Assistant Vice President - Global Technology & Commercial Contracts - BFSI

Assistant Vice President - Global Technology & Commercial Contracts - BFS

Must have experience in:

- End to end minimum 7+ years of relevant experience in GLOBAL Software, commercial and technology contracts management.

Key Accountabilities:

The role will include the following main duties and responsibilities:

- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts in order to effectively manage and mitigate legal and regulatory risk. Proactively identifying, escalating and addressing legal risk issues arising from:

- Contracts (or non-contractual projects with a technology/commercial legal focus) to be entered into by members of the Group (both within the UK and globally).

- The operations and technology functions' work generally as well as support of ' service company, by providing prompt, commercial and pragmatic advice.

- Ensuring that contracts and other documents (including relevant Policies, process documents, etc) comply with the applicable regulatory framework, including regulations on outsourcing, operational continuity, ring-fencing and the appointed representative regime.

- Proactively liaising with and involving other members of the legal and compliance functions and other stakeholders throughout the Group on legal risk matters.

- Effectively and proactively participating in, influencing and driving the development of processes, policies and procedures designed to manage, mitigate and reduce legal risk and/or increase the efficiency of the team, including development and maintenance of relevant precedents and other know-how items.

- Maintaining effective file management practices including use of the team's electronic filing platform and record management requirements.

- Sharing know-how and experience with other legal advisers within the team and elsewhere within the Legal Function.

- Proactively forging relationships with a broad range of legal and business areas and third parties in order to encourage the best quality output and service from the team.

Risk and Control Objective:

- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you do.

- Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Policies and Policy Standards.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

- Senior qualified lawyer (Solicitor, Barrister or equivalent in the role holder's relevant location), with relevant post-qualification experience (in-house and/or private practice) ideally with one or more of the following areas: software/fintech, commercial contracts, payments, financial services, e-commerce.

- Strong technical knowledge of commercial agreements and experience in negotiating and advising on general commercial/technology contracts, preferably including a range of agreements from the following examples (this is an illustrative list).

- Software, data and index licences.

- Proof of concept agreements.

- Non-disclosure/confidentiality agreements.

- General service agreements (including framework/master services agreements and work orders).

- Hardware and software maintenance agreements.

- Software development agreements.

- Software-as-a-service agreements.

- Cloud service agreements.

- Sponsorship, ambassador and influencer agreements.

- Donation agreements.

- Intellectual property licence agreements.

- HR service agreements.

- Professional service agreements.

- Termination agreements and,

- Outsourcing services agreements.

- Technical knowledge and experience above to be based on English law contracts or equivalent (e.g. experience of the laws, and ideally contract principles, in a comparable legal system (including Common Law jurisdictions) with a similar legal framework to those found in contracts governed by English law, on the basis that most of the contracts within the scope of this role will be English law contracts).

- Strong stakeholder management skills, ability to work cross-functionally in a collegiate and professional manner, and willingness to support projects led by other teams and functions.

- Strong communication skills (including speaking, reading, writing and listening) in English language. Knowledge of a foreign language and other local language will be an added benefit.

- Excellent attention to detail, organisational and time management skills - with the ability to manage a range of tasks and responsibilities to a high quality, to deliver tasks and manage processes in a consistently accurate and efficient manner, to plan and deliver tasks to deadlines (and, where applicable, in line with team SLAs), to prioritise work effectively and to work flexibly to meet team and stakeholder needs.

- Ability to demonstrate ' Values and Mindset, and to support colleagues (including their wellbeing, and contributing positively and proactively to a supportive and inclusive team culture).

- High motivation, initiative and professionalism.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience with innovation, FinTech/payments businesses and regulatory environments.

- Experience of the financial services industry, either in house with a financial services organisation or with a significant law firm.

- Understanding, knowledge and experience of and its operational and strategic objectives.

- Demonstrable experience of identifying improvements in processes and ways of working and supporting the implementation of the same.