[ 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.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Bring traditional actuarial skills to provider organizations as the health care market continues to evolve, including:
• Assisting in developing innovative strategies, value-based contracts and innovative risk-based arrangements
• Conducting and documenting complex analysis and research
• Preparing, forecasting, and analyzing trends
• Initiating, compiling and preparing analytical models, tools and databases
• Providing detailed summaries, reports, and recommendations to assist in client decision making and strategic direction
• Other responsibilities may include expense cost projections, claim reserve cost estimates and compiling various financial reports
• Potential areas of focus may include but are not limited to: Healthcare Economics, benchmarking analysis, value-based contract feasibility analysis, and population health analytics
• Develop professionally within an actuarial team, while collaborating with other clinicians, business analysts, and strategy consultants

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:

• Bachelor's degree or 4+ years equivalent experience working in the actuary field
• 3+ years of Actuarial/Analytical/Data Science experience
• Experience working with and developing raw claims files
• Advanced level of proficiency using SQL and/or SAS
• Proven expertise working with formulas, calculations, charts, graphs in MS Excel
• Intellectual curiosity and drive to serve clients

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in performing regression analyses
• Experience in large file transfers and/or manipulations
• Experience in handling various file formats (JSON, csv, xls, delimited text files)
• Experience and/or exposure in dealing with health care claims experience (i.e. understanding of costs, expected claims, diagnosis codes, procedure codes)
• Experience in applying optimization procedures (gradient, genetic, ant colony) to a large data set
• Experience and/or exposure to predictive modeling, clustering, etc.
• Candidates on the Actuarial exam track, with a minimum of 2 exams passed

Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, 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'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's 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. ]