Vice President, Legal

Tresvista Financial Services; Mhalunge; On-site; INR 1,600,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

TresVista Financial Services's Legal department seeks an experienced in-house counsel to lead contract management, compliance, and advisory work across client, vendor, and partner agreements. You will draft, review, and negotiate agreements, provide timely advice to senior leadership, and lead the contract management team to ensure obligations are met.

Ideal candidates have 8+ years in-house experience, a law degree, strong leadership and collaboration skills, and the ability to manage risk

Qualifications

• 8+ years in-house legal experience in a corporate setting.
• Graduate or postgraduate degree in Law.
• Experience with contract management, compliance, and risk.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and work collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate commercial agreements and third-party contracts.
• Provide legal advisory to senior management and executives.
• Lead contract management to ensure post-contract obligations are met.
• Advise on formation and governance of new entities.
• Identify and manage legal risks in partnerships and regulatory matters.
• Lead and mentor the Legal team to improve productivity.

Skills

Legal knowledge

Corporate compliance

Leadership

Team management

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Ambiguity handling

Education

Graduate/Postgraduate in Law

Job description

About Department:

The Legal department at TresVista is responsible for ensuring agreements entered into with its clients, vendors and third parties are compliant with TresVistas contracting requirements, applicable local regulations as well as providing advisory support to stakeholders, research into applicable laws and regulations in geographies where TresVista operates, negotiating terms of engagement with vendors and drafting legal documents as required by the company.

The Role & Responsibilities:

Contract Management:

• Draft, review, negotiate, and advise internal stakeholders and negotiate with external counterparts on various commercial agreements, including third-party agreements, operations and services agreements etc.
• Provide time-sensitive support on a wide array of legal inquiries in connection with the contracts
• Establish and Lead contract management team to ensure post contractual obligations are met

Legal Strategy and Advisory:

• Collaborate with the Senior Leadership of TresVista to implement the legal strategy
• Provide legal advice to senior management, board members and other executives on various legal matters
• Review and drive the policies in compliance with legal regulations (e.g. Code of Ethics, HR compliance, POSH, Etc.)
• IP management
• Real estate support
• Handle entire legal operations by improving the service quality by establishing new processes, steps, checks, and balances
• Support on employment matters

Entity Management, Formation and Structure:

• Advising on the formation and structuring of potential new legal entities, such as corporations, partnerships, and LLCs. This includes selecting the appropriate entity type and jurisdiction
• Ensuring the firm complies with all relevant laws, regulations, and corporate governance requirements. This involves overseeing board meetings, maintaining corporate records, and filing necessary reports

Risk Identification and Management:

• Identify and consult on legal risks in connection with any external partnerships, regulatory, cyber security, intellectual property requirements, and any other matters as needed
• Serve as lead counsel on strategic deals, resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries

Leadership and Managerial:

• Driving improvements in productivity and efficiency using appropriate efficiency metrics (KPIs) defined for department success
• Devising new strategies for hiring and training the Legal team
• Guiding, mentoring, and training the Associates and VPs in their role and bringing them up to speed

Prerequisites:

• Understanding of a wide variety of laws applicable to financial services firms and other diversified laws.
• Well-versed with corporate legal compliance, policies and framework
• Good in anticipating and identifying legal issues of the Company and proactively developing effective legal strategies and practical solutions
• Proactive and self-motivated, have a keen eye for detail
• Excellent leadership, team building, and management skills
• Highly collaborative with team orientation
• Ability to handle ambiguity

Experience:

8+ years of experience as part of an in-house legal team of a corporate company

Education:

Graduate/Postgraduate in Law

Compensation:

The compensation structure will be as per industry standards