Corporate Compliance Specialist
Job Description
The Corporate Compliance Specialist is an essential member of the legal and corporate compliance team. He or she will report to the Director of Corporate Compliance, and is responsible for assisting in the development, planning, and monitoring of all compliance-related functions. This includes, but is not limited to completing compliance investigations, evaluating organizational risk, assisting in mitigation strategies, assisting with internal audits and building meaningful relationships to influence compliance standards amongst departments. The successful candidate must be agile, with a demonstrated ability to pivot and manage a workload properly and timely, and able to work as part of a close-knit team in a fast-paced environment of a highly regulated healthcare company.
Responsibilities
- Make recommendations regarding development and revision of policies and procedures for the general operation of the Compliance Program and related activities to prevent illegal, unethical, or improper conduct.
- Assist in the development and delivery of education to operations teams to support them in understanding and complying with applicable requirements.
- Assist in developing and monitoring key performance indicators to assess operational risk.
- Maintain a working knowledge of applicable regulations, industry standards or changes, and policies as they affect Spring Health through routine review of resources, e.g. Federal Register, Multiple-state manuals, bulletins, notices, etc.
- Assess corrective action plan adherence or continuous improvement plan adherence until operational areas meet appropriate standards.
- Assist in investigations surrounding alleged violations of rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and Code of Conduct.
- Assist in the remediation of any compliance hotline calls.
- Act as communications channel to receive compliance issues, collaborating with other departments to direct concerns to appropriate existing channels for investigation and resolution.
- Make recommendations regarding follow-up actions in response to violations of rules, regulations, policies, procedures and Code of Conduct.
- Monitor regulatory registrations and filings and ensure that they remain current.
- Maintains collaborative working relationships with Operations, the People Team, Finance, and corporate leadership and other stakeholders.
- Acts as a champion for Corporate Compliance to support the continuing momentum towards practices that align with the agency mission and values as well as legal and ethical requirements.
- Work on ad hoc projects, routine assignments, and recurring tasks under the direction of Compliance leadership
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from four-year college.
- 2+ years of experience in a healthcare compliance or regulatory role, HCCA certification a plus.
- Fundamental understanding of the seven elements of a compliance program.
- Experience drafting, reviewing and maintaining policies and procedures.
- Highly organized and able to manage complex projects from end-to-end.
- Ability to independently and thoroughly research, analyze, organize, and clearly summarize issues.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability over assigned projects and tasks.
- Excited about working on a broad variety of compliance matters.
- High level of integrity, professionalism, intellectual curiosity, and willingness to grow.
- Participate as a team player in all phases of the organization; remain open and responsive to change.
- Maintain strict confidentiality of personnel data, proprietary information, and sensitive materials as required.
