Mortgage Regulatory Counsel
CrossCountry Mortgage (CCM) is the nation's number one distributed retail mortgage lender with more than 9,000 employees operating over 700 branches and servicing loans across all 50 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico. Our company has been recognized ten times on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private businesses and has received many awards for our standout culture.
A culture where you can grow! CCM has created an exceptional culture driving employee engagement, exceeding employee expectations, and directly impacting company success. At our core, our entrepreneurial spirit empowers every employee to be who they are to help us move forward together. You’ll get unwavering support from all departments and total transparency from the top down.
CCM offers eligible employees a competitive compensation plan and a robust benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, as well as a 401K. We also offer company-provided short-term disability, an employee assistance program, and a wellness program.
Position Overview:
The Mortgage Regulatory Counsel supports compliance-related system and process initiatives by providing legal interpretation, guidance, and review of mortgage regulatory requirements. This role serves as the primary legal resource for fees, disclosure, document, and related document-vendor matters, while also supporting broader mortgage regulatory research and analysis as needed. This role partners closely with Compliance, Technology, Operations, and other stakeholders to ensure legal requirements are translated accurately into business requirements, testing expectations, and compliant system behavior. The Mortgage Regulatory Counsel is responsible for evaluating whether implemented system configurations, document logic, workflows, and outputs satisfy applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Job Responsibilities:
• Serve as the primary legal resource for fee, disclosure, document, and document‑vendor matters by interpreting applicable federal and state mortgage regulations and providing guidance on fee treatment, disclosure timing and content, document triggers and packages, and related workflow requirements.
• Conduct legal research and analysis on mortgage regulatory questions, including questions outside the fee and disclosure lane, as assigned.
• Turn legal requirements into practical guidance and decision points that Compliance, QA, Technology, and business teams can use for requirements, testing, and implementation.
• Review and approve regulatory requirements, interpretations, and legal positions prepared by Compliance or other stakeholders before implementation where appropriate.
• Evaluate whether proposed system configurations, document logic, disclosures, workflows, and related outputs satisfy regulatory requirements and internal legal interpretations.
• Review testing results, issue findings, and supporting evidence to determine whether observed system behavior or document output meets legal and regulatory expectations.
• Determine pass/fail conclusions, identify follow-up legal questions, and clarify when requirement changes, additional testing, or configuration updates are needed.
• Partner with Technology, Operations, Compliance, and external vendors to help resolve questions related to legal requirements, system behavior, and document generation or delivery.
• Support implementation and ongoing maintenance of document-vendor related legal requirements, including review of how disclosures and documents are generated, triggered, or populated within the loan origination system.
• Document legal interpretations, decisions, issue resolutions, and review conclusions in a clear and organized manner to support implementation, audit, examination, and internal review needs.
• Provide timely legal input on open issues, exceptions, and questions so that compliance-related workstreams can continue to move forward.
• Identify emerging legal issues, gaps, or inconsistencies in requirements, docu