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MetLife Legal Auditor in Bridgewater, New Jersey
Role Title: Legal Auditor
Hybrid role, 200 Park Ave, NYC.
(Bridgewater, NJ candidates will need to travel to NYC during an audit, a few times that week.)
Role Value Proposition:
Internal Audit (IA) is an independent, global organization that plays an important role in partnering with the business to ensure that management anticipates, recognizes, and appropriately manages risks. We protect MetLife and our stakeholders through meaningful independent assurance and advice while advocating for risk management and internal controls.
We are looking for a lawyer who would be excited to join a dynamic and highly collaborative audit team. The lawyer is responsible for performing audits of legal and compliance management processes by contributing his/her expertise in legal processes. The individual should be comfortable sharing their ideas, building client relationships, and delivering high quality and impactful results to stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
This role will serve as the legal subject matter expert to the audit team on legal processes, including:
End-to-end litigation management (e.g., managing outside counsel, settlement negotiations)
e-discovery obligations (managing legal holds, custodian interviews and appropriate preservations, collections, and review)
Litigation reserving and disclosures.
Contract management
Legal advisory and documentation
Regulatory reporting and filings
This role will also be expected to:
Stay up to date with changes to legislation, particularly in relation to laws, rules and regulations that directly affect MetLife and the industry.
Assess key risks and control structure of legal processes across the enterprise.
Identify key legal, compliance, and regulatory risks for the company and advise on procedures to prevent/detect adverse effects on operations.
Provide subject matter knowledge to Internal Audit associates in developing audit scope and approach that focus on the key risks for individual audit engagements.
Prepare audit deliverables that meet departmental and professional standards of quality.
Draft and communicate audit findings to management, provide recommendations on action plans, and assist in drafting of audit reports.
Maintain ongoing relationships with key business contacts to stay current on new laws, rules, regulations.
Essential Business Experience and Technical Skills
Required:
JD degree from accredited law school and excellent academic credentials
4-8 years of experience reflecting a record of accomplishment
Excellent analytical and organizational skills
Superior oral and written communications skills
Demonstrated record of attention to detail, sense of urgency, ability to handle substantial workload effectively
Willingness to partner with colleagues to contribute to success of Internal Audit and MetLife
Ability to thrive as a team member and individual contributor in a high-performance culture
Ability to provide creative input in culture of continuous improvement with respect to policies and procedures of Internal Audit and our business partners.
Preferred:
· Experience in regulatory roles or interactions with regulatory bodies
· Admission to New York and federal bar