Corporate Attorney (Hybrid)

Purpose: Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, the Corporate Counsel serves as a key legal and strategic advisor, collaborating with senior business leaders across the enterprise to effectively mitigate legal risks while advancing corporate goals and objectives.
The Corporate Counsel will be expected to deliver proactive, timely, and accurate legal, contractual, governance, and other advice and guidance for a publicly traded financial institution that markets and sells banking, investment, and insurance products and services.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Degree of Supervision Received: Moderate
Supervision Received (title): Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary

Degree of Supervision Given: None
Supervision Given to (Titles): None
Essential Functions:

• Serving as a key legal and strategic advisor, the Corporate Counsel will collaborate and communicate directly with business leaders across the enterprise to effectively manage legal risks while advancing corporate goals and objectives.
• Deliver proactive, timely, and accurate legal, contractual, governance, and other advice and guidance.
• Conduct legal research and analysis and advise on solutions to mitigate legal risk, and comply with regulatory and contractual requirements.
• Negotiate, prepare, interpret, and advise on contractual matters.
• Provide advice and counsel on corporate, labor and employment, and governance matters, and support planning and preparation around Annual Shareholder Meetings and public disclosures.
• Prepare customer and employee agreements and regulatory disclosures.
• Engage in litigation management, including legal holds management, insurance claim notification, and associated contingent liability disclosures of a public company.
• Prepare legal and governance documents like policies, procedures, bylaws, agendas, meeting materials, executive summaries, minutes, and corporate certifications.
• Champion and execute on process improvement recommendations that help to improve effectiveness and efficiencies of business units in mitigating legal risk.
• Demonstrate the standards and principles of the An American Commercial Bank experience in every interaction with internal and external customers, associates, and stakeholders. Incorporate the high-performance behaviors of HEART in every facet of work.

Job Related Qualifications – Education and Prior Experience:
Required:

• Education: Juris Doctor Degree
• Prior Experience: 5+ years of Legal, and General Corporate experience
• Licenses or Accreditation: License to Practice Law in New York State

Preferred:

• Education: Juris Doctor Degree
• Prior Experience: 7+ years of Legal, General Corporate, Public Company and Banking Law experience
• Licenses or Accreditation: License to Practice Law in New York State

Competencies:

• Ability to handle complex matters and perform work with moderate oversight, keeping the Chief Legal Officer well-informed of workflows and elevating material matters for review and input.
• Ability to conduct thorough, reliable, and accurate legal research.
• Possesses sound judgment and analytical ability to identify trends, interpret data, conduct root cause analysis, and apply findings to workflows to deliver accurate, proactive, and strategic legal advice.
• Strong negotiation and advocacy skills.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet established deadlines.
• Highest degree of ethical standards, integrity and professionalism and ability to maintain strict discretion and confidentiality.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to interact positively with a wide variety of individuals; proven ability to work with senior management to solve complex problems.
• Strong experience level with all Microsoft Office applications including the ability to learn new and existing banking software.
• Management experience commensurate with assigning matters to and overseeing the work of external counsel and internal staff.

Physical Requirements:

• Able to regularly sit for prolonged periods of time.
• Able to travel occasionally.
• Extensive computer usage is required.