Assistant General Counsel - Litigation (Financial Services)

Location: Birmingham, Alabama, United States; onsite at Regions Center.

Company

hirify.global is a financial services organization with a legal department supporting banking operations and business units.

What you will do

• Provide strategic, practical legal advice to business units, executive leadership, and senior management on complex business and banking matters.
• Interpret laws and regulations, monitor legislative developments, and support policies and procedures for new or amended regulations.
• Assess legal risk relating to business decisions, including risks to the Bank's reputation, clients, and assets.
• Manage outside counsel and related matter budgets, and maintain ownership of a legal function or specialization.
• Lead and mentor Assistant General Counsel, attorneys, specialists, paralegals, and other legal staff.
• Train bankers, associates, operational staff, and customer support staff on legal issues.

Requirements

• Law degree.
• Active license in good standing to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.
• At least 10 years of legal experience at a regulatory agency, in financial services, or at a law firm with strong knowledge of bank regulations, or other relevant practical legal experience.
• Ability to build partnerships with senior and executive leadership and work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to lead and manage attorneys and support staff providing legal support to an entire line of business.
• Ability to manage a high-volume workload, make prompt pragmatic decisions, and manage matters from start to finish with little to no oversight.
• Strong analytical, research, decision-making, problem-solving, organizational, time-management, and project-management skills.
• Ability to analyze facts, communicate complex issues clearly and concisely, provide results-oriented legal advice, and navigate complex discussions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and legal expertise in multiple specialized areas.

Nice to have

• Experience with class or collective actions, financial litigation, employment litigation, mass arbitration, or shareholder actions.
• Law firm experience, preferably supporting complex litigation matters.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, exempt position not eligible for overtime pay.
• Eligible for an annual discretionary incentive plan.
• Paid vacation and sick time, parental leave, and an associate volunteer program.
• Medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, health savings account, flexible spending account, and 401(k) with company match.
• Inclusive legal environment focused on developing employees and valuing individual skills and attributes.