Legal analyst Jobs in New York, NY

Company Overview

We are on a mission to ensure that the financial system is routing money to the best ideas while helping people build and protect their long-term financial health. Our platform empowers financial advisors to learn about, build personalized strategies around, and invest in (previously inaccessible) private investments to help them grow their businesses and improve the outcomes of their clients.

The market for private investments is expected to grow by $2 trillion in the next decade, but remains largely inaccessible to the majority of non-institutional investors. Our platform provides exclusive educational content, personalized guidance, bespoke investment options, and a streamlined investment process to help make these investments more accessible than ever before.

About the Role

Opto Investments operates at the intersection of investment management, technological innovation, and private markets investing, and transforming our industry drives everything we do. We are seeking an experienced legal analyst to principally work on private fund formation, complex legal project management, regulatory compliance initiatives and to generally support the legal team in its broad array of responsibilities.

This role calls for technical aptitude and a willingness and desire to integrate technology and efficiency into traditional legal functions. The nature of the work demands a creative and driven individual that is comfortable taking ownership of large projects and collaborating with other internal and external teams, including Operations, Investment Management, Product and Engineering. The ideal candidate will have experience in a law firm, investment firm or technology company, substantive project management experience, and exceptional communication and organizational skills. This is a high-exposure role, instrumental in driving Opto's business and requires a high level of attention to detail and initiative to infuse technology in our internal processes and external products and services.

Your day-to-day will include :

• Working directly with legal team to draft, finalize and maintain private fund offering materials and associated documentation.
• Project managing complex assignments and regulatory initiatives across multiple stakeholders from start to finish.
• Partner with Advisory Services, Investment Management and Operations teams to create efficiencies in internal legal processes and completion of projects and deliverables.
• Partner with Engineering and Product teams on implementation of technological solutions to improve efficiency and legal process.
• Performing a variety of legal research and due diligence review and analysis regarding securities laws, rules and regulations and other issues related to the company's business.
• Acting as liaison between company, outside counsel, vendors and other internal and external parties.
• Preparing and filing legal documents with appropriate entities, as required.

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Compensation and Benefits

Opto has a high bar for talent, and we are committed to building the best teams possible. Candidates shall not be subjected to discrimination based on race, citizenship, religion, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, sensory, mental, or physical disability, or any other characteristic.

The successful candidate for this role can expect a generous compensation and benefits package. The cash salary range for this role is 120,000-170,000 dependent on skills, experience and expected contribution.

All full time employees at Opto enjoy :

This position is based primarily onsite in our New York City office.