Remote Client Risk & Compliance Advisor

Eliassen Group; Montpelier (VT); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Client Risk Analyst to serve as a liaison among clients, sales, product, and information security to evaluate control requirements and provide defensible, compliant solutions.

The role involves interpreting complex security requests, aligning with enterprise policies, and offering alternative approaches to mitigate risk. Remote work is available with a comprehensive benefits package for W2 consultants.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in risk management, information security, compliance, security consulting, client governance, or related disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Conduct assessments of client security, privacy, and operational control requirements.
• Evaluate client questionnaires, audits, and security reviews.
• Analyze client requests against enterprise security standards, policies, and compliance frameworks.
• Partner with legal, compliance, privacy, security, and product stakeholders to determine risk responses.
• Assess controls involving data privacy and protection, encryption standards and key management, identity and access management, authentication controls, password policies, and data retention and handling requirements.
• Evaluate impact of security exceptions and alternative control recommendations.
• Understand how client and end-user data is utilized, shared, stored, and protected across business processes.
• Serve as trusted advisor during client negotiations involving security and compliance requirements.
• Explain security, compliance, and operational limitations in a clear and business-friendly manner.
• Recommend compensating controls and alternative approaches when required.
• Provide risk-based guidance balancing security, compliance, feasibility, and customer needs.
• Collaborate with Client Success, Client Delivery, Sales, Product Teams, Information Security, and Legal & Compliance.
• Support annual client reviews, regulatory assessments, and recurring risk management activities.
• Participate in client-facing meetings and presentations.
• Interpret internal security policies and external regulatory requirements.
• Support assessments for background screening requirements, data privacy obligations, information safeguarding standards, and industry-specific compliance requirements.
• Document risk decisions, exceptions, and remediation activities.

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Client Risk Analyst to serve as a liaison among clients, sales, product, and information security to evaluate control requirements and provide defensible, compliant solutions.

The role involves interpreting complex security requests, aligning with enterprise policies, and offering alternative approaches to mitigate risk. Remote work is available with a comprehensive benefits package for W2 consultants.