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Brittany Sullivan

West Sacramento

Summary

Legal Operations Manager with expertise in reducing regulatory findings by 65% through effective compliance initiatives. Proficient in contract lifecycle management and data analysis, emphasizing team leadership and training development. Ensures regulatory alignment and fosters strong vendor partnerships.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Legal Operations Manager

CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC
Remote
02.2022 - Current
  • Interpret business requirements to suggest controls in system
  • Policy Development and Implementation
  • Contract Negotiations
  • Compliance Training and Culture Building
  • Respond to Legal inquiries
  • Use and analyze data analytics to assess fraud risks
  • Maintain Legal Vendor Relationships
  • Project Management
  • Draft Contract Amendments and Modifications
  • Manage Contract Lifecycle
  • Extensive Knowledge of Ironclad and Cobblestone
  • Draft Contract Templates
  • Extensive knowledge in State and Federal Regulations
  • Supervise performance of contract conditions
  • Knowledge of contract remedies
  • Knowledge and Experience with contract managing systems
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Access, Excel, Outlook)
  • Meet daily department goals

Legal Professional

Sierra Pacific Mortgage, LLC
Rancho Cordova
06.2012 - 02.2022
  • Utilized SWL to extract and analyze large datasets
  • Create complex queries and joins to support weekly reporting
  • Automate routine data pulls using SQL scripts
  • Use SQL to monitor high-risk transactions and generate alerts for suspicious activity patterns
  • Provide ongoing legal support
  • Knowledge of bank laws and regulations
  • Apply applicable laws and banking regulations to policies.
  • Review banking policies to ensure alignment with laws and regulations
  • Draft and Review MSAs, NDAs and SOWs
  • Redline and Negotiation Tracking
  • Generate Contract templates
  • Generate and update contract agreement templates
  • Extensive Experience in Contract Lifecycle software
  • Extensive Knowledge in CobbleStone software.
  • Analyze law citations to apply to Legal Reviews
  • Vendor onboarding/offboarding
  • Review and Analyze contracts based on business requirements
  • Maintain friendly and professional relationships with business partners
  • Correspond with legal team about reoccurring issues.
  • Special projects.

Compliance Manager

Sierra Pacific Mortgage Company, Inc.
Folsom
07.2010 - 06.2012
  • Communicate effectively any findings to key personnel in other departments.
  • Attend compliance board meetings
  • Provide Training and Ongoing support to staff and business partners.
  • Review and update risk assessment and scoping process
  • Train newly hired employees and existing personnel.
  • Supervise and lead team of 5 to 7 staff.
  • Work cooperatively with, and maintain effective communication with colleagues and employees.
  • Present clear, objective, concise reports in a timely manner to management.
  • Ensure policies and procedures are aligned with required regulations.
  • Extensive knowledge of TRID, RESPA, TILA, ECOA, ESIGN and HMDA
  • Monitor company complaints and prepare reports for manager meetings
  • Conduct Risk Assessments and test controls
  • Approve/Deny Closing agent and Broker applications
  • Enter new Qualified Individuals and Executive Officers in NMLS
  • Extensive experience in Power BI and Vendor Contracts

Collateral/HMDA Team Lead

Sierra Pacific Mortgage Company, Inc.
Folsom
11.2008 - 07.2010
  • Demonstrate possession of the required knowledge, skills, and abilities in Information Technology
  • Microsoft office
  • Test department controls
  • Junior Underwriting and Quality Control
  • Extensive Knowledge of Consumer Access and RiskExec
  • Monitor and Respond to compliance inbox messages

Education

Juris Doctorate -

Lincoln Law School of Sacramento
Sacramento, CA

Bachelor of Science -

Sacramento State College
Sacramento, CA

Skills

  • Spearheaded implementation of enterprise-wide compliance program that reduced regulatory findings by 65% within 18 months
  • Create legal approved contract templates
  • Led a team of 12 compliance professionals and established a centralized monitoring system, increasing reporting efficiency by 40%
  • Developed compliance training curriculum, resulting in a 98% completion rate
  • Automate routine and complex data pulls using SQL scripts, reducing manual reporting time by 40%
  • Contract negotiation
  • Data analysis
  • Project management
  • Policy development
  • SQL scripting
  • Risk assessment
  • Contract lifecycle management
  • Budget development and management

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Legal Operations Manager

CrossCountry Mortgage, LLC
02.2022 - Current

Legal Professional

Sierra Pacific Mortgage, LLC
06.2012 - 02.2022

Compliance Manager

Sierra Pacific Mortgage Company, Inc.
07.2010 - 06.2012

Collateral/HMDA Team Lead

Sierra Pacific Mortgage Company, Inc.
11.2008 - 07.2010

Juris Doctorate -

Lincoln Law School of Sacramento

Bachelor of Science -

Sacramento State College
Brittany Sullivan