Specialist- Compliance

Padgett Law Group (PLG) is an elite, full service creditors' rights law firm with practices in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Alabama, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Illinois. Additionally, PLG offers national bankruptcy, replevin, and loss mitigation services. The firm’s practice provides exclusive representation to institutional clients such as lenders, mortgage servicers, credit unions, banks, hedge funds, investors and other financial services industry stakeholders. Leveraging technology in our partnerships with forward-thinking clients gives PLG the ability to focus on the aggressive management and processing of delinquent or under performing loans, providing our clients with an edge when curing or resolving these complex legal matters. In 2019, PLG was recognized by The M Report, a leading default services industry publication, as a Top 25 Company to Work For.

At Padgett Law Group, our mission is simple: to attract and retain the most talented individuals within our industry while delivering high-quality legal services to our clients. We understand our crucial role as our clients strive to provide an ethical and empathetic experience. We contribute to that through our long-standing and recognizable firm culture that is visible during every interaction with PLG—and amongst ourselves. At PLG, we stand on our decades-long tradition of merit, respect, hard work, and excellent results, and we use that foundation for every service we provide. As a firm, we believe that our mission can only be truly realized through investment in our core values of People, Precision, and Performance.

At Padgett Law Group, we're not just looking for talented employees to join our growing team. We're looking for leaders who cultivate those around them and contribute to our path forward; we're looking for individuals who appreciate our culture and commit to our shared goals; we're looking for people who want to be more than employees, processors, or paper pushers.

Our vision is to build the most compelling law firm that is home to the industry’s best talent, as we are today and as we grow in the future.

What’s in it for you? Padgett Law Group believes in investing in our employees and ensuring that they have all the resources necessary to succeed - including a competitive, comprehensive, and valuable benefits package. As a full-time PLG employee, you will receive:

• 4 weeks of PTO from day one (which increases with tenure)
• Paid Parental and Grandparent Leave
• 7 Paid Company Holidays and your birthday off every year
• Full suite of healthcare insurance options including health, dental, vision, STD, LTD, Accident, Critical Illness, Voluntary Life and AD&D coverage, and more
• Company-covered Term Life Insurance, AD&D Insurance, and Employee Assistance Program
• 401k (with company match)
• Extensive Training and Development Opportunities
• Flexible work schedules including in-office, hybrid, and remote working capabilities and more!

About the Position

The Compliance Specialist role at Padgett Law Group is responsible for the onboarding, oversight, and offboarding of the Firm’s operational and enterprise vendors. The Compliance Specialist acts as a liaison between the Firm’s operational departments and the Firm’s operational vendors. This includes management of vendor systems, addressing and escalating any systemic vendor issues, and overseeing operational vendor usage at the Firm. The Compliance Specialist will further assist in the Firm’s Compliance Department, by completing tasks as needed and directed by the Firm’s Compliance Manager.

The Compliance Specialist’s duties and responsibilities are dynamic in nature and are subject to change as the Firm and its client base as well as footprint grows and as the landscape of the Firm’s primary practice (creditor’s rights) changes. Priorities may shift each day as new requirements and change management items occur at varying levels of urgency.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Research potential new vendors when a need arises for a new vendor, whether to replace an existing vendor, to add an additional vendor to an existing vendor type, or to consider utilization of a new vendor type altogether.
• Facilitate the onboarding, offboarding, and contractual renewals of all vendors
• Conduct due diligence reviews upon onboarding of new critical vendors and annually thereafter
• Manage the performance of the Firm’s operational vendors, escalate and address issues as presented, and facilitate remedial efforts when required
• Audit and oversee the usage of operational vendors to confirm compliance with client and Firm expectations and requirements
• Manage employee access to vendor systems and assign or provide training as necessary regarding usage of vendor systems
• Maintain and update internal SharePoint sites and lists
• Assist with other tasks as assigned

• High school diploma. Some additional education is recommended
• Experience in the mortgage default industry preferred
• Microsoft 365 suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, SharePoint, etc.) knowledge and experience
• Ability to work with others in a congenial and team-oriented manner.
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to multi-task and be adaptable to continual change.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• Prolonged time sitting at a desk typing, using, and looking at a computer.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) of this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

To perform this job successfully, the employee(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at will relationship.