Head - Legal - Telecom

Job Title: Head Legal

Department: Legal

Reports to: Central Leadership Team

Experience: 10+ years of experience in Legal function of similar industry

Location: Navi Mumbai

CTC: 35 lacs to 45 lacs PA

Job Description:

- Perform due-diligence and legal risk assessment for specific projects as necessary

- Formulate effective legal risk management tools in order to enhance compliance and mitigate risks

- Judge the level of seriousness of legal compliance issues, mitigating actions required and appraises the central leadership team on the level to which it must be elevated

- Identify, diagnose and resolve essential compliance changes to deliver the required levels of assurance

- Design the Legal roadmap for The organization in conjunction with the Central Leadership Team

- Identify and implement legal policies and procedures and cascade them to the entire organization

- Review and provide legal advice on all contractual agreements involving own and third parties

- Liaise with departments to ensure identifications of legal risks and develop appropriate mitigation strategies and solutions.

- Provide and interpret legal information, conduct training and disseminate appropriate legal requirements to the entire organization

- Review and advise management on legal implications of internal policies and procedures.

- Review and draft contracts, agreements and internal policies and ensure that they are in compliance with all statutory or legal requirements.

- Review progress of outstanding litigation and liaise with and manage external lawyers.

- Formulate compliance check-lists to be used for the purpose of ensuring that all information required is provided accordingly.

- Continuously monitor compliance with statutory obligations and advise management accordingly.

- Prepare monthly and quarterly reports for the department for executive management meetings.

- Review all contracts or any other documentation where the company has committed itself and assess legal implications that need to be brought to the executive management’s attention.

- Prepare, review and modify contractual instruments to assist and support various business activities.

- Negotiate, review and draft documentation for business transactions and prepare and advise on the necessary checklist to be adopted to ensure information is submitted on time.

Experience: 10+ years of experience in Legal function of similar industry

Supervisory responsibilities:

- Teams reporting to the Head Legal includes the legal functional team

- Department size: Approximately 1 to 2 direct reports

Potential recruiting sources:

- Financial services and payment companies, both Indian and MNCs operating in and from India and potential beyond India.

- Technology companies, both Indian and MNCs operating in and from India.

- Potentially a Senior Management Professional with experience in leading the Legal Function, preferably in a start-up environment

Minimum qualifications:

Education: Post Graduate degree in Law with experience the Indian legal system / environment

Industry: Financial Services

Company details: Confidential