Legal Entity Governance Manager

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We are seeking an experienced leader to oversee legal entity governance and compliance activities across a large, complex organization. This role is an individual contributor and will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a robust governance framework that promotes accountability, regulatory compliance, operational efficiency, and effective risk management across the company's legal entity structure.

The successful candidate will partner closely with Legal, Accounting, Finance, Tax, Compliance, Human Resources, Corporate Secretary, and external advisors to ensure legal entity obligations are fulfilled and governance processes operate effectively. This role provides visibility to senior leadership and plays a key part in driving governance strategy, strengthening controls, improving reporting, and supporting the ongoing evolution of the company's legal entity governance framework.

Key responsibilities

• Governance, oversight, and reporting: Lead the ongoing development and execution of the legal entity governance framework, including process standards, ownership clarity, governance forums, escalation protocols, and reporting to senior stakeholders. Develop periodic legal entity governance reporting, including the status of compliance obligations, audit completion, entity lifecycle activity and open risks.

• Entity lifecycle management: Manage the creation, maintenance, and dissolution of legal entities. Identify opportunities to simplify the legal entity structure.

• Stakeholder collaboration: Serve as a central governance partner across Legal, Corporate Secretary, Accounting, Finance, Tax, HR, Compliance, and outside counsel to align ownership, resolve process gaps, and ensure legal entity obligations are completed in a timely and accurate manner.

• Risk management: Proactively identify and manage compliance issues that could lead to penalties or operational disruptions. Design and maintain controls, procedures, and documentation to support consistent, auditable execution of legal entity compliance and governance activities.

• Compliance tracking: Collaborate across groups to ensure timely filing of annual reports, license renewals, and other jurisdictional requirements across all entities and locations.

• Audit tracking: Partner with accounting stakeholders to ensure timely filing of financial statements and audit completion.

• Revenue agreement governance: Oversee assigned governance processes, including the centralized capture and monitoring of new revenue agreements, ensuring complete and accurate documentation and periodic reviews to support data integrity and compliance.

Scope & Influence

This position requires regular partnership with VP and SVP-level leaders across Legal, Corporate Secretary, Accounting, Finance, Tax, Compliance, Human Resources, and other business functions to support the effective governance and administration of the company's legal entity structure.

The successful candidate will be expected to influence outcomes across multiple stakeholder groups without direct authority, drive accountability for legal entity obligations, identify and escalate governance and compliance risks, and support decision-making related to legal entity structure, process ownership, and governance strategy. This role also provides visibility to senior leadership through governance reporting, risk assessments, and recommendations focused on strengthening controls, improving transparency, and enhancing operational effectiveness.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Legal Studies, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

• Eight or more years of progressive experience in governance, compliance, accounting, finance, risk management, legal operations, corporate administration, or a related field within a publicly traded company, financial services organization, or other highly regulated industry.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and business functions.

• Strong understanding of governance, compliance, risk management, and internal control principles.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex issues, assess risks, develop practical solutions, and drive execution.

• Strong communication and relationship management skills, including the ability to influence outcomes, build consensus across a matrixed organization, and effectively communicate with senior leaders and executives.

• Experience with legal entity governance and lifecycle activities, including entity formation, maintenance, restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, dissolution, and related compliance obligations.

• Experience designing, implementing, or overseeing governance, compliance, risk management, or internal control frameworks within a complex organization.

• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders, drive organizational change, and achieve results through collaboration.

Location Expectations:

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

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• 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

Review our full benefits available by employment status here.

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. The E-Verify program is an Internet-based employment eligibility verification system operated by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Learn more about the E-Verify program.

U.S. Bank will consider qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records for employment. U.S. Bank conducts background checks consistent with applicable local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act as well as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. U.S. Bank is subject to, and conducts background checks consistent with the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA). In addition, certain positions may also be subject to the requirements of FINRA, NMLS registration, Reg Z, Reg G, OFAC, the NFA, the FCPA, the Bank Secrecy Act, the SAFE Act, and/or federal guidelines applicable to an agreement, such as those related to ethics, safety, or operational procedures.

Applicants must be able to comply with U.S. Bank policies and procedures including the Code of Ethics and Business Conduct and related workplace conduct and safety policies.

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