Serve as the single source of truth for intake, review, financial modeling, approval, and reporting of all cost management activities; ensuring appropriate scope, definition, and data integrity throughout.
• Partner with stakeholders to solve any gaps in performance targets.
• Lead small-to-medium, cross-functional projects that will establish financial programs to consolidate and promote cost reduction activities.
• Support the following teams by gathering inputs and assessing financial benefits: Real Estate Strategy and Transaction Management, Finance, Procurement, Legal.
• Thought partner to the teams above by establishing methods for substantiating and promoting value with an appropriate balance of effort.
• Governance for third-party cost management; reviews work and provides recommendations for improvement.
• Develop and maintain complex financial models (e.g., cash flow projections, discounted cash flow, IRR, etc.) to assess real estate transactions.
• Maintain ongoing performance of real estate assets against initial projections, updating models as necessary.
• Prepare investment memoranda and presentation materials summarizing model outputs and recommendations for internal and external stakeholders.
• Key resource for Corporate Services M&A to support due diligence efforts by integrating acquired entity data and market research into financial models.
• Traditional FP&A objectives in support of UHG Real Estate portfolio.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting, or equivalent field.
• 4+ years of finance and/or accounting experience.
• 1+ years of leading cross-functional projects to implement finance programs.
• Intermediate or higher experience in Excel.
• Traditional corporate finance experience involving large-scale forecasts, month-end review, P&L analysis & commentary, communicating results to customers and/or leadership, etc.
• Demonstrated experience: Analytical thinking with attention to detail and accuracy in model construction, effective communication skills to present complex financial information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, leading cross-functional projects to implement finance programs, serving as a process owner and key finance resource within a highly matrixed organization; maintaining relationships with key business partners, managing a suite of reporting & analysis in which there was accountability for quality and consistency of narrative across, potentially, disparate products.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting a real estate and/or procurement organization.
• Experience in CoStar, Essbase, PeopleSoft.
• Traditional project management experience.
• Supporting cost reduction activities on behalf of an organization.
• Proven connecting the needs of internal, business customers to the delivery by operational owners.
• Proven collaborating with operational owners to identify and communicate financial modeling; with preference given to collaboration in which there was influence without authority.