Risk Compliance Analyst Jobs in California
Risk Compliance Analyst jobs in California are among the most active in the country, concentrated in financial services, fintech, healthcare, and technology, with openings at every level from entry-level to senior. Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego drive the most hiring, with established employers such as Wells Fargo, Kaiser Permanente, and Pacific Premier Bancorp maintaining consistent demand. The most in-demand specialties are financial crimes compliance, regulatory risk, and healthcare compliance. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Requisition ID # 172735
Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance; Accounting / Finance; Business Operations / Strategy
Job Level: Manager/Principal
Business Unit: Strategy & Growth
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels C& Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch C& Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French C& Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Pleasanton; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramenti; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City
Department Overview:
The Electric Risk & Compliance organization provides governance, oversight, and strategic direction on risk and compliance matters across Electric Operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and external/internal regulatory requirements. It partners cross-functionally to manage compliance requirements, strengthen controls, and enable risk-based oversight through effective monitoring, data, and reporting. The Compliance Insights team provides strategic, comprehensive data analysis, reporting, and data-driven insights that support Electric compliance, investigations, and risk management.
The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory, and will be expected to work in the office 2-3 times a week.
PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.
A reasonable salary range is:
Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $140,000.00
Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $189,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $238,000.00
Minimum Base Salary (California) $133,000.00
Mid Base Salary (California) $180,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (California) $226,000.00
Responsibilities:
- Lead development of risk metrics and stress scenarios
- Lead development of commodity prices, derivatives and transactions as needed to analyze and quantify risks.
- Lead development of framework for implementing tools and processes to improve quality and timeliness of risk reports.
- Lead design of analytical and diagnostic tools to ensure accuracy and timely computation of risk metrics and facilitate analyses of portfolios.
- Lead assessment of the effectiveness of hedging strategies and programs.
- Lead development and enhancement of quantitative models to support forecasting, valuation, and portfolio risk assessment.
- Provide analytical support and quantitative risk assessments to inform business decisions and address emerging issues.
- Lead development of risk-informed compliance frameworks to align analytical insights with regulatory requirements and support effective governance and oversight.
- Lead horizon scanning activities to identify emerging risks, market developments, and regulatory changes that may affect portfolio strategy and risk exposure.
- Develops and leads compelling data-driven business cases for or against specific courses of action and potential risk mitigation alternatives as appropriate; provides strategic direction regarding areas of NERC compliance in common with CPUC, OEIS, and CAISO.
- Leads annual gap analysis; identifies gaps between compliance requirements and guidance documentation.
- Develops, monitors, analyzes, and reports on business KPIs and indicators, that may affect the Company’s ability to meet its goals.
Qualifications
Minimum:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Financial Engineering, Economics, Statistics, or Mathematics or equivalent experience
8 years of experience in risk analytics development and modeling
2 years managing projects
Desired:
Master’s degree or equivalent experience
Electrical engineer with experience in the utility industry to support technical interpretations and implementation of new compliance requirements.
Proven risk control and system design skills
Proven project management skills.
Demonstrated ability to abstract or synthesize from one set of ideas or facts to another, identify causal relationships, and anticipate obstacles.
Communicates with peers, subordinates, leadership, and stakeholders, using a variety of media and conveying information or conclusions in a clear, direct manner.
Ability to maneuver through complex organizational situations effectively and without disruption.
Understands and can communicate the company's overall goals and strategies.
Ability to analyze complex problems and make decisions despite incomplete information and limited time.
Highly advanced analytical, program management, and communications skills
Ability to manipulate data and draw conclusions / make recommendations
Requisition ID # 172735
Job Category: Compliance / Risk / Quality Assurance; Accounting / Finance; Business Operations / Strategy
Job Level: Manager/Principal
Business Unit: Strategy & Growth
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland; Alameda; Alta; American Canyon; Angels C& Antioch; Auberry; Auburn; Avenal; Avila Beach; Bakersfield; Balch C& Bay Point; Bear Valley; Belden; Bellota; Belmont; Benicia; Berkeley; Brentwood; Brisbane; Buellton; Burney; Buttonwillow; Calistoga; Campbell; Canyon Dam; Canyondam; Capitola; Caruthers; Chico; Clearlake; Clovis; Coalinga; Colusa; Concord; Concord; Corcoran; Cottonwood; Cupertino; Daly City; Danville; Davis; Dinuba; Downieville; Dublin; Emeryville; Eureka; Fairfield; Folsom; Fort Bragg; Fortuna; Fremont; French C& Fresno; Fresno; Fulton; Garberville; Geyserville; Gilroy; Goodyear; Grass Valley; Guerneville; Half Moon Bay; Hayward; Hinkley; Hollister; Holt; Huron; Jackson; Kerman; King City; Lakeport; Lemoore; Lincoln; Linden; Livermore; Lodi; Loomis; Los Banos; Lower Lake; Madera; Magalia; Manteca; Manton; Mariposa; Martell; Marysville; Maxwell; Menlo Park; Merced; Meridian; Millbrae; Milpitas; Modesto; Monterey; Montgomery Creek; Morgan Hill; Morro Bay; Moss Landing; Mountain View; Napa; Needles; Newark; Newman; Novato; Oakdale; Oakhurst; Oakley; Olema; Orinda; Orland; Oroville; Palo Alto; Palo Cedro; Paradise; Parkwood; Paso Robles; Petaluma; Pioneer; Pismo Beach; Pittsburg; Placerville; Pleasant Hill; Pleasanton; Point Arena; Potter Valley; Quincy; Rancho Cordova; Red Bluff; Redding; Richmond; Ridgecrest; Rio Vista; Rocklin; Roseville; Round Mountain; Sacramenti; Sacramento; Salida; Salinas; San Bruno; San Carlos; San Francisco; San Francisco; San Jose; San Luis Obispo; San Mateo; San Rafael; San Ramon; San Ramon; Sanger; Santa Cruz; Santa Maria; Santa Nella; Santa Rosa; Selma; Shaver Lake; Sonoma; Sonora; South San Francisco; Springville; Stockton; Storrie; Taft; Tracy; Turlock; Twain; Ukiah; Vacaville; Vallejo; Walnut Creek; Wasco; Watsonville; West Sacramento; Wheatland; Whitmore; Willits; Willow Creek; Willows; Windsor; Winters; Woodland; Yuba City
Department Overview:
The Electric Risk & Compliance organization provides governance, oversight, and strategic direction on risk and compliance matters across Electric Operations, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies and external/internal regulatory requirements. It partners cross-functionally to manage compliance requirements, strengthen controls, and enable risk-based oversight through effective monitoring, data, and reporting. The Compliance Insights team provides strategic, comprehensive data analysis, reporting, and data-driven insights that support Electric compliance, investigations, and risk management.
The selected candidate must live within PG&E’s service territory, and will be expected to work in the office 2-3 times a week.
PG&E is providing the salary range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual salary paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. Although we estimate the successful candidate hired into this role will be placed towards the middle or entry point of the range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis related to these factors.
A reasonable salary range is:
Minimum Base Salary (Bay Area) $140,000.00
Mid Base Salary (Bay Area) $189,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (Bay Area) $238,000.00
Minimum Base Salary (California) $133,000.00
Mid Base Salary (California) $180,000.00
Maximum Base Salary (California) $226,000.00
Responsibilities:
- Lead development of risk metrics and stress scenarios
- Lead development of commodity prices, derivatives and transactions as needed to analyze and quantify risks.
- Lead development of framework for implementing tools and processes to improve quality and timeliness of risk reports.
- Lead design of analytical and diagnostic tools to ensure accuracy and timely computation of risk metrics and facilitate analyses of portfolios.
- Lead assessment of the effectiveness of hedging strategies and programs.
- Lead development and enhancement of quantitative models to support forecasting, valuation, and portfolio risk assessment.
- Provide analytical support and quantitative risk assessments to inform business decisions and address emerging issues.
- Lead development of risk-informed compliance frameworks to align analytical insights with regulatory requirements and support effective governance and oversight.
- Lead horizon scanning activities to identify emerging risks, market developments, and regulatory changes that may affect portfolio strategy and risk exposure.
- Develops and leads compelling data-driven business cases for or against specific courses of action and potential risk mitigation alternatives as appropriate; provides strategic direction regarding areas of NERC compliance in common with CPUC, OEIS, and CAISO.
- Leads annual gap analysis; identifies gaps between compliance requirements and guidance documentation.
- Develops, monitors, analyzes, and reports on business KPIs and indicators, that may affect the Company’s ability to meet its goals.
Qualifications
Minimum:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Financial Engineering, Economics, Statistics, or Mathematics or equivalent experience
8 years of experience in risk analytics development and modeling
2 years managing projects
Desired:
Master’s degree or equivalent experience
Electrical engineer with experience in the utility industry to support technical interpretations and implementation of new compliance requirements.
Proven risk control and system design skills
Proven project management skills.
Demonstrated ability to abstract or synthesize from one set of ideas or facts to another, identify causal relationships, and anticipate obstacles.
Communicates with peers, subordinates, leadership, and stakeholders, using a variety of media and conveying information or conclusions in a clear, direct manner.
Ability to maneuver through complex organizational situations effectively and without disruption.
Understands and can communicate the company's overall goals and strategies.
Ability to analyze complex problems and make decisions despite incomplete information and limited time.
Highly advanced analytical, program management, and communications skills
Ability to manipulate data and draw conclusions / make recommendations
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Risk Compliance Analyst Job Market in California
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Who's Hiring
- TikTok9
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What California Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in risk compliance analyst jobs across California.
- Bachelor's degree in finance, business administration, law, or a related field
- One to five years of experience in compliance, risk management, or audit functions
- Familiarity with California-specific regulations including DFPI rules and CCPA requirements
- Professional certification such as CRCM, CCEP, or CFE preferred by most California employers
- Proficiency with GRC platforms, compliance monitoring tools, and risk assessment frameworks
- Strong written communication skills for drafting policies, audit findings, and regulatory reports
Risk Compliance Analyst Jobs in California: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a risk compliance analyst in California?
Most California employers require a bachelor's degree in business, finance, accounting, or a related discipline as the foundation for this role. California does not mandate a state-issued license for risk compliance analysts, but earning a recognized certification such as the Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager, Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional, or Certified Fraud Examiner strengthens candidacy significantly. Familiarity with California-specific frameworks, including DFPI oversight and the California Consumer Privacy Act, is a consistent differentiator when competing for roles in the state.
How much do risk compliance analysts make in California?
Risk compliance analysts in California earn a median of about $96,980 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $57,530 for the lowest 10% to over $158,280 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire risk compliance analysts in California?
Employers hiring risk compliance analysts in California right now include TikTok, Intuit, and City National Bank, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. California's dense concentration of regional banks, health systems, and technology companies means hiring is spread across multiple industries rather than limited to traditional financial services firms.
Which California cities have the most risk compliance analyst jobs?
San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Jose are the California cities with the most risk compliance analyst openings. Los Angeles attracts heavy demand from its large banking and entertainment finance sector, San Francisco from its concentration of fintech and venture-backed financial firms, and San Diego from its growing life sciences and healthcare compliance market, with regional bank headquarters adding consistent volume across all three metros.
Are there remote risk compliance analyst jobs in California?
Yes, and more than many fields, since risk compliance analyst work is primarily desk-based, document-driven, and executable without a fixed physical location. About 31% of risk compliance analyst openings tied to California are remote or hybrid as of June 2026, reflecting a broad shift toward flexible arrangements across financial services and technology. Policy review, regulatory monitoring, and audit reporting are the functions most commonly performed fully remote, while roles with direct examiner interaction or on-site auditing tend to require a physical presence.
How can I get hired as a risk compliance analyst in California with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a lateral move from an adjacent role such as internal audit associate, bank operations specialist, or legal administrative coordinator at a California financial institution or health system. Large California employers including Bank of the West, Dignity Health, and regional credit unions run compliance associate and analyst development programs aimed at candidates without direct compliance experience. Earning a Certified Regulatory Compliance Manager credential or completing a California Community College paralegal or business law certificate before applying gives candidates a concrete edge and demonstrates regulatory literacy to hiring managers reviewing entry-level applicants.
Where can I find and apply to risk compliance analyst jobs in California?
You can find and apply to risk compliance analyst jobs in California on Migrate Mate, which lists current California openings across financial services, healthcare, technology, and other sectors. Search the listings to see roles that match your experience level and location, then apply directly to the ones that fit.
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