Legal Contracts - Senior Manager

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing, red-lining, negotiating, and finalizing documents like Banking Alliances, Corporate PSA’s, promotional agreements, Escrow agreements, Marketing agreements, Acquiring agreements, promotions, Banking referrals, Distribution contracts, EDC Contracts., Letters, Proposals, RFPs, etc. from a legal perspective, ensuring minimal/no risk to the organization.
• Resolve any contractual issues developed while working with clients, partners, service providers, and vendors.
• Collaborate with other cross functional teams (compliance, product, finance, business teams) for implementation of special projects across all business verticals in a time bound manner.
• Ability to understand and analyze business requirements/needs, spot issues, and propose/implement solutions.
• Adherence with internal frameworks, mandates, and processes.
• End-to-end legal management of assigned business transactions. General Corporate advisory and assist the senior colleagues of the team to research and assess viability of new proposed business models under the applicable ecommerce, and FEMA.
• Ability to analyze and assess business processes and proposed new products, identify issues and propose pragmatic solutions. Working closely with internal stakeholders (Business, Finance, Product etc.) and providing appropriate and timely legal support.
• Identify risks in the ongoing legal agreements and evaluate and assist in changes of agreement templates and other legal processes of all business verticals for compliance of applicable IT, e-commerce and privacy laws.

Qualification & Experience    

• Minimum 10+ years of experience in end-to-end contract management having experience in a law firm or in- house legal team or from Fintech/ Banking/ Lending companies are preferred.
• Strong Legal acumen Good interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and coordinate complex issues with diverse levels of management and employees.
• Attention to detail and ability to work independently and efficiently.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic growth-mode environment.
• Proficient with MS Word/MS Office.
• Experience with a law firm or as an in-house counsel is preferred.
• The candidate should have good drafting skills and attention to detail. The person should be a self-starter and willing to hustle in a start-up environment.
• Strong hold in assessing and advising on compliance of new business/product models with applicablee-commerce/FEMA/Data Protection/IT laws.
• Education: Must be a law graduate, LL.B from top tier institute (National Law Schools, DU, ILS, Symbiosis) is preferred.