Compliance and Risk Lead

CalPERS

Are you looking for an opportunity to advance your risk management career? Are you ready to work at the largest public pension fund in the United States? CalPERS promotes and supports a culture that builds compliance and ethics awareness into the daily business processes for all program areas. The Compliance & Risk Lead responsibilities include conducting compliance assurance and monitoring services for CalPERS divisions including Investments, Benefits, and Operations & Technology. The successful candidate will lead efforts to implement the risk framework and conduct compliance monitoring across these divisions, support the risk assessment activities, conduct assurance reviews, facilitate issues management, and operational risk identification.

Duties included, but not limited to:

Partner with business owners to schedule and conduct periodic horizontal and vertical risk assurance reviews. Identify potential risks that may need to be addressed and work with divisions on action plans. Provide routine updates to management and various committees on monitoring and assurance review results.
Utilize your expertise in the investment, pension, and financial service industry to implement best practices for monitoring and assurance activities and educate various levels of management along the journey.
Review risk-specific mitigation plans for identified compliance risks prepared by CalPERS’ divisions.
Effectively review and provide compliance recommendations and risk-specific mitigation plans for management approval.
Guide the development of relevant internal controls and provide implementation guidance to program areas.

Location (Optional) - Sacramento - Hybrid