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The SCA Payroll Compliance Analyst is responsible for administrative work associated with ensuring Optum complies with the McNamara O’Hara Service Contract Act and assists the businesses that have been awarded contracts with SCA provisions.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Ensure payroll processing and SCA administration, audit, issue research and resolution is completed accurately and timely

• Identify SCA employee coverages and exemptions

• Provide SCA subject matter expertise with contract renewals, modifications, price-adjustments, solicitations, and re-solicitations

• Map SCA employees accurately to corresponding labor codes in the DOL’s SCA Directory of Operations

• Ensure SCA employees are paid according to correct wage determinations (WD); collaborate with Contracts on necessary conformances absent WDs and/or labor codes

• Make necessary payroll adjustments to account for annual updates to the Federal Contracts Minimum Wage

• Be the SCA employee’s point of contact to address any questions relating to SCA, to include benefits, pay, PTO, fringe, etc

• Ensure regulatory required wage information is posted prominently for SCA employees (electronically for full-time telecommuters and physically for hybrid and full-time employees)

• Assist with implementation, improvements, or changes of procedures and/or systems to increase efficiency and improve the existing SCA payroll processes

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:

• 2+ years of experience working in government, legal, health care, managed care, and/or health insurance

• 2+ years of experience in payroll experience to include a level of proficiency with SQL (novice) and with Microsoft Excel (intermediate), including formulas such as VLOOKUP, pivot tables, etc. (Macros a plus)

• Proven solid analytical and critical thinking skills

• Demonstrated ability to work in a challenging environment and manage multiple tasks with hard deadlines simultaneously

• Proven excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Experience with project documentation discipline

• Proven solid understanding of how to build efficient processes

• Proven experience communicating complex information via phone conversations and emails to non-technical clients, external customers, internal customers, and executives

• Proven experience working independently with minimal direction

• Intermediate or better proficiency with MS Word, MS Excel, and MS Outlook

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience working in government, legal, health care, managed care, and/or health insurance

• 4+ years of experience in Payroll

• 1 + year of experience with Service Contract Act

• 1+ year of Developer experience with Power BI

• Proven experience with Deltek Costpoint, SQL, and Macros

• Proven experience with government contracting accounting

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

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Washington, Washington, D.C. Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $58,300 to $114,300 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. 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.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

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