Legal & Compliance Paralegal
About The Position
Investors Heritage is seeking a highly organized, analytical, and proactive Compliance Paralegal to support the Company’s Legal and Compliance functions. This role will independently administer and coordinate a variety of regulatory, compliance, legal operations, and corporate governance processes, including managing workflows, coordinating across departments, preparing high-quality work product, and identifying matters requiring attorney or compliance leadership review. The Compliance Paralegal will work closely with the General Counsel, attorneys, compliance personnel, and business leaders throughout the Company and will gain broad exposure to insurance regulation and in-house legal and compliance operations. The position reports to the General Counsel and works under the supervision of the General Counsel and other designated attorneys or compliance leaders. This position is hybrid.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree, Paralegal Certificate, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
- At least five years of experience in a legal, compliance, regulatory, insurance, financial-services, or comparable professional environment.
- Demonstrated ability to independently manage multiple processes, projects, and deadlines.
- Strong organizational and project-management skills.
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- High degree of discretion when handling confidential or privileged information.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, AI applications and similar business applications.
Nice To Haves
- Experience preparing or administering SERFF filings.
- Experience supporting insurance regulatory and compliance matters, including regulatory filings and examinations, state insurance department requirements, and compliance programs.
- Experience administering contracts and corporate governance records.
- Experience using Westlaw, LexisNexis, or comparable research tools.
- Experience creating or improving legal or compliance workflows, trackers, and operational processes.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate, prepare, submit, track, and maintain insurance regulatory filings and related documentation.
- Maintain regulatory calendars and monitor recurring, event-driven, and project-specific deadlines.
- Assist with and, as experience develops, independently administer routine SERFF filings and other regulatory submissions.
- Coordinate information and documentation from business areas necessary to support regulatory filings and responses.
- Support regulatory examinations, audits, investigations, and inquiries, including maintaining request trackers, organizing supporting materials, and preparing initial draft responses.
- Track regulatory requests, commitments, corrective actions, and other outstanding matters through completion, escalating potential issues as appropriate.
- Support and independently administer assigned day-to-day Legal and Compliance processes and workflows.
- Maintain matter lists, departmental calendars, legal and compliance records, and other tracking systems.
- Track legal deadlines, regulatory commitments, contractual notices, renewals, and other departmental obligations.
- Assist with subpoenas, powers of attorney, guardianship matters, litigation holds, information requests, and other routine legal matters.
- Support administration of compliance policies, training, certifications, monitoring, and programs including AML, OFAC, privacy, consumer protection, and complaint management.
- Assist attorneys and compliance personnel with regulatory matters, transactions, litigation, special projects, and enterprise initiatives.
- Assist with intake, investigation, tracking, and administration of consumer complaints and regulatory inquiries, including gathering records and preparing factual summaries and initial draft correspondence.
- Conduct factual, legal, and regulatory research at the direction of attorneys or compliance leadership.
- Monitor relevant regulatory developments and prepare summaries, comparison charts, and research compilations for review.
- Maintain regulatory change tracking and assist with implementation of new or revised requirements.
- Identify recurring themes, unusual matters, or potentially significant developments requiring additional legal or compliance review.
- Maintain contract, corporate, and Legal and Compliance document repositories and related tracking systems.
- Track contract approvals, amendments, renewals, expirations, notices, and signature processes.
- Maintain corporate governance records and assist with board and committee materials, resolutions, consents, and meeting documentation.
- Organize and administer data rooms and document collections supporting examinations, litigation, transactions, audits, and due diligence.
- Maintain appropriate document organization, version control, retention practices, templates, trackers, and standardized workflows.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
