Legal Research and Regulatory Compliance Advisor

The Legal Research and Regulatory Compliance Advisor will be responsible for review, analysis and collection of documentation to complete member and outside requests relating to subpoenas, trust documents, power of attorney requests, contract review, insurance and other legal matters. This position will also assess risks and compliance, to identify and mitigate legal risk areas across the organization.  The Legal Research and Regulatory Compliance Advisor provides daily operational support to internal departments and branches on legal, compliance, risk-related issues and is involved in various cross functional projects.

DIMENSIONS:

Service: Provide exceptional service to internal partners and external members.
• Grit: Persistent in the application of knowledge, skills, and behaviors to achieve goals and address obstacles.
• Intrinsic Motivation; is self-driven to meet or exceed objectives, timelines, and quality measures while building and sustaining effective relationships.
• Creative Problem-solving: finds ways to meet individual, team, and member goals, by navigating through barriers. 
• DEI: Advocate, promoter, and modeler of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

NATURE & SCOPE:

• Owns legal reporting and creates reports to inform stakeholders.
• Collects, reviews and analyzes legal requests made by members and outside parties.
• Assists in matters subject to legal holds to gather and preserve all potentially relevant data. 
• Establish data, metrics and benchmarking through multiple sources to evaluate trends and cost of compliance and legal risk to prioritize resources. 
• Provides key input to the compliance and legal process.

Strong time-management skills to maintain or exceed expected daily workload, while also maintaining overall team defined internal service standard
• Collaborates with management to define and establish key risk indicators to effectively monitor and predict increasing compliance, legal, and risk conditions.
• Participates in project teams, committees and focus groups related to operational process improvement initiatives.
• Completes thorough and accurate work

• Provides operational support in the Compliance, Legal, and Risk Management departments as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned/required.  

Education, skills, & abilities:

Bachelor’s degree, in, business, finance, political science, or a related field, from an accredited college/university.
• Juris Doctor degree required from accredited law school. California State Bar License preferred but not required.
• 1-3 years of recent experience legal work, contract review, and compliance.
• Strong analytical, communication (oral and written), and personal computer skills.  
• Ability to gather, compile and present data in a clear and logical manner.
• Meticulous, detail-oriented approach to work matters
• Up-to-date understanding of key legal issues germane to banking industry
• Effective interpersonal skills; ability to communicate persuasively, in writing, speaking and audio-visual technologies
• Exceptional writing and grammar proficiency, ability to present numerical data effectively, and ability to edit own work for spelling and grammar.
• Experience working with Microsoft Applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook. Advance working knowledge of Excel is required.
• Ability to handle multiple responsibilities and projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
• Highly motivated to contribute and grow within a complex area of emerging importance,

MAJOR ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Completes daily operations relating to legal functions; perform factual and legal research and analysis
• Accountable for and act in a leadership capacity for multiple complex and critical processes, programs and projects for the Compliance, Legal and Risk Management Department
• Draft and review contracts. 
• Keep abreast of legal and regulatory requirements affecting the credit union.
• Serves as a key contributor in cross-functional teams

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Ability to tolerate periods of continuous sitting. Ability to lift to 10 pounds. Ability to concentrate on tasks and sit in meetings for extended periods.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Work is primarily performed within a cubicle office setting, or a home work environment.  It may be subject to standard background noise found in an office environment. 

Note: Staff is expected to perform various tasks, projects and administrative duties as assigned. Management reserves the right to assign or change duties and tasks to this position at their discretion.

Salary Range

$90,560.2880 - $113,200.3600