Senior Counsel

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 and procedures.
• Perform other tasks as assigned from time to time by the company.

Required Skills, Knowledge and Abilities:

• 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.
• Must have a JD degree from an accredited law school.
• Candidate must have experience advising mortgage lenders, financial institutions or fintechs on legal and regulatory consumer credit lending issues, specifically credit cards.
• Prefer candidate with experience handling mortgage/HELOC products, legal issues, litigation and consumer complaints, and examinations.
• Committed to being a legal business partner to internal clients.