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Anaiya Underwood

Los Angeles,CA

Summary

Product and client-focused professional with a history of meeting company needs with consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure, and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Legal Operations Specialist

Mercury Technologies
San Francisco
03.2024 - Current

Company Overview: Online business banking stack for startups, personal banking, and bill pay:

  • Acted as the organization's SME in the law enforcement response process, managed shareable data for civil and government subpoenas, levies, receiverships, and search warrants.
  • Onboarded vendors and ensured that matters, invoices, timekeeper rates, and processes for system updates were managed.
  • Tracked legal metrics, outside counsel spend, and data requests for actionable insights.
  • Coordinated cross-functionally between Legal, Finance, Procurement, and Compliance/Risk teams.
  • Interviewed prospective candidates to ensure fitness with the team's needs.
  • Helped implement intake and ticketing systems, like Zendesk and Jira, that boosted efficiency and streamlined internal processes.
  • Providing intake systems, eBilling software, eDiscovery, and self-serve tools, and self-serve tools like Chat GPT.

Senior Risk Onboarding Specialist

Mercury Technologies
San Francisco
09.2023 - 03.2024
  • Delivered streamlined solutions to workflow issues, and suggested automation processes as needed.
  • Built learning and development, training, and support wikis for new hires.
  • Interviewed prospective candidates to ensure fitness with the team's needs.
  • Conducted EDD reviews on high-risk customer applications, including investigations into beneficial ownership, negative news, politically exposed persons, and other risk profiles.

Risk Onboarding Specialist

Mercury Technologies
San Francisco
02.2022 - 09.2023
  • Provided a secure onboarding experience for founders, executed fraud prevention, KYC, and EDD procedures, to provide accessible banking services.
  • Ensured applicant business activities were compliant with the FinCEN regulations.
  • Collaborated with the Risk and KYC Operations teams to escalate any high-risk findings.

Operations Specialist- Contract

adMixt Inc
Denver
07.2021 - 02.2022

Company Overview: An e-commerce marketing agency building optimized ad campaigns:

  • Supported the strategic goals determined by the paid media team through research, SEO, content moderation, and vendor management.

User Operations Specialist

Snapdocs, Inc.
Denver
11.2020 - 07.2021

Company Overview: E-closing platform simplifying the mortgage process:

  • Streamlined and automated document processing to ensure smooth transactions for priority lenders.
  • Met SLAs by classifying and annotating documents according to lender specifications.
  • Responded to inquiries from stakeholders, lenders, settlement agents, and customers via ticket systems like Jira and Zendesk.
  • Vetted and verified notary applicants.
  • E-closing platform simplifying the mortgage process.

Case Manager

Marrick Medical Finance
Denver
08.2019 - 10.2020

Company Overview: Healthcare network and financial support for PI investigation cases:

  • Managed approximately 130 patient cases and maintained accurate client files.
  • Prepared materials as needed for civil litigation
  • Streamlined the underwriting processes by drafting, proofreading and updating case progression/ treatment plans
  • Worked with clients, medical providers, outside counsel, and insurance agencies to improve day to day legal operations
  • Healthcare network and financial support for PI investigation cases.

Office Assistant- Content Manager

University of Kansas
Lawrence
09.2017 - 05.2019

Organization Overview: Language and Culture Department at the University of Kansas:

  • Developed persuasive content for social media and web platforms to support the department's mission
  • Efficiently managed office calendars, confidential records, new major sign-ups, and post mail.
  • Language and Culture Department at the University of Kansas.

Education

B.A. - Creative Writing & Political Science

University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
05.2019

Skills

  • Legal Operations
  • Contract Management
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Partner Communications
  • AML/ EDD reviews
  • Risk Mitigation
  • CRM
  • Redlining
  • Copywriting
  • SQL
  • Zip
  • Salesforce
  • GSuite
  • Adobe
  • Notion
  • Trello
  • Canva
  • SimpleLegal
  • Slack
  • Ironclad
  • DocuSign
  • Zoom
  • JIRA & Asana
  • PACER
  • GitHub
  • Okta
  • LexisNexis
  • Relativity
  • AWS/ S3
  • MacOS
  • Dato
  • CardIO
  • Metabase

Affiliations

  • Awarded high honors and distinction in the English Major at the University of Kansas
  • Completed Outreach Internship at the City Manager’s Office of Lawrence, KS from Nov 2017- Nov 2018
  • Administered programs and policies for the City Commission that showcased expertise in equity and growth initiatives through research, and data analysis
  • Co-Founded a Pre Law Student Association group at the University of Kansas

Timeline

Legal Operations Specialist

Mercury Technologies
03.2024 - Current

Senior Risk Onboarding Specialist

Mercury Technologies
09.2023 - 03.2024

Risk Onboarding Specialist

Mercury Technologies
02.2022 - 09.2023

Operations Specialist- Contract

adMixt Inc
07.2021 - 02.2022

User Operations Specialist

Snapdocs, Inc.
11.2020 - 07.2021

Case Manager

Marrick Medical Finance
08.2019 - 10.2020

Office Assistant- Content Manager

University of Kansas
09.2017 - 05.2019

B.A. - Creative Writing & Political Science

University of Kansas
Anaiya Underwood