Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory

Job description

Render senior-level legal advice and support in connection with the complete life cycle of the adoption of new regulatory initiatives, and serve as subject matter resource in one or more areas of legal expertise. This is senior-level professional work in which incumbents are developing their roles, increasing their skills, assuming increased responsibility, and working under general guidance. Essential Job Functions: - With limited oversight, advise the Board of Governors and FINRA advisory committees with respect to complex and sensitive regulatory initiatives and rule changes under consideration by the Board. - Assist in briefing and communicating complex and sensitive regulatory initiatives to senior executives of FINRA. Must be able to provide such analysis under urgent deadlines. - Serve as a source of legal expertise within FINRA in many subject areas and provide expert advice on questions in these subject areas. - Prepare Board materials that contain sophisticated analyses and discussions of competing policy or political considerations necessary for the informed judgment of the issues by the Board. - Review and draft new rule proposals with greater independence; gather and i...