Senior Associate, Licensing Acquisition
About The Position
Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth. Practice Overview: With long-time licensing officers and former regulators, the Ankura team has centuries of collective experience obtaining and maintaining thousands of regulatory licenses for Fintech companies in areas including money transmission, cryptocurrency, prepaid access, currency exchange, lending, and gaming. Our emphasis on excellent project management steeped in Kaizen methodology helps ensure timely and hyper efficient results. Our experts have serviced, worked at, or supervised a statistically significant portion of all licensed U.S. money transmitters. We are seeking a Senior Associate, Licensing Acquisition, to join the team. Ideally this role would be hybrid out of one of our locations; however, remote locations will be considered on a case to case basis.
Requirements
- At least 3+ years of related experience
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Strong knowledge of MS Office products
- Experience with the acquisition of Licenses for: Money Transmitters [MSB, FinTech’s, payment companies], consumer lending companies, commercial lending, mortgage lending, consumer collections agencies and securities/brokerage [broker dealer, registered investment advisor, exempt registered advisor] and cannabis is the ideal candidate
- Knowledge of license acquisition and maintenance for some of the above license types is required
- Working knowledge of NMLS system is required
- Willing to build and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues and treat others with care, respect and consideration while maintaining professional integrity
- Participate as an active part of the team by offering support, and knowledge to colleagues
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Superior attention to detail, sets and works to high standards, highly organized, and able to get up to speed rapidly, able to recognize and escalate technical client or risk issues to project lead
- At ease multi-tasking under deadlines, calm under pressure, flexible and working outside comfort zone
- Understands project objectives, scope and client expectations
- Submits work product with minimal errors
- Understands role and personal impact on project profitability
- Solicit and act upon feedback personal performance
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future
Nice To Haves
- Paralegal, CAMS, CFE, PMP and related are preferred, but not required
Responsibilities
- Working knowledge of state regulatory, exam and licensing process. May include conducting additional research as needed
- May require reviewing work conducted by Associate
- Participation in state money transmission license acquisition including preparation of licensing applications and work required under the direction of project lead
- Support the team to resolve outstanding issues identified in the application process under the direction of project lead
- Assisting with data gathering activities including document review and supervision and quality control of data entry activities
- Providing non-legal outreach to state regulators as directed by project lead
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
