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Senior Counsel

Senior Counsel

CompanyGoodleap
LocationBentonville, AR, USA
Salary$150000 – $200000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesJD
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • 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 fintech’s 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

  • 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