Senior Revenue Data & Analytics Specialist - Remote

Data Engineering, Financial Analysis, And Business Analytics Role

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

This role blends data engineering, financial analysis, and business analytics. You will maintain critical data pipelines, manage large datasets, lead recurring revenue forecasting, and support cross functional teams through dashboards, reporting, and ad hoc analysis. Strong SQL/ETL and Excel skills, and financial acumen are essential.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within Canada as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Revenue Forecasting & Analytics
  • Lead recurring revenue forecasting across all Enterprise Imaging business units for hundreds of customers
  • Analyze attrition, maintenance compression, and client level impacts
  • Validate SAP revenue data and perform Actuals vs. Forecast variance analysis
  • Assess and escalate revenue risks; support EOL forecasting
  • Incorporate special revenue recognition rules into forecast models
• Data Flow & Quality Management
  • Monitor data from Salesforce, SAP, Smartsheet, and internal systems
  • Reconcile multiple risk sources (Qualtrics, Salesforce, email)
  • Track labor hour data and identify inconsistencies impacting forecasts
  • Ensure alignment and integrity across all forecasting related systems
• Data Engineering & ETL
  • Build and maintain SQL jobs, ETL processes, and large scale data pipelines
  • Support and troubleshoot Python scripts for automation and data processing
  • Improve data structures, transformations, and quality (duplicates, nulls, outliers)
• Analytics & Visualization
  • Build and maintain Power BI dashboards; support migration from Spotfire
  • Deliver dashboards and reports end to end, including data modeling
  • Handle ad hoc requests: dashboards, data mining, reporting, executive summaries
• Business Partnering
  • Collaborate with Finance, Sales, Revenue Accounting, Contracts, and Operations
  • Document data logic, sources, and metric definitions
  • Present insights and explain complex concepts to technical and non technical audiences

You'll 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:

• Advanced SQL; enterprise level dashboarding experience
• Experience with Salesforce, SAP, and large datasets
• Experience with visual analytics (PowerBI dashboards development and maintenance)
• Intermediate Excel skills (experience with VLOOKUP, pivot tables, INDEX, and Power Query)
• Experience with financial analysis and business metrics: forecasting, variance, risk assessment
• Python for ETL/automation (pandas preferred)
• ETL pipeline creation and maintenance
• Proven ability to diagnose system discrepancies, treat and reconcile data
• Proven ability to manage competing deadlines
• Proven curiosity, attention to detail, and strong documentation habits
• Proven good communication and comfortable presenting to small groups (~10 people)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Revenue recognition or financial modeling experience
• API integration experience
• Proven R or additional analytics tools; healthcare/finance/tech industry exposure
• Proven predictive modeling, regression, or basic machine learning

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Canada Residents Only: The salary range for Canada residents is $82,700 to $171,900 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

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.