Senior Counsel providing legal advice on complex third - party procurement transactions for Royal Bank of Canada. Collaborating with stakeholders and ensuring compliance with laws and regulations.
About the role
- Providing legal advice and support to USAA's business unit leadership while identifying and analyzing legal issues. Leading complex legal assignments to mitigate regulatory and compliance risks.
Responsibilities
- Provides legal counsel to support business objectives and mitigate regulatory, compliance and litigation risk to USAA.
- Leads complex legal assignments with a high level of business impact and delivers appropriate solutions.
- Effectively communicates with stakeholders and varying levels of leadership in both verbal and written forms.
- Produces clear and concise legal positions.
- Proactively monitors and analyzes changes in laws, regulations and industry and advises appropriate organizational leadership of such changes in a timely manner.
- Proactively collaborates across USAA and the Chief Legal Office to mitigate risk.
- Works effectively with outside counsel or contract professionals to complete assignments.
- May assist more senior attorneys in providing advice and counsel on highly complex matters.
- Ensures escalation of matters presenting more significant risk to more senior attorneys.
- Serves as a resource to less experienced team members.
- Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited school
- Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school required
- Licensed and in good standing to practice law in one state or a territory of the USA
- 6 years of relevant experience with at least 4 years of experience as a practicing attorney
- Ability to communicate legal advice effectively to business partners
- Experience in quality assurance, compliance, legal operations, or a similar analytical role
- Knowledge with legal matter management systems such as Onit and NetDocs
- Expertise with business process execution/knowledge/experience, consulting, and/or process engineering/optimization
- Experience with data analysis and/or visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI)
- Certifications in Quality Assurance (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean, ASQ)
- Knowledge of change management principles.
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
- 401(k)
- pension
- life insurance
- parental benefits
- adoption assistance
- paid time off program with paid holidays plus 16 paid volunteer hours
- various wellness programs
- career path planning and continuing education
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