The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  UnitedHealth Group is hiring a Financial Planning Manager in Joplin, MO.

• Role description

  The spreadsheets at UnitedHealth Group are large, the stakes are real, and the Financial Planning Manager chair has been empty too long. Plainly put, UnitedHealth Group wants 7 years of Journal Entries, will pay $96,000 - $136,000, and expects you to own the result.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Track grant funding, restricted accounts, and compliance reporting
  • Walk auditors through documentation so clean it answers itself
  • Sit with sales on deal structure before the goal-oriented contract is signed
  • Own the tax provision and the footnotes that explain it
  • Translate the finance cost structure into a pricing floor leadership trusts
  • Build the close documentation a new manager hire could follow blind
  • Own the full-cycle accounts payable and receivable process
  • Pair KPI Reporting forecasting with a feedback-driven review of the downside case

  What You'll Bring

  • A communication style that translates jargon back into plain English
  • Proven aptitude for Audit Sampling, ideally near Joplin, MO
  • Hands-on Audit Sampling experience that survives a whiteboard interview
  • Practical Audit Sampling skills sharpened in a temporary setting
  • Working knowledge of Problem Solving alongside transferable Journal Entries chops

  Our team at UnitedHealth Group is ruthlessly-focused, collaborative, and proud to call Joplin, MO home. At UnitedHealth Group feedback has a short half-life, delivered close to the moment it can still help.

  Earn a $96,000 - $136,000 base while a mentor accelerates your jump from manager to lead, with benefits and flexibility along for the ride.

  Demand on the finance team has us moving fast to fill this seat.

  Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

• Required skills

  • Power BI
  • Audit Sampling
  • Journal Entries
  • Due Diligence
  • KPI Reporting
  • Problem Solving
  • Communication

• Benefits & perks

  • Assistive technology support
  • Compressed work week option
  • Remote Work
  • Partner Discounts
  • Casual dress code
  • International assignment opportunities
  • Flat organizational structure
  • Nap Pods
  • Sabbatical Leave

• Apply before 2026-12-26

  Submit your application for this Temporary finance position.