Description:
Summary: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.
Essential Job Duties and 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
- Perform other tasks as assigned from time to time by the company
Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:
- Competence as a lawyer with 5-7 years of experience; proven ability to manage a heavy workload in high-pressure environments
- Must have a JD degree from an accredited law school
- Demonstrates strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills across departments and with external stakeholders; proactively advises and supports clients
- Exercises sound judgment with the ability to make clear, well-reasoned recommendations and identify key stakeholders who need to be informed
- Must have experience advising mortgage lenders, financial institutions, or fintechs on legal and regulatory consumer credit lending issues
- Self-starter with good business sense and a sense of urgency, honesty, and fairness
- Team player and calm under pressure
- Self-confident and inspires confidence from clients
- Candidate with experience handling mortgage/HELOC products, legal issues, litigation and consumer complaints, and examinations preferred
- Committed to being a legal business partner to internal clients
