Assistant General Counsel

About the role

The Assistant General Counsel is a senior attorney providing broad-based legal advice and services to Mason Companies for a diverse range of activities, under the direction of the Vice President and General Counsel. This position is located in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Flexible work arrangements may be available.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice, support and assistance with a broad range of legal issues, including contracts, transactions, marketing, risk management, employment, and compliance matters
• Support the operation and enhancement of the Company’s compliance program, related to the Company’s employment policies, consumer credit, collection, privacy, and protection, and other policy and regulatory requirements, including:
  • Monitor, research and assess applicable and developing compliance requirements for the Company
  • Provide clear, concise, accurate, timely and practical compliance advice and support to management and employees of the Company
  • Partner with the General Counsel on compliance program development, governance, regulatory compliance and risk strategies
  • Develop and improve applicable policies, procedures and guidelines
  • Deliver compliance training and manage employee participation and records
  • Monitor the Company’s compliance hotline and provide appropriate reporting
  • Conduct or support internal compliance investigations as directed
  • Coordinate compliance testing, surveillance, auditing, evaluation and remediation
  • Support alignment of the Company’s compliance program with compliance initiatives of the Company’s external partners
• Manage the preparation, filing, tracking and renewal of regulatory applications, licenses, renewals, notices and other filings
• Develop strong working relationships across the Company and support cross-functional teams as directed
• Instruct, manage and otherwise interact with outside legal counsel as appropriate and authorized to promote high quality, cost-effective, responsive external legal services
• Produce professional quality, efficient, creative, practical, and responsive legal services for novel, complex, and continually changing legal issues
• Support judicial and regulatory proceedings, including litigation, arbitration, investigations, and negotiations
• Support insurance and related risk management activities, in coordination with the Finance Department
• Support labor and employment activities, in coordination with the Human Resources Department
• Support incident response and remediation activities, including security breach incident response, in coordination with the Information Technology Department
• Perform other tasks as assigned

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree required