Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory Affairs

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Job Summary

Job Description

This is a senior attorney role in the Regulatory Affairs Practice Group, reporting to the Chief Regulatory Counsel. You will join a team providing leadership and legal advice on regulatory matters for Guardian and its subsidiaries. Responsibilities include managing regulatory exams, inquiries, and investigations, supervising three professionals, and representing the Company in complex regulatory matters. The role also involves developing efficient processes for regulatory matters, creating reporting, and establishing robust engagement with other Law Department areas, leveraging technology and AI solutions. You will also counsel other departments on regulatory issues.
Must have:
  • Provide strategic and day-to-day counsel to the company on a range of regulatory and legal issues.
  • Effectively manage interactions with regulators, including in response to formal and informal inquiries, exams, requests, and representing individuals in regulatory testimony.
  • Identify and assess potential legal and regulatory issues, proactively managing them and involving key stakeholders.
  • Handle a portfolio of regulatory matters independently, exercising excellent judgment regarding when to escalate issues.
  • Supervise attorney and non-attorney staff handling regulatory matters, providing oversight, guidance, and support.
  • Build efficient processes to streamline intake, management, and closing of regulatory matters.
  • Build data reporting processes, in partnership with other areas of the Law Department.
  • Identify and manage outside counsel, where appropriate.
  • Provide counsel to other areas of the Law Department, including Complaints, Litigation & Investigations, and Cybersecurity, when their work presents regulatory issues.
  • Communicate effectively with attorneys, other colleagues, and leaders.
  • Engage across all business areas to build strong partnerships with colleagues and leaders.
  • Maintain awareness of industry trends and external environment, leveraging insight to inform strategies.
Good to have:
  • Litigation and government enforcement defense experience
Perks:
  • Support and flexibility to achieve professional and personal goals
  • Skill-building opportunities
  • Leadership development opportunities
  • Philanthropic opportunities
  • Opportunities to build communities
  • Opportunities to grow your career
  • Surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards
  • Contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources

Job Details

Guided by our company Purpose of “Inspiring well-being for our colleagues, consumers, and communities”, we are committed to building a best-in-class Law Department. We partner as trusted advocates and advisors to drive strategic solutions that advance Guardian’s purpose, priorities, and values.

We drive a high-performance culture across our Legal, Compliance, and Government Affairs functions. Aligned to “what” we deliver, our goals and “how” we deliver, our values and behaviors demonstrated in delivering against our goals. We do this through leveraging a series of core capabilities, which include interpersonal effectiveness, ability to demonstrate business savvy, subject matter expertise in your practice area, and leading people and teams, where applicable. Our colleagues, and the candidates we hire are key to the continuing success of our department.

This is a senior attorney role in the Regulatory Affairs Practice Group, reporting to the Chief Regulatory Counsel. In this role, you will join a team of attorneys and staff who provide leadership and legal advice on regulatory matters for Guardian and its subsidiaries. The Assistant General Counsel will have day-to-day responsibility for managing regulatory exams, inquiries, and investigations initiated by insurance, securities and other regulators. The Assistant General Counsel supervises three other professionals who handle regulatory matters, providing them oversight, guidance, and support, and will represent the Company in complex regulatory matters.

In addition, the Assistant General Counsel will develop processes for efficient intake, management, and closing of regulatory matters, will create reporting regarding such matters, and will establish robust engagement processes with other areas of the Law Department and across the enterprise, leveraging technology and AI solutions where appropriate. The Assistant General Counsel also will provide counsel to other areas of the Law Department, including Complaints, Litigation & Investigations, and Cybersecurity when their work presents regulatory issues that benefit from close coordination with the Regulatory Affairs Practice Group.

The Assistant General Counsel should have experience working in the insurance and securities regulatory environment and should have a command of insurance and securities laws and industry issues. The Assistant General Counsel should be adept at leveraging regulatory knowledge to actively support business strategies and priorities and to work collaboratively with business partners to navigate issues. In addition, the Assistant General Counsel should have experience building processes within existing institutional structures and leveraging technology solutions to maximize efficiency.

The ideal candidate is a regulatory subject matter expert who has previously held one or more roles requiring the following – legal/regulatory issue identification; concurrent project management across multiple teams and projects; collaboration with attorney and non-attorney colleagues, including business leaders; and oral and written advocacy with a variety of clients and before multiple regulators. Also, the ideal candidate will have extensive leadership experience.

Functional Leadership Skills & Behaviors

Interpersonal Effectiveness

  • Demonstrated ability to use communications and stories to inspire, motivate and influence others. You communicate concisely, with composure and confidence, and in an engaging manner.
  • Go beyond the expected and engage others to do more than what is expected.
  • Proactively seek out leadership or significant project opportunities.

Business Savvy

  • Have taken time to learn and become well-versed in our business. Able to bring your professional expertise to use for business and client needs in a way that makes a significant difference.
  • A strategic end-to-end view when organizing and planning work or initiatives; able to deliver exceptional results and outcomes, including by managing or influencing through others.
  • Find ways to ask insightful questions in creating or shaping solutions. Challenge existing approaches and enlist others in new thinking. Have experience creating a change environment and championing new projects that shape the future.

Legal Expertise

  • A mastery of both written and oral communications with the goal to provide concise, clear messaging to persuade audiences, especially at the executive level.
  • Remain current in your subject matter and demonstrate expert knowledge in your field. You are sought after for advice and counsel. Make ongoing, significant contributions toward achieving team and organizational goals.
  • Bring a solutions-based approach when working with clients, understanding needs to be able to deliver unique solutions to challenging business problems.

Lead by Example

  • Bring your authentic self to work and demonstrate empathy. Create an inclusive environment
  • Prioritize your and others’ well-being.
  • Stay informed and continually develop yourself as a leader. Create capacity for growth.

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About The Company

Every day, Guardian helps our 29 million customers realize their dreams through a range of insurance and financial products and services. Our Purpose, to inspire well-being, guides our dedication to the colleagues, consumers, and communities we serve. We know that people count, and we go above and beyond to prepare them for the life they want to live, focusing on their overall well-being — mind, body, and wallet. As one of the largest mutual insurance companies, we put our customers first. Behind every bright future is a GuardianTM.

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