Associate General Counsel - Impact Finance

Associate General Counsel - Impact Finance

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At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever‑growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career.

Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

• Provide excellent advice and guidance on a variety of legal matters to support business decisions.
• Build trusting relationships with business units, enabling well‑informed decision making.
• Lead legal support for U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance (IF), aligning resources and competencies to optimize efficiency and support business growth.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to IF leadership, manage outside counsel engagement on transactions and litigation, negotiate and oversee complex transactions, and advise on workout and foreclosure issues as necessary.
• Collaborate to deliver compliant, pragmatic, and business‑ready guidance across IF’s key product areas:
  Affordable Housing, Community Finance Solutions, Environmental Finance, and Tax Credit Syndications.

• Licensed by and in good standing with the appropriate state bar association or other appropriate state attorney licensing authority.

• 12+ years of in‑house, financial services institution, government or law firm experience in structuring tax credit investments and/or experience as project finance or structured finance attorney.
• Experience documenting and negotiating tax credit investments, structured finance or other commercial transactions, including commercial loan and tax credit documentation.
• Demonstrated experience with state and federal tax credit laws and regulations and commercial lending laws.
• Knowledge of regulatory environment applicable to community development or sustainable finance activities of financial institutions.
• Advise on legal and regulatory issues impacting affordable housing, community finance, environmental finance, and tax credit syndications.
• Proven ability to manage outside counsel and legal budgets effectively.
• Well‑developed leadership abilities and management experience.
• Strategic thinker with experience in process improvement and excellent communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex legal concepts into actionable business guidance across a diverse portfolio of investments and loans.
• Ability to influence and build relationships across business and legal teams as well as external industry groups.
• Diligent, detail‑oriented, proactive and team‑oriented with the desire to work on a broad variety of subject matters.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and exercise independent judgment and discretion.
• Interest and curiosity with respect to the Bank’s business and operations.
• Experience developing new products and services in a highly‑regulated environment.

This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short‑term and long‑term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer‑funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.

U.S. Bank is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or veteran status, and other factors protected under applicable law.

E-Verify: U.S. Bank participates in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security E-Verify program in all facilities located in the United States and certain U.S. territories.

Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.