Job Description

Begin your career at UnitedHealth Group and you'll get an opportunity to do something extraordinary with your first job out of school: make a real difference. We have modest goals: Help 75 million people live healthier lives. Change the landscape of health care forever. Leave the world a better place than we found it. Such aspirations attract a certain type of person. Crazy talented. Brilliant. Compassionate. Driven. You'll find these people everywhere you turn here. You'll also find a world of career options fueled by your performance and limited only by imagination. Start here. And start doing your life's best work.(sm)

**Housing assistance is not available**

**This full-time summer intern position will be available starting June 2021**

**UnitedHealth Group is not able to offer visa sponsorship now or in the future for this position**

Primary Responsibilities:

* Gain real-world experience by working on actual internal audits

* Receive formal training on how to plan and execute operational audits, including performing risk assessments, documenting business processes, risks, internal controls, and developing audit testing procedures

* Perform audit assignments, such as participating in process and internal control walkthroughs, preparing audit narratives/flow charts, performing audit testing procedures, identifying internal control gaps, and summarizing audit testing results

* Learn excellent project management skills to allow multiple projects to run concurrently and ensure timely completion

* Build strong relationships with all levels of management and senior leaders, including presenting audit status, issues identified, recommendations, and corrective/preventative actions performed by management

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:

* Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree with a major in Healthcare Administration from an accredited college / university during the duration of the internship. Internships are not intended for graduating seniors

* Anticipated graduation date of 2022 or December 2021

* 3.0 GPA or higher

* Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including using MS Excel pivot tables, sorting, filtering, and formulas

* Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship, now or in the future, for employment-based work authorization (F-1 students with practical training and candidates requiring H-1Bs, TNs, etc. will not be considered)

* You will be asked to perform this role in an office setting or other company location, however, may be required to work from home temporarily due to space limitations

* Employees are required to screen for symptoms using the ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved symptom screener prior to entering the work site each day, in order to keep our work sites safe. Employees must comply with any state and local masking orders. In addition, when in a UnitedHealth Group building, employees are expected to wear a mask in areas where physical distancing cannot be attained

Preferred Qualifications:

* Sound critical thinking and analytical skills

* Sound oral and written communication skills, including presentation experience

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

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.

Keywords: internal audit, analysis, analyst, intern, internship, Irvine, CA, California