Senior Director - Legal - IT/BFS - LLB/LLM

Position Name - Senior Director - Legal

Location - Bangalore (Onsite)

Experience Range - 10+yrs

Salary Range - 40- 45LPA

Mandatory Requirement:

1) 10 + Years of experience post-qualification as in-house counsel or a leading law firm (Fintech or Payments industry experience would be preferred)

2) LLB/LLM from a reputed law school is essential

3) Must have a good understanding of commercial contract terms and their legal implications.

4) Excellent oral communication and written skills.

About the client:

Our client provides business expense management solutions that streamline the expense workflows of the corporates. They helps companies manage business expenses easily and quickly and achieve real-time visibility and control over all business expenditure. They have acquired marquee Enterprise customers and has built a trustworthy brand amongst CFOs and CIOs in India. Some of the biggest names of India Inc. their clients like Maruti, Tata Group, UPL, Edelweiss, PWC etc. and is trusted by some of the innovative companies also: Dunzo, Lenskart, MPL, Swiggy.

About the role:

The Associate Director of Legal is first and foremost tasked with leading & scaling up the team in all legal corporate affairs. This individual is tasked with the implementation of key legal processes that relate to legal drafting, negotiations, and service level agreements. He/she should also contribute to the business's strategy and decision-making processes alongside other departmental leaders. In this capacity, the individual will also act as a mentor to key legal department personnel, encouraging their professional growth.

Key responsibilities:

- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts for various business lines including SAAS (sales), vendor, lending, technology, bank, payment networks and partnerships.

- Advising management on various payment, technology & privacy related laws including the

- Payment & Settlement Act, RBI regulation on lending business, Information Technology Act and Privacy Laws on need basis.

- Actively participate in risk mitigation and identifying legal issues, providing analysis of legal risks and creating and implementing solutions structured to achieve business objectives

- Handling a team, supervising their work and guiding them.

- Keeping up with current changes on all relevant areas of laws and contributing to the enhancement of the knowledge base of the company's legal function

- Effectively communicate and negotiate with external parties creating relations of trust

- Advise leadership and business teams on an active legal regulatory strategy for our current and upcoming products.

Qualification & Skills:

- LLB/LLM from a reputed law school is essential

- Must have ability to organize and deliver assigned workload within the timelines.

- Leadership quality

- Strong legal research and analytical skills