About the Role:
We are looking for a seasoned legal professional to join a leading FinTech company's Legal & Governance team. This is a non-litigation role, focusing on contract management, and legal advisory work across digital payments and financial services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Drafting, review, negotiation and standardization of various new, bespoke and existing templates for meeting ongoing business and product requirements.
- Highly diligent and professional acumen to foresee and manage Contractual, Governance, Regulatory and Reputational risks and its group companies.
- Training around important legal developments to relevant employees on periodic basis.
Deliverables:
- Negotiates, drafts and advises on legal agreements, business SLAs and end to end contract management to the Business and Product teams.
- Should be able to work independently, guide and manage legal team for achieving desired results and counsel cross-functional teams in a fast paced and diverse environment.
Experience Required:
- 8 to 15 years of post-qualification experience in Contract Management, Product Advisory and Governance either as in-house counsel or external/law firm counsel or both.
- Good background of FinTech business, Companies Act, 2013, RBI (PAPG and KYC) & FEMA regulations, Data Privacy Laws (including DPDP Act, 2023 and GDPR), Contract Management related work in Digital Payments, BBPS and financial services space.
- Experience in developing and implementing processes for efficient and streamlining Legal operations especially for Contract Management including optimizing contracting process, TAT expectations, stamping, e-sign, repository access etc.
- Strong drafting, communication and influence building skills with past record of leading teams.
- Exposure to a variety of contracts Complex IT/ Software Development, e-commerce marketplace, payments, real estate to variety of vendors, suppliers, employment, service and partner contracts.
Skills Required:
- Well versed with legislative and regulatory changes, improve contract versions/templates, particularly with IT and Data Protection laws, Contract Act, RBI PAPG and BBPS guidelines.
- Drive high stake and complex contracts including negotiations and contract finalization.
- Committed and ready to work under constraints/pressure.
- Ability to work in a highly dynamic environment and collaborate with various internal and external stakeholders.
- Drafting, review and advisory experience in Documentation and Policy making work related to Digital Payments (like payment aggregation, gateway, TPAPs, e-commerce marketplaces).
- Develop commercial understanding of the businesses and product lines for risk assessment of mandatory legal & compliance requirements.
- Evaluate impacts of any new changes in laws and regulations, anticipate issues and proactively solve for open gaps, eliminate or mitigate risks.
- Good analytical, research and multi-tasking abilities to provide time-sensitive support on legal and regulatory issues in connection with business operations.
- High degree of professional ethics, integrity, analytical, interpersonal and judgement skills.
Qualification Required:
- Law graduate (3/5-year program) from a reputed institution.
- Company Secretary qualification (preferred but not mandatory).
- Strong academic background (1st class in SSC and HSC).
Relevant Industry:
Banking / Online Payment Gateway (PSO) / Fintech registered with RBI or NPCI / Financial services (NBFC or Insurance)
Location:
Andheri (W), Mumbai
Kindly Note:
- This is a strictly non-litigation profile.
- Only candidates currently based in Mumbai should apply (No relocation or remote option).
