Total 11 Senior Executive level Finance / Banking / Insurance job vacancies in Keyport, Washington

The Senior Level Appellate Counsel (False Claims Act) serves as a technical expert and coordinator for attorneys in the Appellate Staff and across the Division in False Claims Act litigation, and as a resource for other offices and agencies that require advice on difficult matters under the False Claims Act. Additionally, the incumbent assists, as appropriate, with the Division's False Claims Act cases in the Supreme Court, including preparing certiorari petitions and briefs for submission to the Court. The Senior Level Appellate Counsel (False Claims Act) prepares recommendations for or against appeal or rehearing in cases that fall within the incumbent's area of expertise, in which lower court decisions are averse to the government. The Senior Level Appellate Counsel (False Claims Act) also serves as a technical expert on other significant appellate litigation as assigned.

At the full performance level, major duties include:

• Performs and coordinates the daily operations of the human resource management and administrative issues for the COO Organization.
• Provides advice, guidance and oversight to all levels of management and staff on matters involving the full range of personnel management and administrative management policies and procedures, to include the on boarding and exiting of employees.
• Serves as liaison between management and staff on issues regarding personnel management and position management policy, procedures and other matters affecting division administrative programs.
• Coordinates and/or personally responds to inquiries on all administrative matters. Interacts with other divisions and offices to conduct research, answer inquiries, and resolve problems.
• Conducts and leads studies and analysis of administrative programs, processes, and operations, reviewing processes, procedures and operations, gathering and analyzing data, and making recommendations for increasing effectiveness of the Organization's administrative programs, implementing improvements in internal policies and procedures, operations and administrative programs, and to resolve complex and sensitive problems and issues.
• Manages staffing related data by initiating, reviewing, and correcting personnel actions on employees and generating reports and other information from various database systems (e.g., NFC, CHRIS).

• Takes the lead on the negotiation and consummation of complex settlements in cases.
• Oversees and/or plans and executes all aspects of assigned litigation.
• Prepares legal briefs, office memoranda, and other documents on complex or sensitive legal and litigation issues, including those involving questions of first impression and with conflicting precedent that require extensive research and analysis.
• Maintains close communication with outside counsel to ensure compliance, consistency and accuracy of substantive and procedural positions and briefs pending before state and federal courts, nationwide, on behalf of or against the FDIC in any capacity.
• Identifies legal issues related to civil and bankruptcy litigation and conducts legal research.
• Responsible for identifying and managing matters related to commercial litigation that arise from the FDIC’s role as receiver, liquidator, or conservator of failed financial institutions.

• Serves as a liaison, represents the Corporation or Legal Division at meetings, and/or coordinates activities with officials and staffs of other federal financial regulators, state regulators and other agencies and departments on legal issues related to the supervisory functions of the Corporation.
• Serves as the Bank Activities Unit (BAU) representative on intra- or interagency committees, task forces, and working groups on a wide range of matters such as legislation, rulemakings, policy statements, and programs related to the current financial crisis.
• Undertakes special projects and assignments as requested by the Assistant General Counsel (AGC), Bank Activities and Regional Affairs Section (BARAS) and as directed or otherwise necessary, personally handles a case load consisting of the most difficult, complex, significant, and precedent-setting matters related to areas of responsibility assigned to BAU.
• Formulates policy and ensures FDIC uniformity nationwide in the interpretation and application of laws, regulations and policy governing the activities, operations and structure of insured depository institutions, by providing advice, guidance, and assistance to Division management, legal staff in the Regional and Area offices, and to other branches and sections of the Legal Division.
• Ensures that BAU produces quality work products related to regulatory and legislative projects that involve complex, novel legal and policy issues with significant impact on insured depository institutions, depositors, and consumers and that these work products are in accordance with FDIC policies and also provide balance between effective supervision and other important concerns and interests.
• Assumes responsibility, often independently, for identifying legal issues related to the activities, operations and structure of insured depository institutions, the laws that govern those institutions, and the duties and mission of the FDIC. Analyzes, and acts as a technical expert in consultation with other FDIC and banking agencies' officials and staffs on, recommendations to address those issues, including legislative proposals.
• Acts in an advisory capacity to, and prepares or supervises the preparation of legal opinions for, members of the Board of Directors, the General Counsel and Deputy General Counsels, the Director of the Division Risk Management and Supervision (RMS), and the directors of other divisions and offices and their staff nationwide, as requested, on the laws and regulations governing the activities, operations and structure of insured depository institutions and in connection with the supervision and examination for compliance with applicable laws and regulations. This function can involve the determination of compliance with applicable Federal and State laws and concomitant rights, duties, powers and liabilities of insured depository institutions, their officers, directors, employees and shareholders.
• Incumbent functions as a Senior Counsel, BAU, and with a high degree of independence performs and provides supervisory oversight for the BAU and participates fully with the Assistant General Counsel (AGC), BARAS, in carrying out duties and responsibilities assigned to BAU. Serves as Acting AGC, BARAS in the absence of, and at the direction of, the AGC, BARAS.
• Assists the AGC in supervising the performance of a broad range of highly specialized and technical legal work covering the FDIC's supervision, regulation, examination, insurance, and other functions. Assists the AGC in the proper utilization of the personnel and other resources assigned to BAU.
• Ensures that Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA), employee development, employee performance, and other personnel plans, processes, and programs are executed equitably consistent with Corporate policy, legal requirements, and the mission of the Division; organizes, coordinates, and manages the work of diverse teams of employees by assigning work, developing employee skills, assessing/monitoring employee performance, and promoting inclusion.

At the full performance level, major duties include:

• Serves as an expert at the FDIC responsible for conducting and managing mandated FDIC-sponsored research initiatives that regularly recur with strict deadlines and are of the highest importance to the Corporation.
• Represents the FDIC at academic conferences, government convenings, and public forums in presenting, interpreting, and disseminating findings from mandated research initiatives that inform stakeholder actions that have major impacts on economic inclusion efforts in the United States.
• Collaborate with other researchers at federal agencies, regulatory bodies, and non-governmental organizations to share insights and to promote the pursuit of research questions that produce complementary findings to that of mandated FDIC-sponsored research initiatives and that contribute to a comprehensive body of knowledge to inform economic inclusion efforts.
• Conducts and provides leadership on research, analyses, and evaluation of various Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation internal operations, to help address challenges facing the Corporation and to provide economic advice and counsel used to plan and change internal programs of the Corporation.
• Using appropriate state-of-the-art analytical techniques, develops models and leads development teams in support of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation internal operations.
• Publishes studies in external publications including Working Papers, FDIC Staff Studies, and other FDIC publications, as well as peer-reviewed journals.
• Presents academic-style economic research at seminars and conferences. Provides constructive feedback on the research of colleagues by participating in seminars, discussing papers at conferences, and refereeing for peer-reviewed journals.

Collaborates with other attorneys in the Legal Division in connection with, and analyzing, structuring, drafting and negotiating documentation for issuances, offers and sales of securities and similar instruments; marketing and sales of other financial instruments; mergers and acquisitions of businesses; securitizations, joint ventures and other structured transactions; secured lending transactions; or transactions involving, options, warrants or other derivatives.

Responsible for providing legal advice and guidance on matters relating to commercial and financial products or transactions.

Serves as a subject matter expert and resource within the FDIC Legal Division in one or more of the following subject matters or practice areas: (i) securities law; (ii) law governing the formation, governance and dissolution of corporations, partnerships, trusts and limited liability companies (including subsidiary entities, securitizations ventures, and securitizations); (iii) real estate law and law relating to the acquisition, finance and sale of real property; (iv) commercial and secured lending law; or (v) general contract law.

• Provides project leadership in corporate financial systems related projects. Analyzes the financial impact, cost savings, and improved efficiency and effectiveness of on-going and proposed maintenance and security projects, and presents findings and recommendations.
• Assists in developing procedures, policies, and system solutions and enhancements to accommodate policy or system changes across the Corporation that affect the financial systems or processes and ensures compliance with financial, accounting and information security standards and policies.
• Provides consultation and recommendations to senior management in the evaluation of new or improved financial information systems technology and/or applications software. Researches current or emerging technologies, and determines whether to adopt new releases or updates.
• Leads and conducts functional and technical tests and validations of upgrades, external and internal software releases, DIT mandated testing, disaster recovery, user acceptance testing, contingency planning efforts, enhancements and maintenance for NFE and other financial systems, legacy and external systems that interface with or use NFE data.
• Supports and coordinates financial system interfaces with internal and external applications, batch processing, allocations, and closing processes including, performing activities to open/close accounting periods. Troubleshoots issues and assists with reconciliations and testing to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Develops, performs, and maintains reconciliations of processes to ensure that data and reports are accurate. Creates queries and reports for exception and due diligence monitoring of configuration data elements.

• Provides advice and counsel to all FDIC Divisions and Offices and senior management officials on specific cases and matters. Provides opinions in adversarial proceedings where legal questions posed are of a complex or sensitive nature.
• Provides Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) consultation on specific cases and matters, including contractual, professional liability, commercial, regulatory, liquidation and outside counsel and mediators.
• Designs organizational conflict management systems for all FDIC Divisions and Offices to prevent or manage conflict.
• Researches, monitors and reviews ADR cases, statutes and regulations to keep the FDIC current in its understanding and application of applicable ADR law.
• Designs, delivers, coordinates and evaluates conflict management, ADR, mediation, and negotiation training for all FDIC Divisions and Offices.

• Takes the lead on the negotiation and consummation of complex settlements in cases.
• Oversees and/or plans and executes all aspects of assigned litigation.
• Prepares legal briefs, office memoranda, and other documents on complex or sensitive legal and litigation issues, including those involving questions of first impression and with conflicting precedent that require extensive research and analysis.
• Maintains close communication with outside counsel to ensure compliance, consistency and accuracy of substantive and procedural positions and briefs pending before state and federal courts, nationwide, on behalf of or against the FDIC in any capacity.
• Identifies legal issues related to civil and bankruptcy litigation and conducts legal research.
• Responsible for identifying and managing matters related to commercial litigation that arise from the FDIC’s role as receiver, liquidator, or conservator of failed financial institutions.

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Ankura Disputes & Economics (Trust & Mass Torts) Overview:

The Ankura Disputes & Economics, Trust & Mass Torts practice is commonly engaged to assist financial investigations, litigations and disputes, turnaround and process improvement engagements, and other critical business issues. The Data Analytics team specializes in the efficient identification of relevant and responsive data across clients’ vast internal systems and repositories and works with clients to efficiently extract and effectively analyze client data. The team’s consulting experience involves large, diverse, and often incomplete data sets across client enterprises including financial, accounting, human resources, payroll, and a variety of other business systems. The team collaborates with computer forensics and investigatory experts to assess and respond to both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of problems. A Senior Associate in the Data Analytics practice is responsible for utilizing data analytics and technology skills to provide accounting and finance related consulting services to clients.

The Senior Associate will work with clients – businesses, government entities, and/or law firms – to address their most complex and pressing concerns. The Senior Associate must be capable of applying advanced, strategic approaches to assist clients with complex information management and analysis challenges by combining data analytics techniques, sophisticated technology tools, and information management principles to help clients make well-informed decisions. Ankura provides Associates with the opportunity to work collaboratively on diverse teams with skilled, intelligent, driven, and successful individuals. Ankura is focused on hiring Associates who will serve as the foundation of a growing firm dedicated to its people, culture, and delivering high quality service to clients.

*This is a hybrid role with 1-2 days in the DC office.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

As a Senior Associate, you will be intimately familiar with the clients' big-picture objectives and challenges as well as ingrained in the smallest details of their organization’s data and IT infrastructure.  With this knowledge you will be responsible for designing and executing efficient, innovative analytical solutions to address their issues.  Responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to, the following:

• Coordinating with client contacts to identify, acquire, synthesize, and analyze relevant data

• Identifying the relationships among multiple sources and types of data, and organizing this information to facilitate effective data analysis

• Designing and implementing complex financial models to generate meaningful metrics and/or visual demonstratives

• Analyzing and interpreting historical financial, operational, and transactional data

• Performing the day-to-day client engagement activities, including interaction with client personnel, internal Ankura team members, and other stakeholders involved in the engagement

• Contributing to the overall success of the firm by participating in pitches, developing internal training, and marketing the firm externally to prospective clients

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, economics, statistics, data analytics

• Minimum of 3 years of work experience in a related field

• Experience with Python and/or R in addition to other data analytics languages

• Experience with SAS preferred

• Familiarity with database management and querying tools (e.g., SQL, VBA)

• Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Tableau

• Able to demonstrate excellent communication (written and verbal), mathematical, and organizational skills

• Able to adapt quickly in handling multiple/evolving tasks as a result of new engagements and/or re-prioritized deadlines

• Highly motivated, eager to learn, and able to motivate others

• Able to utilize technology to solve complex problems

• Able to produce high quality and/or final work product under strict deadlines

• Possess strong quantitative and qualitative research and analytical skills

• Possess strong team-oriented personality characteristics: hard-working, thoughtful, and collaborative, with a positive outlook and confidence

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

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Provides consulting services and technology expertise specific to North American Commercial Banking (NACB) deposit product initiatives. Support Senior Technology Officer in managing projects end-to-end within the technology space within the NACB Deposit portfolio, including completing technology intakes and vendor engagement. Liaises with stakeholders to understand problems and opportunities, to facilitate the organization's goals by understanding business vision, objectives, and key performance indicators. Aligns technology requirements and solutions to a real business need, meets essential quality standards, and ensures approval by all relevant stakeholders. Acts as a consultant/project lead to business partners in collaboration with the team in strategy and planning sessions (e.g. multi-year and annual plans), reviews, or inspections to ensure the quality of work products. Promotes new processes and methodologies, emerging technologies, and aligns to the unique project team requirements. Well versed with the PMLC from inception to post-implementation phase, manages overall project budget forecasting/actuals and risk; tracks projects using the BMO tools and adheres to documentation/artifacts standards.

• Acts as a subject matter expert on North American Commercial Banking Deposit Products.

• Provides thought leadership in the development of new ideas, processes and emerging technology.

• Provides strategic input into business decisions as a trusted advisor.

• Recommends business priorities, advises on resource requirements and develops roadmap for strategic execution.

• Lead complex initiatives typically involving multiple business units (including submitting internal technology intakes and vendor engagements).

• Leads and/or represents the project in project team meetings and inter-department forums.

• Defines complex business requirements for NABC Deposit initiatives.

• Breaks down strategic problems, and analyses data and information to provide insights and recommendations.

• Leads change management programs of varying scope and type, including readiness assessments, planning, stakeholder management, execution, evaluation and sustainment of initiatives.

• Presents and communicates at all levels within IT and across businesses / groups.

• Identifies opportunities to strengthen the IT consulting capability (e.g. shares expertise to promote technical development, mentors employees, builds communities of practice and networks across technology).

• Understands and follows a project requirements management plan so that activities and milestones of the project team can be measured against the goals of the plan.

• Facilitates discussions and follows a disciplined approach to plan, elicit, analyze, document, communicate, and manage business requirements with stakeholders; applies a variety of elicitation techniques to probe, challenge, and understand requirements.

• Provides analytical support and insights to identified / assigned user areas to support relative product, channel, and business development initiatives (e.g. product, portfolio, and profitability analytics, and customer analytics).

• Collaborates in root-cause analysis to determine underlying causes and participates in problem resolution.

• Builds exceptional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Liaises with the business and the technology development and support groups.

• Aligns business needs to vision/goals to ensure development teams to translate them into detailed design specifications and code.

• Assess project impact, benefits, and risks when scope changes.

• Communicates and engages across stakeholder groups during construction and delivery of solutions.

• Assesses the quality of supporting documentation, including business and process requirements documents, to ensure proper analysis supports recommendations or demonstrate continued alignment to strategic objectives.

• Develops a deep understanding of organizational complexity to build strong rapport with internal stakeholders for the construction and delivery of the solution.

• Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through benchmarking and/or participation in professional associations.

• Operates at a group/enterprise-wide level and serves as a specialist resource to senior leaders and stakeholders.

• Applies expertise and thinks creatively to address unique or ambiguous situations and to find solutions to problems that can be complex and non-routine.

• Implements changes in response to shifting trends.

• Broader work or accountabilities may be assigned as needed.

Qualifications:

• Typically 7+ years of relevant experience and post-secondary degree in related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Business Analysis and/or Project Manager Accreditation is an asset.

• Knowledge of software development practice, concepts/methodologies (i.e. waterfall, Agile, iterative), and technologies obtained through formal training and/or work experience.

• Knowledge of one or more requirements analysis and problem decomposition techniques.

• Knowledge of technical/business environment (e.g. Microsoft business technologies and applications, relational databases, and SharePoint).

• Understanding of industry standards and standard business capabilities.

• Knowledge of business analysis, project delivery practices and standards across the project lifecycle.

• Possesses a deep understanding and problem solving ability of Information Technology of various complexities.

• Understanding of techniques associated with data modeling, process modeling, and user-centered design within the context of the organizational standards.

• Familiar with business strategy and assessments (i.e. feasibility studies, business cases and/or cost/benefit, project sizing and costing, and current state analysis/needs assessments).

• Seasoned professional with a combination of education, experience and industry knowledge.

• Verbal & written communication skills - In-depth / Expert.

• Analytical and problem solving skills - In-depth / Expert.

• Influence skills - In-depth / Expert.

• Collaboration & team skills; with a focus on cross-group collaboration - In-depth / Expert.

• Able to manage ambiguity.

• Data driven decision making - In-depth / Expert.

Compensation and Benefits:

Pay Type:

The above represents BMO Financial Group’s pay range and type.

Salaries will vary based on factors such as location, skills, experience, education, and qualifications for the role, and may include a commission structure. Salaries for part-time roles will be pro-rated based on number of hours regularly worked. For commission roles, the salary listed above represents BMO Financial Group’s expected target for the first year in this position.

BMO Financial Group’s total compensation package will vary based on the pay type of the position and may include performance-based incentives, discretionary bonuses, as well as other perks and rewards. BMO also offers health insurance, tuition reimbursement, accident and life insurance, and retirement savings plans. To view more details of our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.bmo.com/global/en/Total-Rewards

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As a member of the BMO team you are valued, respected and heard, and you have more ways to grow and make an impact.  We strive to help you make an impact from day one – for yourself and our customers.  We’ll support you with the tools and resources you need to reach new milestones, as you help our customers reach theirs. From in-depth training and coaching, to manager support and network-building opportunities, we’ll help you gain valuable experience, and broaden your skillset.

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