National Life Group is hiring: Life & Annuity Compliance Advisor - Advertising G

Life & Annuity Compliance Advisor - Advertising Guidance Team

Job Category: Legal

Requisition Number: LIFEA003639

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• Posted: January 29, 2025
• Full-Time
• Hybrid
• Salary Range: $82,000 USD to $153,000 USD

Locations

Vermont Campus
One National Life Dr
Montpelier, VT 05604, USA

Company Summary

Come join one of America’s fastest growing insurance companies with a stable history of 175 years. At National Life Group (“NLG”), we offer a flexible work environment with opportunity for growth. As a mission-driven business, our promises are as important as the products we sell. We encourage our associates to live our values: Do Good. Be Good. Make Good.

Our mission extends beyond the insurance and annuities policies that we sell. Our cause is also to make the world a better place through grants from our charitable foundation, paid time for our employees to volunteer, environmentally sustainable and healthy work sites, and events that promote the work of nonprofits in our own backyard.

We invite you to explore what we have to offer and to join our cause.

Role Summary

Are you looking for the next step in your Compliance career with the opportunity to join Life & Annuity Compliance? We are seeking a talented individual who is passionate about continuing to grow in their Compliance profession by applying extensive expertise and in-depth knowledge to guide actions in alignment with company objectives.

The successful candidate will become part of the Advertising Guidance team (“AGT”) and offer creative and effective solutions to challenges when reviewing and responding to advertising materials submitted by home office employees and/or appointed agents with affiliated and independent distribution. In this role you will have the opportunity to use refined communication skills to network with key contacts across teams, departments, and functions.

As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to apply the skills you have already gained, while continuing to grow your business and compliance knowledge, as you take the next step in your Compliance career journey. The main products handled by the Company are fixed life insurance, including indexed universal life insurance, along with living benefits, and fixed annuities, including fixed indexed annuities.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Apply extensive experience and professional knowledge to creatively and effectively resolve submitted advertising materials, including social media and web-based, within internally established time standards.
  • Execution – 60%
  • Tactical – 40%
• Provide input on complex AGT processes evaluating variable factors, establishing methods and procedures for new assignments, and serving as a role model for junior colleagues.
• Develop and oversee routine operational plans, with work reviewed upon completion.
• Apply independent judgment to meet ambiguous demands, aligning with Law & Compliance objectives and adapting techniques for results.
• Understand interrelationships of disciplines, contribute to cross-disciplinary processes and policies.
• Lead an area of accountability or manage a program for Life & Annuity Compliance, including reviewing the work of peers and more junior colleagues.
• Proactively apply NLG values and Servant Leadership Tenets and lead by example demonstrating principles to peers and junior colleagues.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive and relevant combination of compliance and/or life insurance and annuity work experience.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to provide exceptional customer service through empathy, listening, and understanding client needs.
• Ability to independently understand, interpret, and communicate complex compliance topics.
• Demonstrate tact and professionalism and the ability to interact with individuals and leaders at all levels of the Company, the Field, and with the public on sensitive matters.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, with a high degree of accuracy.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality on sensitive matters.
• Strong organizational, time management, qualitative, and analytical skills.
• Set short-term goals (1 year or less) aligned with Law & Compliance objectives for AGT.
• Effectively work in a team environment, closely collaborating with business partners.
• All other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ Compliance-related experience
• LOMA certifications, specifically the AIRC designation
• FINRA Series 7 & 24 registrations or must obtain within 1 year of hire.
• Demonstrated extensive, in-depth product knowledge of fixed life insurance and annuities

The base compensation range represents the low and high end of the range for this position. Actual compensation will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to qualifications, skills, competencies, location, and experience. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees.

Other rewards may include an annual bonus, quarterly bonuses, commissions, and other long-term incentive compensation, depending on the position. National Life offers a competitive total rewards package which includes: a 401(k) retirement plan match; medical, dental, and vision insurance; a company funded wellness account for director and below employees; 10 paid holidays; a generous paid time off plan (22 days of combined time-off for non-exempt employees and exempt employees have discretion in managing their time, including scheduling time off in the normal course of business, but in no event will exempt employees receive less sick time than required by state or local law); 6 weeks of paid parental leave; and 6 weeks of paid family leave after a year of full-time employment.

National Life is accepting applications for this role on an ongoing basis and the role remains open until filled.

National Life Group is a trade name of National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, VT – founded in 1848, Life Insurance Company of the Southwest, Addison, TX – chartered in 1955, and their affiliates. Each company of National Life Group is solely responsible for its own financial condition and contractual obligations. Life Insurance Company of the Southwest is not an authorized insurer in New York and does not conduct insurance business in New York. Equity Services, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC, is a Broker/Dealer and Registered Investment Adviser affiliate of National Life Insurance Company. All other entities are independent of the companies of National Life Group.