Senior Counsel

Overview

This role provides direct legal support to mortgage/HELOC products and business units as a Senior Counsel member of the Legal Compliance team. The position works with outside counsel as well as in-house legal and paralegal team members, providing advice on legal issues and supporting business sectors involving mortgage, consumer credit, and related products and services.

Responsibilities

• Manage and work on legal, regulatory, and product issues related to mortgage/HELOC financial products and business units, including managing and coordinating with outside counsel and other business units.
• Advise and support legal, regulatory, and product issues related to debt collection, privacy, consumer credit compliance, lending, and solar financing.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and organization policies and procedures.
• Perform other tasks as assigned from time to time by the organization.

Requirements

• Competence as a lawyer; ability to manage a heavy workload in a high-pressure environment.
• Strong communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills within and across departments and externally; proactive in providing counsel.
• Sound judgment, including the ability to make reasoned recommendations and determine who should be kept informed.
• Self-starter with strong business sense and a sense of urgency, honesty, and fairness.
• Good team player; calm under pressure.
• Self-confident and able to inspire confidence from clients.
• JD degree from an accredited law school.
• Experience advising mortgage lenders, financial institutions, or fintechs on legal and regulatory consumer credit lending issues.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience handling mortgage/HELOC products, legal issues, litigation, and consumer complaints.
• Experience handling examinations.
• Commitment to being a legal business partner to internal clients.

Compensation & Benefits

• $150,000 - $200,000 per year

Location

Not specified in the provided job description.