Compliance Consultant - Remote

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This role helps strengthen an effective, practical, and business-aligned Compliance Program across its three pillars:
Prevention, Detection, and Correction. The consultant partners with business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders to translate federal requirements and contractual obligations into sustainable controls, identify and assess compliance risk, and help drive timely corrective action.

As a Compliance Consultant, you will serve as a trusted compliance partner supporting Optum Serve businesses that perform work for U.S. Government customers. You will monitor regulatory and contractual developments, advise stakeholders on compliance expectations, support risk-based monitoring and auditing, and help the organization resolve identified issues. The role requires sound judgment, strong collaboration, clear communication, and the ability to move complex work from analysis through execution.

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

For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

• Prevention:
  Build awareness and reduce compliance risk
  • Interpret and help operationalize applicable laws, regulations, federal acquisition requirements, contractual clauses, policies, and customer obligations in partnership with Legal, Contracts, Security, Human Resources, Operations, and other stakeholders
  • Develop, implement, and maintain compliance policies, procedures, standards, playbooks, and other guidance that support consistent execution across the business
  • Identify compliance stakeholders, process owners, and governance forums needed to implement and sustain effective compliance controls
  • Develop and deliver role-based compliance training and communications for employees, leaders, vendors, and other relevant audiences; assess understanding and support completion of required training
  • Provide practical compliance consultation during business initiatives, process changes, customer engagements, and control design to help address risk before issues occur
  • Monitor changes in the regulatory, enforcement, and federal contracting environment; evaluate potential business impact and communicate emerging requirements and risks
  • Promote a culture of integrity, accountability, and open communication by building trusted relationships and making compliance requirements understandable and actionable
• Detection:
  Monitor, assess, and surface potential issues
  • Plan and perform risk-based compliance monitoring, testing, reviews, and audits to evaluate adherence to legal, regulatory, contractual, and internal requirements
  • Gather, validate, and analyze data from relevant systems and business processes to identify control gaps, exceptions, patterns, trends, and emerging compliance risks
  • Develop and maintain compliance assessments, work papers, scorecards, dashboards, key compliance indicators, and reports that provide clear, evidence-based insight into program effectiveness
  • Support regulatory, contractual, customer, and internal audits by coordinating information, assessing evidence, tracking requests, and helping ensure accurate and timely responses
  • Evaluate reported concerns and potential compliance issues, engage appropriate stakeholders, and support escalation in accordance with established processes
  • Communicate monitoring and audit results to business owners and leaders, clearly explaining the requirement, evidence reviewed, risk, and recommended actions
• Correction:
  Resolve issues and strengthen controls
  • Partner with business and functional owners to assess identified compliance issues, determine scope and impact, and conduct or facilitate root-cause analysis
  • Develop, document, and coordinate corrective action plans that include clear actions, accountable owners, milestones, due dates, evidence requirements, and escalation paths
  • Track corrective actions through closure, challenge incomplete or unsupported remediation, and verify that required evidence demonstrates implementation
  • Perform or coordinate sustainability and effectiveness reviews to determine whether corrective actions are…