Corporate Paralegal

Anza Mortgage Insurance Corporation is empowering homeownership through credit risk protection.

Our Mission

Our mission is to empower homeownership by mitigating credit risk through mortgage insurance. We strive to leverage technology and operational excellence to deliver exceptional service to our lender and servicer partners, offer reliable and secure capital support for our insureds, generate leading returns for our shareholders, and foster a fulfilling, rewarding environment for our team members.

Technology Forward

We differentiate ourselves by designing, architecting, and developing our operating systems in-house. This unique approach creates a platform tailored to the needs of today's housing market. It positions us to achieve unparalleled processing efficiency and adaptability to changing industry standards and customer demands. Fundamentally, we are a process optimization company that harnesses technology to revolutionize the mortgage insurance experience and fulfill our mission.

Customer Centric

We dedicate ourselves to provide competitive pricing tailored to risk profiles. Our commitment to our partners goes beyond pricing and product offerings. We prioritize a customer-centric approach focused on meeting customer needs and enhancing their experience. This approach is underpinned by transparency throughout the process and prompt issue resolution.

Risk Management Excellence

Risk Management is our foundation. Our risk management framework uses advanced technology, innovative strategies, and modern modeling techniques to manage risks ranging from credit risk to information security risk. Our customers and partners can rely on us to handle their information with the utmost care and responsibility. Our dedication to risk management is designed to reassure our partners about our stability and reliability.

About The Role

The Corporate Paralegal is a dynamic and tech‑savvy professional who plays a critical role in advancing the Legal Department’s priorities. This position goes beyond traditional paralegal work by combining expertise in corporate governance, compliance, and contract management with a forward‑looking focus on legal operations and technology. Acting as both a trusted legal resource and an operational strategist, the Corporate Paralegal leverages modern tools and systems to streamline processes, enhance efficiency, and enable the Legal Department to operate as a high‑impact business partner.

The ideal candidate is not only detail‑oriented and highly organized but also curious, adaptable, and eager to adopt new technologies that transform how legal services are delivered. This role is perfect for someone who thrives at the intersection of law, business, and innovation.

What You’ll Do

• Support board and committee meetings, including preparing agendas, materials, and minutes.
• Maintain corporate records and assist with transactions and due diligence.
• Oversee contract review and management processes, ensuring consistency and compliance.
• Act as a liaison between Legal and business teams, as well as outside counsel.
• Manage department workflow, calendars, and special projects.
• Track regulatory developments and assist with compliance initiatives.
• Facilitate clear communication and exercise judgment on when to escalate issues.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Governance & Recordkeeping

• Support Board of Directors and committee meetings, including drafts of agendas, materials, resolutions, corporate documents, and minutes.
• Maintain corporate records (minute books, stock ledgers, organizational documents) for the parent company and its subsidiaries.
• Assist with corporate and capital market transactions, including due diligence and documentation.
• Manage calendars, schedule prep meetings, coordinate time and responsibilities for all Board and committee meetings for management and director participants.
  
  

Contract Review & Management

• Serve as primary administrator of the Legal Department’s contract review process, including receiving requests, prioritizing, assigning for review, gathering and communicating information, and coordinating execution of final agreements.
• Conduct initial reviews of NDAs and clauses in agreements against preferred wording to streamline the attorney-review process.
• Partner directly with reviewing attorneys and internal business units to facilitate timely and effective contract reviews and negotiations.
• Track renewals, terminations and other key dates for all contracts in the organization's vendor management system and coordinate with business owners, consistent with vendor and contract management policies.
• Implement and optimize contract management policies, procedures and workflows, develop templates and preferred clause libraries to ensure consistency and compliance, optimizing the organization’s technology tools to gain efficiencies.
  
  

Legal Research, Regulatory and Legislative Tracking

• Conduct legal research and summarize findings.
• Monitor regulatory and legislative developments and assist with policy implementation.
  
  

Strategic & Operational Support

• Coordinate calendars, deliverables, and special projects for the Legal Department, ensuring alignment and momentum.
• Anticipate roadblocks and proactively implement solutions.
• Maintain resource libraries and evaluate new tools to improve efficiency.
• Manage Legal Department workflow, priorities, and deadlines using modern project‑management tools.
• Prepare reports, presentations, correspondence, and other materials in support of department deliverables.
• Develop and maintain the Legal Department intranet site.
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 4-6 years of corporate paralegal experience, ideally in insurance or financial services.
• Strong background in drafting governance documents (agendas, resolutions, charter updates, etc.) and contract lifecycle administration.
• Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.
• Adept at adopting, implementing, and leveraging legal operations and enterprise productivity technologies (e.g., contract management and workflow automation).
• Excellent analytical, organizational, communication, and project management skills.
• Proficiency with Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Gmail), Confluence and Asana or similar tools.