Head of Legal

ITRS; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

Join ITRS as the Head of Legal in London, a part-time role where you'll lead the legal function and support contract negotiations across sales and procurement. We're looking for a qualified solicitor with a strong commercial background and at least 8 years of PQE. Experience in the technology and financial services sectors will be advantageous.

Benefits

Health Insurance

Pension

Flexible Hybrid Working

Enhanced Parental Leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor with at least 8 years PQE.
• Experience managing a legal team.
• Proven experience in general commercial law.

Responsibilities

• Manage the legal function and provide guidance for achieving business goals.
• Support sales in negotiating legal agreements.
• Oversee compliance and legal risk mitigation.

Skills

Commercial awareness

Contract negotiation

Legal advising

Team management

Relationship building

Education

Qualified solicitor

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Recognised as a Great Place to Work, ITRS is an Enterprise SaaS provider with industry-leading solutions. Our prestigious customer base includes 90% of the world's top investment banks. We are backed by leading private equity investors and are rapidly growing.

Our headquarters are in Shoreditch - London's tech hub - with offices in other UK and global locations from the Netherlands to Manila, NYC and Boston. We pride ourselves on a diverse, friendly, dynamic culture - with a focus on internal promotion and developing our people.

Recognised as a Great Place to Work, ITRS is an Enterprise SaaS provider with industry-leading solutions. Our prestigious customer base includes 90% of the world's top investment banks. We are backed by leading private equity investors and are rapidly growing.

Our headquarters are in Shoreditch - London's tech hub - with offices in other UK and global locations from the Netherlands to Manila, NYC and Boston. We pride ourselves on a diverse, friendly, dynamic culture - with a focus on internal promotion and developing our people.

Scope of Role

Reporting to our Group Financial Officer, we are looking for a Head of Legal to join our London office on part-time 3 days per week, 1 year fixed term basis, focusing on managing the team and partnering with finance and sales on commercial contract negotiations.

As a Head of Legal, you will:

• Be a trusted adviser and partner, dealing with all legal aspects of the business and providing guidance and counsel for accomplishing ITRS' overall goals.
• Manage the legal function by providing a vision and goals aligned to ITRS OKR's; by providing support, oversight and empowerment of the Senior Legal Counsel, by working with external legal and other advisers to ensure that the ITRS receives the best possible advice.
• Support sales and procurement function by managing ITRS suite of templates, legal agreements (including software licencing, partnerships and managed services agreements) and by negotiating contracts and schedules with ITRS's customers, partners and suppliers.
• Support the business on all legal matters, as point of escalation for all legal issues arising across the ITRS; by assisting with compliance and risk mitigation, by working with external counsel across the jurisdictions ITRS group operates.
• Work with the finance team by assisting with pension, insurance, company secretarial, business licences queries, compliance and risk mitigation.
• Provide oversight of ITRS company secretarial function by working with the providers of company secretarial services to ensure the group companies remain compliant with local laws and regulations.

Requirements

To be successful we are looking for the following experience and attributes:

• Qualified solicitor with at least 8 years PQE and proven experience in general commercial law. Experience of software/technology and the financial services industry would be an advantage.
• Experience managing a legal team
• Analyse information of a written, verbal and technical nature, probe for further information and create workable solutions to problems.
• Track record drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements (including software licencing, maintenance and distribution) and bespoke commercial contracts
• Commercial awareness and the ability to apply commercial judgment
• Confident in assessing situations, operating autonomously and taking decisions
• Flexibility to react quickly, reschedule and prioritise workload
• Track record in relationship and network building, including helping others, working within and contributing towards effective teams

Benefits

• Health Insurance and Dental Health Cover for you and your dependants
• Pension
• Flexible Hybrid Working
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Travel Insurance
• Life Assurance
• Income Protection
• Referral Bonus
• Buy and Sell Holiday
• Training Reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Programme

ITRS is an Equal Opportunity employer and Inclusion is part of our everyday life. We celebrate diversity and pride ourselves on providing an environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and have a voice, allowing everyone to contribute equally. We remain committed to advocating inclusion, diversity, and equality into our ITRS family as we grow and enrich our business.

We welcome applications from everyone in the community as we recognise that a diverse workforce is a stronger workforce.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Part-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Software Development

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