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The Deputy Chief Risk & Compliance Officer serves as the senior operating and governance leader for the Office of Compliance and Risk Management, translating the EVP-Chief Risk/Compliance Officer’s strategic direction into coordinated execution across Corporate Compliance, Privacy and Health Information Governance, and Enterprise Risk Management.
The position supervises designated functional leaders, integrates cross-functional priorities, chairs assigned governance committees, resolves routine and complex operational matters, and ensures significant risks and decisions are elevated to the EVP in a timely, concise, and decision-ready manner.
This is a full-time hybrid opportunity. The successful candidate will report onsite to the Alliance Home Office (Morrisville, NC) 1-2 days per week.
Responsibilities & Duties
Division Operations and Strategic Execution
- Translate the EVP-Chief Risk/Compliance Officer’s strategic direction into coordinated divisional priorities, annual goals, work plans, performance measures, and operating expectations across Corporate Compliance, Privacy and Health Information Governance, and Enterprise Risk Management
- Monitor execution of approved priorities and evaluate program performance, capacity, resource needs, and emerging barriers
- Integrate activities across functions to reduce duplication, close gaps, strengthen accountability, and support consistent second-line oversight
- Provide concise, exception-based reporting to the EVP regarding material issues, decisions, trends, and matters requiring executive action
Leadership, Supervision, and Talent Development
- Directly supervise and develop the Senior Director-Corporate Compliance, Director-HIPAA Compliance/Privacy Officer, Risk Manager, and other assigned leaders
- Set clear performance expectations, provide coaching and feedback, conduct performance management, support succession planning, and promote professional growth
- Build a collaborative leadership environment that preserves functional expertise and appropriate independence while strengthening coordination across teams
- Partner with Human Resources and the EVP on recruitment, retention, organizational design, leadership development, and resolution of significant personnel matters
Cross-Functional Governance and Committee Leadership
- Chair the Delegation and Accreditation Oversight Committee and, following an approved transition, the AI Governance Committee
- Ensure committee agendas, materials, decision frameworks, minutes, action tracking, and escalation processes support effective and defensible governance
- Provide executive-level coordination and oversight support for assigned committees, including the Compliance Committee, while preserving the EVP’s role as executive sponsor and ensuring significant matters are elevated appropriately
- Maintain separation between leaders responsible for day-to-day program operations and governance bodies responsible for review, challenge, decisions, and escalation
Compliance, Privacy, and Risk Program Oversight
- Provide integrated management oversight of Corporate Compliance, Privacy/HIPAA, and Enterprise Risk Management while preserving each function’s subject-matter authority and direct-access safeguards
- Review program performance, significant investigations or incidents, regulatory and contractual developments, corrective actions, work-plan progress, and risk trends
- Ensure policies, procedures, monitoring, education, reporting, and corrective-action processes are coordinated and support organizational accountability
- Confirm that material compliance, privacy, ethics, and enterprise-risk matters are promptly assessed and escalated to the EVP as required
Issue Resolution, Escalation, and Executive Decision Support
- Resolve routine and complex cross-functional matters within delegated authority and remove barriers that affect division performance
- Establish and administer escalation criteria identifying matters reserved to the EVP, Chief Audit Executive, CEO, Executive Team, or Board
- For material matters, coordinate fact development, risk analysis, stakeholder input, options, and recommendations so the EVP receives decision-ready information
- Maintain open escalation pathways for significant ethical, privacy, compliance, risk, retaliation, independence-sensitive, or organizational concerns, including matters involving the Deputy
Executive, Board, and External Readiness
- Coordinate preparation of integrated reports, dashboards, presentations, briefing materials, and follow-up items for the EVP, CEO, Executive Team, and Board Audit & Compliance Committee
- Support the EVP’s role as staff liaison to the Board Audit & Compliance Committee while ensuring functional leaders are prepared to present matters within their areas of responsibility
- Coordinate responses and readiness activities for significant regulatory, contractual, accreditation, audit, consultant, and other external reviews involving assigned functions
- Represent the EVP or Office of Compliance and Risk Management in internal or external forums when delegated
Continuous Improvement and Organizational Partnership
- Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of division governance, reporting, meeting structures, workflows, and coordination practices
- Partner with Program Integrity, Internal Audit, Legal, Quality, Information Security, Information Technology, Human Resources, Vendor Relations, clinical leadership, and operational departments to address cross-functional risks and improve organizational controls
- Promote risk-informed decision-making, ethical conduct, transparency, learning, and practical compliance solutions throughout the organization
- Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce administrative burden, strengthen data and dashboard use, and improve responsiveness to emerging risks
Minimum Requirements
Education & Experience
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Administration, Law, Compliance, Risk Management, or a related field, from an accredited college/university, and a minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in healthcare compliance, privacy, enterprise risk management, internal audit, program integrity, regulatory affairs, governance, or another related second-line or oversight function.
Experience must include at least five (5) years in a management or senior leadership role with responsibility for leading professional staff, managing complex cross-functional initiatives, and advising executive leadership.
Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP), Associate in Risk Management (ARM), RIMS Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP), or comparable compliance, risk, privacy, or governance certification, required
Demonstrated experience in a highly regulated environment and experience integrating multiple compliance, privacy, risk, audit, legal, or governance disciplines are required.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Administration, Law, Compliance, Risk Management, or a related field from an accredited college/university or Juris Doctor.
- Experience in Medicaid managed care, health plans, government-sponsored healthcare, or a comparable regulated healthcare environment (is preferred).
- Experience supporting cross-functional governance and oversight committees, developing governance frameworks, leading organizational change, and presenting complex risk and compliance matters to executive leadership or a governing board (is preferred).
- Additional relevant professional certifications are preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Expert knowledge of healthcare compliance program requirements, ethics and compliance principles, and regulatory governance
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise risk management, privacy/HIPAA, internal controls, auditing/monitoring, investigations, and corrective-action principles
- Ability to integrate multiple oversight functions, identify interdependencies, and translate strategy into coordinated execution
- Executive judgment and ability to distinguish routine matters from material issues requiring CEO, Executive Team, Board, or regulatory escalation
- Leadership, supervision, coaching, succession planning, conflict resolution, and organizational change management
- Ability to communicate complex, sensitive, or controversial information clearly to executives, Board members, regulators, providers, vendors, and staff
- Committee governance, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and decision-rights design
- Analytical skills, risk-based decision-making, dashboard/report interpretation, and preparation of concise executive recommendations
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and reporting or visualization tools
Salary Range
$161,372 - $201,715/ Annual
Exact compensation will be determined based on the candidate's education, experience, external market data and consideration of internal equity
An excellent fringe benefit package accompanies the salary, which includes:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Long Term Disability
- Generous retirement savings plan
- Flexible work schedules including hybrid/remote options
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, holiday, management leave
- Dress flexibility
Employment for this position is contingent upon a satisfactory background check and credit check, which will be performed after acceptance of an offer of employment and prior to the employee's start date.
Education
Required- Bachelors or better in Health Administration
- Bachelors or better in Business Administration
- Bachelors or better in Public Administration
- Bachelors or better in Law (MBA)
- Bachelors or better in Compliance
- Bachelors or better in Risk Management and Insurance
Licenses & Certifications
Required- Cert-Healthcare Complianc
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
The Deputy Chief Risk & Compliance Officer serves as the senior operating and governance leader for the Office of Compliance and Risk Management, translating the EVP-Chief Risk/Compliance Officer’s strategic direction into coordinated execution across Corporate Compliance, Privacy and Health Information Governance, and Enterprise Risk Management.
The position supervises designated functional leaders, integrates cross-functional priorities, chairs assigned governance committees, resolves routine and complex operational matters, and ensures significant risks and decisions are elevated to the EVP in a timely, concise, and decision-ready manner.
This is a full-time hybrid opportunity. The successful candidate will report onsite to the Alliance Home Office (Morrisville, NC) 1-2 days per week.
Responsibilities & Duties
Division Operations and Strategic Execution
- Translate the EVP-Chief Risk/Compliance Officer’s strategic direction into coordinated divisional priorities, annual goals, work plans, performance measures, and operating expectations across Corporate Compliance, Privacy and Health Information Governance, and Enterprise Risk Management
- Monitor execution of approved priorities and evaluate program performance, capacity, resource needs, and emerging barriers
- Integrate activities across functions to reduce duplication, close gaps, strengthen accountability, and support consistent second-line oversight
- Provide concise, exception-based reporting to the EVP regarding material issues, decisions, trends, and matters requiring executive action
Leadership, Supervision, and Talent Development
- Directly supervise and develop the Senior Director-Corporate Compliance, Director-HIPAA Compliance/Privacy Officer, Risk Manager, and other assigned leaders
- Set clear performance expectations, provide coaching and feedback, conduct performance management, support succession planning, and promote professional growth
- Build a collaborative leadership environment that preserves functional expertise and appropriate independence while strengthening coordination across teams
- Partner with Human Resources and the EVP on recruitment, retention, organizational design, leadership development, and resolution of significant personnel matters
Cross-Functional Governance and Committee Leadership
- Chair the Delegation and Accreditation Oversight Committee and, following an approved transition, the AI Governance Committee
- Ensure committee agendas, materials, decision frameworks, minutes, action tracking, and escalation processes support effective and defensible governance
- Provide executive-level coordination and oversight support for assigned committees, including the Compliance Committee, while preserving the EVP’s role as executive sponsor and ensuring significant matters are elevated appropriately
- Maintain separation between leaders responsible for day-to-day program operations and governance bodies responsible for review, challenge, decisions, and escalation
Compliance, Privacy, and Risk Program Oversight
- Provide integrated management oversight of Corporate Compliance, Privacy/HIPAA, and Enterprise Risk Management while preserving each function’s subject-matter authority and direct-access safeguards
- Review program performance, significant investigations or incidents, regulatory and contractual developments, corrective actions, work-plan progress, and risk trends
- Ensure policies, procedures, monitoring, education, reporting, and corrective-action processes are coordinated and support organizational accountability
- Confirm that material compliance, privacy, ethics, and enterprise-risk matters are promptly assessed and escalated to the EVP as required
Issue Resolution, Escalation, and Executive Decision Support
- Resolve routine and complex cross-functional matters within delegated authority and remove barriers that affect division performance
- Establish and administer escalation criteria identifying matters reserved to the EVP, Chief Audit Executive, CEO, Executive Team, or Board
- For material matters, coordinate fact development, risk analysis, stakeholder input, options, and recommendations so the EVP receives decision-ready information
- Maintain open escalation pathways for significant ethical, privacy, compliance, risk, retaliation, independence-sensitive, or organizational concerns, including matters involving the Deputy
Executive, Board, and External Readiness
- Coordinate preparation of integrated reports, dashboards, presentations, briefing materials, and follow-up items for the EVP, CEO, Executive Team, and Board Audit & Compliance Committee
- Support the EVP’s role as staff liaison to the Board Audit & Compliance Committee while ensuring functional leaders are prepared to present matters within their areas of responsibility
- Coordinate responses and readiness activities for significant regulatory, contractual, accreditation, audit, consultant, and other external reviews involving assigned functions
- Represent the EVP or Office of Compliance and Risk Management in internal or external forums when delegated
Continuous Improvement and Organizational Partnership
- Evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of division governance, reporting, meeting structures, workflows, and coordination practices
- Partner with Program Integrity, Internal Audit, Legal, Quality, Information Security, Information Technology, Human Resources, Vendor Relations, clinical leadership, and operational departments to address cross-functional risks and improve organizational controls
- Promote risk-informed decision-making, ethical conduct, transparency, learning, and practical compliance solutions throughout the organization
- Identify opportunities to simplify processes, reduce administrative burden, strengthen data and dashboard use, and improve responsiveness to emerging risks
Minimum Requirements
Education & Experience
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Administration, Law, Compliance, Risk Management, or a related field, from an accredited college/university, and a minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in healthcare compliance, privacy, enterprise risk management, internal audit, program integrity, regulatory affairs, governance, or another related second-line or oversight function.
Experience must include at least five (5) years in a management or senior leadership role with responsibility for leading professional staff, managing complex cross-functional initiatives, and advising executive leadership.
Certified in Healthcare Compliance (CHC), Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP), Associate in Risk Management (ARM), RIMS Certified Risk Management Professional (RIMS-CRMP), or comparable compliance, risk, privacy, or governance certification, required
Demonstrated experience in a highly regulated environment and experience integrating multiple compliance, privacy, risk, audit, legal, or governance disciplines are required.
Preferred:
- Master’s degree in Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, Public Administration, Law, Compliance, Risk Management, or a related field from an accredited college/university or Juris Doctor.
- Experience in Medicaid managed care, health plans, government-sponsored healthcare, or a comparable regulated healthcare environment (is preferred).
- Experience supporting cross-functional governance and oversight committees, developing governance frameworks, leading organizational change, and presenting complex risk and compliance matters to executive leadership or a governing board (is preferred).
- Additional relevant professional certifications are preferred.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Expert knowledge of healthcare compliance program requirements, ethics and compliance principles, and regulatory governance
- Advanced knowledge of enterprise risk management, privacy/HIPAA, internal controls, auditing/monitoring, investigations, and corrective-action principles
- Ability to integrate multiple oversight functions, identify interdependencies, and translate strategy into coordinated execution
- Executive judgment and ability to distinguish routine matters from material issues requiring CEO, Executive Team, Board, or regulatory escalation
- Leadership, supervision, coaching, succession planning, conflict resolution, and organizational change management
- Ability to communicate complex, sensitive, or controversial information clearly to executives, Board members, regulators, providers, vendors, and staff
- Committee governance, facilitation, negotiation, consensus building, and decision-rights design
- Analytical skills, risk-based decision-making, dashboard/report interpretation, and preparation of concise executive recommendations
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and reporting or visualization tools
Salary Range
$161,372 - $201,715/ Annual
Exact compensation will be determined based on the candidate's education, experience, external market data and consideration of internal equity
An excellent fringe benefit package accompanies the salary, which includes:
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Long Term Disability
- Generous retirement savings plan
- Flexible work schedules including hybrid/remote options
- Paid time off including vacation, sick leave, holiday, management leave
- Dress flexibility
Employment for this position is contingent upon a satisfactory background check and credit check, which will be performed after acceptance of an offer of employment and prior to the employee's start date.
Education
Required- Bachelors or better in Health Administration
- Bachelors or better in Business Administration
- Bachelors or better in Public Administration
- Bachelors or better in Law (MBA)
- Bachelors or better in Compliance
- Bachelors or better in Risk Management and Insurance
Licenses & Certifications
Required- Cert-Healthcare Complianc
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights (https://www.eeoc.gov/poster) notice from the Department of Labor.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Banking & Financial Services
- Fintech
- Investment & Asset Management
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in risk and compliance officer jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, law, business, or a related field
- Experience with regulatory frameworks such as SOX, BSA, HIPAA, or FINRA rules
- Familiarity with risk assessment methodologies and internal control testing
- Certifications such as CRCM, CAMS, CFE, or CIA are frequently preferred
- Proficiency with governance, risk, and compliance platforms or ATS systems
- Strong written communication skills for policy drafting and regulatory reporting
Tips for Your Risk and Compliance Officer Job Search
Tailor your resume to each regulatory framework
Risk and compliance officers are often hired to cover a specific framework, SOX, HIPAA, BSA, or FINRA. Pull the exact regulatory acronyms from each job posting and mirror them in your resume's experience bullets so your background maps directly to the role.
List your certifications above the fold
Credentials like CRCM, CAMS, CFE, or CIA are eliminators in this field. Put them in a dedicated certifications section near the top of your resume, not buried in education, so hiring managers spot them in the first scan.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists risk and compliance officer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings by industry vertical, not just title
A risk and compliance officer role at a community bank and one at a pharma company require different expertise. Search by industry alongside your title so you're applying to roles where your specific regulatory knowledge is the exact match, not a stretch.
Prepare a case-based answer for every stage interview
Compliance interviews almost always include a scenario question, a policy gap you discovered, a business unit that pushed back on a control, or a regulatory exam you helped manage. Prepare two or three concrete examples with outcomes before your first round.
Negotiate scope and reporting line, not just pay
In compliance roles, who you report to, the board, the CFO, or a business unit head, shapes your authority significantly. Before accepting an offer, ask how the function is structured and whether the CCO has a direct line to the audit committee.
Risk and Compliance Officer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most risk and compliance officers?
The companies hiring the most risk and compliance officers right now include First Horizon Bank, JPMorganChase, and Natixis, with the largest share of openings in New York, Florida, and Missouri, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Financial services, healthcare systems, and insurance carriers consistently drive the highest volume of postings.
How many risk and compliance officer jobs are remote?
About 50% of risk and compliance officer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting broader flexibility in white-collar professional roles. Sub-areas like third-party risk management, policy writing, and regulatory monitoring tend to be the most remote-friendly, while roles that require on-site audits, branch oversight, or in-person regulatory exams are more likely to require a physical presence.
How do you become a risk and compliance officer?
Most risk and compliance officers start with a degree in finance, business, law, or accounting, then gain experience in audit, legal, or operations roles where they handle regulatory requirements directly. Earning a recognized certification such as CAMS, CFE, or CRCM strengthens your candidacy. Moving into a formal compliance title typically happens after two to four years in an adjacent role where you can point to concrete regulatory or risk work.
Can you get a risk and compliance officer job with little experience?
Entry-level risk and compliance roles do exist, often titled compliance analyst, risk analyst, or regulatory affairs coordinator, and they typically require a relevant degree plus internship or rotational experience rather than years in a formal compliance function. Candidates who can demonstrate familiarity with a specific framework, even from coursework, a certification program, or a semester in a heavily regulated industry, stand out from general applicants with no domain knowledge.
What does the risk and compliance officer interview process look like?
Most risk and compliance officer interviews run across multiple rounds, starting with a recruiter screen focused on your regulatory background and certifications, followed by a hiring manager interview that probes how you've handled specific compliance scenarios. Later rounds often include a panel with legal, finance, or internal audit stakeholders and may involve a written exercise such as drafting a policy memo or assessing a hypothetical control gap. References and a background check typically close out the process.
Where can I find and apply to risk and compliance officer jobs?
You can find and apply to risk and compliance officer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your regulatory background and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing that fits. The board pulls in postings from financial services, healthcare, insurance, fintech, and other regulated industries so you can compare openings in one place.
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