Paralegal

Position: Paralegal

Department: Legal

Reports To: Senior Assistant General Counsel

Location: 7450 Campus Drive, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Remote: NO

Exempt: NO

Compensation & Benefits: $27 – $30 per hour depending on experience

Mortgage Solutions of Colorado, LLC d/b/a Mortgage Solutions Financial (“MSF”) offers a comprehensive benefit package and PTO (paid time off) for eligible employees. The benefit package includes Health, Dental and Vision Insurance, options to participate in a Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Account, Life and AD&D coverage, voluntary Supplemental Life, voluntary Short-Term, Long-Term Disability and Supplemental insurance. In addition, eligible employees have the option to participate in a company retirement plan.

About MSF

MSF is a national mortgage lender based in Colorado Springs. MSF strongly believes every client should be served with integrity, dignity, and respect. Without compromise, MSF is committed to providing loans that are in the best interest of our clients, not our bottom line. We will continue to educate the community by empowering our clients to make responsible and informed fiscal decisions that result in greater financial peace of mind.

Role Overview

This position is responsible for providing comprehensive legal, compliance, and administrative support across the Chief Administrative Officer's oversight areas, including corporate governance, contract management, and litigation tracking. The role ensures strict adherence to established policies, procedures, and business directives while accurately maintaining the company's centralized filing systems, minute books, and litigation records. The ideal candidate will leverage strong analytical and problem-solving skills to review complex legal agreements, address unprecedented regulatory questions, and collaborate effectively with in-house counsel and leadership with minimal supervision.

Essential Functions:

• Support any areas in the Chief Administrative Officer’s oversight to include General Counsel, Contracts, Facilities, Human Resources, Third-Party Origination, Compliance, and others.
• Utilize document and file management system(s) to accurately maintain company contracts and other documents/records in a centralized filing location for the convenience of in-house counsel.
• Review and revise leases and contracts against established checklists, policies, procedures, and business directives.
• Monitor litigation matters in which the company is involved and provide up-to-date status reports to in-house counsel and leadership.
• Maintain records pertaining to litigation in the company's document and file management system(s) and assist in-house counsel in complying with all deadlines.
• Assist the General Counsel with corporate governance and housekeeping matters.
• Draft company resolutions to document actions/decisions taken by management and maintain the Minute Book in an up-to-date and accessible manner.
• Organize company policies in both written and electronic forms.
• Prepare borrower correspondence to address escalated customer advice matters.
• Exercise flexibility and ingenuity in addressing legal and compliance questions without precedent.
• Undertake other matters as directed by the legal and compliance teams.

Knowledge Skills and Abilities

• Legal & Operational Comprehension: Ability to read and understand legal terms, interpret their meaning, and overlay it effectively onto everyday work processes. Working knowledge of mortgage lending systems and the overall loan process.
• Technical Proficiency: Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite, the internet, and document/file management software.
• Analytical & Problem-Solving: Customer service, problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills. Ability to drill down through finite details and return reliable answers.
• Communication & Judgment: Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong decision-making abilities backed by the highest value system.
• Autonomy & Adaptability: Ability to work independently with minimal supervision. Demonstrates flexibility and ingenuity when handling unprecedented questions.
• Core Values: Continuous demonstration of core values: Connection, Respect, Agile, Revolutionary, Communication, and Resilient.

Experience & Education

• Required Experience: Prior paralegal experience specifically within the mortgage, banking, real estate, finance, or servicing industries.
• Paralegal Certification OR a minimum of four (4) years of Paralegal experience.

Physical Requirements

• Stationary Position: Prolonged periods sitting or standing at a desk and working on a computer.
• Mobility: Occasional movement inside the office to access machinery or visit other workstations.
• Lifting & Physical Demands: Occasional lifting up to 10 pounds. Must be able to push, pull, bend at the knees and waist, twist at the waist, raise and hold arms overhead, turn head/neck/shoulders, and grasp tools or office items with hands as needed throughout the workday.

MSF is an equal opportunity employer. All candidates for employment are considered equally and no distinction is made on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, genetic information, or veteran status.  MSF is also committed to providing qualified applicants and employees reasonable accommodation, when necessary, to enable the individuals to complete the application process and/or perform the essential functions of the job. An applicant and/or employee requiring reasonable accommodation to perform any essential job function should contact Human Resources.

Salary : $27 - $30