Assistant Manager - Legal Compliance

Deloitte Shared Services India; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte Shared Services India in Mumbai is seeking an experienced Legal Counsel to review contracts, draft terms, and advise on business risks. The role requires handling NDAs, MSAs, JV/Consortium agreements, and tender documents with emphasis on compliance and policy alignment.

You will lead negotiations, standardize engagement templates, and monitor internal policy updates while ensuring accurate contractual outcomes across engagements.

Qualifications

• Ability to interpret laws, rules and regulations and apply them to work as required.
• Analytical skills – analyse facts and draw logical conclusions
• Effective verbal and written communication skills – draft legal clauses / contracts, prepare reports
• Experience – around 5 years

Responsibilities

• Review services contracts, MSAs, GMSAs, Consortium/JV agreements, NDA’s, tender documents, etc. and identify legal and business risks
• Draft and negotiate contract terms and conditions and advise business of contractual rights and obligations
• Oversee legal implications of critical engagements
• Assist in standardizing of engagement documents and contracts and in policy revision/ improvement
• Lead negotiation responsibilities
• Assist in quality and risk matters of internal compliances and policies
• Keeping track of updates in the firms internal policies and replicating the changes suggested in standard templates
• Develop various contractual formats such as MOU, JV / Consortium agreements, MSAs etc. as may be required
• Suggest best practices and improvement areas continuously in standard agreements

Skills

Contract negotiation

Legal drafting

Risk assessment

Analytical thinking

Effective communication

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Review services contracts, MSAs, GMSAs, Consortium/JV agreements, NDA’s, tender documents, etc. and identify legal and business risks;
• Draft and negotiate contract terms and conditions and advise business of contractual rights and obligations;
• Oversee legal implications of critical engagements;
• Assist in standardizing of engagement documents and contracts and in policy revision/ improvement;
• Lead negotiation responsibilities;
• Assist in quality and risk matters of internal compliances and policies;
• Keeping track of updates in the firms internal policies and replicating the changes suggested in standard templates;
• Develop various contractual formats such as MOU, JV / Consortium agreements, MSAs etc. as may be required;
• Suggest best practices and improvement areas continuously in standard agreements;

Preferred candidate profile

• Ability to interpret laws, rules and regulations and apply them to work as required.
• Analytical skills - should be able to use judgment, analyse facts and draw logical conclusions
• Effective verbal and written communication skills – should be able to draft legal clauses / contracts, prepare reports and correspondence related to work
• Experience – Around 5 years