Governance & Entity Onboarding Specialist

Texas Capital; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Fertility and family building aids

Life and disability insurance

401k match

Job summary

Texas Capital seeks a governance-focused paralegal professional to lead complex entity onboarding, review governing documents, and manage authority structures across private equity, real estate, and banking clients. The role requires coordinating with legal, compliance, treasury, and credit teams to ensure proper documentation and approvals.

Ideal candidates have experience with entity formation, fund structures, and KYC/KYB/AML, with strong written communication and proactive problem-solving.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with entity formation, working with governing documents, fund structures, bank operations or complex commercial onboarding.
• Experience in real estate finance, fund formation and administration, commercial banking onboarding, KYC/KYB and AML is a plus.
• Coachable, strong desire to learn and improve; takes ownership in coordinating across teams.

Responsibilities

• Read, analyze and confirm legal authority delegated under business organization documents.
• Construct legal structure charts for complex business structures including nested entities and multi-SPV clients.
• Build and maintain authority matrices: identify entity-level representatives and signers with evidence and dates.
• Prepare standardized entity documentation packages for account opening, lending clients and delegated authority/entitlements.
• Flag refresh triggers to internal stakeholders and coordinate updates.
• Track open items and coordinate document corrections across teams.
• Coordinate across legal, compliance, treasury, operations, and credit stakeholders regarding documentation and authority matters.
• Contribute to policy development and authority escalation processes.
• Raise exceptions and novel structures through appropriate approval channels.

Skills

Entity formation

Governing documents

Bank onboarding

KYC/KYB/AML

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong written communication

Education

Paralegal, JD or equivalent experience

Job description

Texas Capital seeks a governance-focused paralegal professional to lead complex entity onboarding, review governing documents, and manage authority structures across private equity, real estate, and banking clients. The role requires coordinating with legal, compliance, treasury, and credit teams to ensure proper documentation and approvals.

Ideal candidates have experience with entity formation, fund structures, and KYC/KYB/AML, with strong written communication and proactive problem-solving.