Director, Legal and Compliance

Is your finger on the pulse of the evolving payments industry and the needs of banks, credit unions, and fintechs?
CheckAlt, a leading provider of integrated receivables and deposit imaging solutions for hundreds of financial institutions and businesses across the U.S., is hiring.
The Role
Your main mission is to provide expert and strategic legal advice to our teams. You will work closely with a variety of stakeholders to mitigate risk and provide guidance on the legal impacts of our business decisions. As a key member of our legal, risk and Compliance team, you will "see around the corner" to anticipate and handle complex and significant matters that cut across all areas of our business. You will bring a business-minded and execution-oriented approach and enjoy the challenge of wearing multiple hats in a fast-growing entrepreneurial environment.
What You'll Do:

• Coordinate with generalist and specialty outside counsel to review and execute customer and vendor agreements.
• Ensure adherence to company policies, procedures, and legal requirements during contract negotiation.
• Partner with sales/revenue teams to ensure legal redlines/negotiations are aligned with sales and relationship management strategy.
• Own contract management/administration including NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, DPAs and ancillary documents.
• Analyze legacy contracts to determine applicable terms, conditions, and growth opportunities and identify opportunities for optimization.
• Translate complex legal doctrine into plain English for a variety of constituencies, from entry level sales teams to executive leadership.
• Monitor evolving laws that may impact CheckAlt's products and services and assist with operationalizing compliant solutions where applicable.
• Maintain accurate documentation and records.

Talents you'll bring:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is required. Paralegal certification or J.D. degree is preferred.
• 3+ years of experience supporting projects in an in-house legal department.
• A strong interest in payments and legal issues in highly regulated industries.
• Firm understanding of financial services industry, especially B2B receivables, and related universe of compliance laws, including privacy statutes. Prior experience supporting a bank, credit union or fintech is preferred.
• Experience using a contracts/vendor management platform such as NContracts or Venminder.
• Familiarity with principles of risk management, including data risk, is helpful.
• First class communication and collaboration skills
• Military service experience is welcome and appreciated.

Characteristics you'll have:

• Results-oriented with self-motivation and drive to enable client success and improve results.
• Ability to wear multiple hats and pivot strategies and execution in a timely manner.
• Curious leader by nature, comfortable providing opinions outside lanes of ownership.
• Comfort operating in a dynamic matrixed environment with the entrepreneurial spirit and willingness to step up and do the work.
• A personal and business value of treating others with honesty and respect.

The base salary range for this role's listed level is currently $117,000 and $195,000. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members and alignment with market data.
We value the unique expertise and experience attained through military service. Transitioning service members, active members of the Guard and Reserve, and military spouses are encouraged to apply.
CheckAlt is the largest independent provider of treasury and receivables management solutions in the country. Our client base includes hundreds of financial institutions, including top tier banks, regional and local banks and credit unions.
CheckAlt assists financial institutions in more efficiently processing their deposit items from all capture points within the bank, credit union or at their clients. We enable banks to attract and retain business customers with innovative white label payment solutions. Additionally, we offer easy-to-integrate APIs for mobile and web developers that want to accept Check 21 payments.
We offer our eligible employees benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability and 401K.
CheckAlt is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
For more information, visit http://www.checkalt.com .
CheckAlt will not sell your personal information. If you are a California resident, CheckAlt will not use your information in a manner prohibited by the California Consumer Privacy Act. If you are a California resident, you can request that CheckAlt delete all records of your application. To submit such a request, please email careers@checkalt.com .