Senior Counsel

About the Role

Responsible for providing direct legal support to mortgage/HELOC products and business units as Senior Counsel member of Legal Compliance team. Works with outside Counsel and in-house legal and paralegal team members. Provides advice on legal issues and supports all sectors of the business with regards to 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 working with outside counsel and other business units.
• Provide advice and support legal, regulatory, and product issues related to debt collection, privacy, consumer credit compliance, lending and solar financing.
• Ensures compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and Company policies and procedures.
• Perform other tasks as assigned from time to time by the company.

Qualifications

• JD degree from an accredited law school.
• Experience advising mortgage lenders, financial institutions or fintechs on legal and regulatory consumer credit lending issues.

Skills

• Competence as a lawyer; ability to manage heavy workload in a high-pressure environment.
• Good communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills within and across departments and externally; must be proactive in providing counsel to clients.
• Sound judgment: ability to clearly make reasoned recommendations; ability to cross think and determine who should be kept informed.
• Self-starter with good business sense and a sense of urgency, honesty, and fairness.
• Good team player, calm under pressure.
• Self-confident and inspires confidence from clients.
• Committed to being a legal business partner to internal clients.

Preferred Experience

• Experience handling mortgage/HELOC products, legal issues, litigation and consumer complaints, and examinations.

Pay

$150,000 - $200,000 per year