Compliance Specialist [SK-12207]

About the role

Join a leading real estate technology platform, partnered with Aquent, where your expertise will directly contribute to maintaining regulatory excellence and ensuring seamless operations across a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This pivotal role allows you to make a significant impact by safeguarding the organization’s adherence to complex state and federal regulations, directly influencing the integrity and efficiency of our business practices.

Responsibilities

• Conduct thorough research on licensing topics with state real estate commissions and regulatory agencies.
• Analyze brokerage and individual license requirements and ensure compliance with state regulatory guidelines.
• Maintain, monitor, and update data in an internal licensing management system for individual and company license work.
• Pull and administer licensing reports for compliance teams, management teams, and business stakeholders.
• Coordinate communication with state real estate commissions, designated brokers, and internal stakeholders regarding licensing matters.
• Complete license verification checks with state agencies and escalate exceptions to management.
• Reconcile expenses related to license applications, renewals, and general license maintenance.
• Complete administrative tasks such as ordering licensing documentation from state real estate commissions.
• Submit new license, reciprocal, amendment, renewal, and surrender filings via state real estate commission portals.
• Review and advise licensees on requirements for new and reciprocal licenses, including broker agreement execution.
• Monitor licensee rosters and ensure upcoming renewal and continuing education deadlines are met.
• Facilitate and complete documentation signings with designated brokers and individual licensees during onboarding and renewals.
• Multitask and work independently to deliver high quality service and results in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

The following qualifications are required:

• At least 5 years of experience handling real estate brokerage licensing, compliance, or equivalent experience in a regulated industry.
• Ability to understand the regulatory framework and industry practices applicable to real estate brokerage licensing at both the individual and entity level.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Experience with exposure to confidential information and an understanding of the importance of maintaining such confidentiality including legal, financial, and personal information.
• Proven analytical ability and initiative.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience in document management and electronic record keeping.
• Ability to effectively handle shifting priorities and adapt to changing demands in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Proficient within the Microsoft and Google suites.

The following qualifications are nice to have:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• Experience with state real estate commission portals, Airtable, and/or DocuSign preferred.

About Aquent Talent and Skill

Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium.

Skill connects the best professional, IT, engineering, financial and administrative talent with the world’s biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to benefits such as health benefit contributions, retirement plans with match and flexible spending accounts. Both Aquent and Skill are equal-opportunity employers, evaluating qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.