Our Accenture Credit/Lending/Mortgage business helps residential and commercial mortgage lenders and loan servicers restructure and consolidate operations to address changing market conditions and new regulations. We focus on:

• Residential Servicing/ Default Services
• Commercial Real Estate Processing
• Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Management
• Consulting
• Residential Mortgage Origination/Fulfilment
• Residential Mortgage Servicing and Default Management
• Commercial Real Estate Services and Portfolio Management

You will:

You will act as a trusted adviser to the Global Industry Sector Legal Counsel for the Credit/Lending/Mortgage Teams, working to help analyze, advise, manage and mitigate regulatory risks, collaborating with senior stakeholders across the Business, Legal and other Corporate Functions to:

• Undertake regulatory risk analysis and advising stakeholders across Accenture in order to protect client sales and delivery and mitigate risk within existing, new, strategic priority & higher risk offerings and services in the Credit/Lending/Mortgage area in collaboration with all relevant parts of Accenture, including for example Government Relations, Global Legal Services, Responsible Business, Litigation (as needed) to support the sustainable growth of the Credit/Lending/Mortgage Industry and the sales of their services
• Help evaluate prospective acquisition targets from a regulatory perspective on behalf of the Credit/Lending/Mortgage Global Industry Sector Teams, and work with them to support post-merger integration strategies.
• Organize and direct the work of the ORC Team so as: to understand and manage regulatory risk in relation to as many market offerings as possible; participate in the offering development early on so as to make them compliant by design with a focus on early intervention and proactive shaping of solutions. Effectively you will be the subject matter expert to the business unit and other staff regarding compliance topics, developments, processes, and offering development life cycle - also working closely with Compliance to maintain its compliance programs.
• Be responsible for developing actionable solutions and practical tools / recommendations / guidelines and trainings for ORC. That would include working with the internal compliance team to manage, and maintain a legal/compliance library and assist to monitor laws that includes, but not limited to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, FHA, VA, (Federal and State) laws/regulations.
• Manage external counsel and external counsel budget.

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Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• JD degree or equivalent degree or legal qualification
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as an attorney providing services to the financial services industry (consumer & commercial lending).
• Admitted to the bar) or local equivalent) and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law
• Experience of relevant attorney work
• Strong commercial, technology, IP and data privacy experience and broad legal knowledge (e.g. spanning employment, litigation, corporate law and governance).

Professional Skills:

• Strong writing and negotiation skills
• Good executive presence and the ability to work effectively with the senior business leaders at Accenture, partners from law firms

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