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Ankura is a team of excellence founded on innovation and growth.

Practice Overview:

Ankura's large team of long-time licensing officers and former regulators has extensive collective experience obtaining and maintaining thousands of regulatory licenses for Fintech companies in areas like 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 team has serviced, worked at, or supervised a statistically significant portion of all licensed U.S. money transmitters. Ankura provides a fully outsourced solution in all key components of obtaining and remaining licensed as well as support during the post- license examination process.

Ankura's team of compliance professionals and former regulators provides expert guidance from the day of licensure through reporting, annual renewals, and all state regulatory examinations. Once a company is licensed, Ankura can serve as the overall state regulatory manager in the U.S. to ensure compliance with a myriad of state rules and regulations. Our compliance professionals can support all regulatory reporting and licensing requirements and will keep clients abreast of regulatory changes.

We are seeking a Associate, License Maintenance, 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.

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 license maintenance, exam support, and services related to remaining in good standing with states under the direction of project lead;

• Supporting the client base and team on state regulatory, exam and licensing matters under the direction of project lead;

• Supporting the team on specialized state projects such as, transfers of control and regulatory remediation 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.

Requirements:

• At least 2 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 person and 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.

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in California, Colorado, or New York, Ankura is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the said markets and considers a broad range of factors including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. The range does not include additional benefits outside of salary. At Ankura, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each role. A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range is between $65K-155K; this range is not a promise of a particular wage.

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