Senior Specialist - Legal

Company Overview

Arcesium is a global financial technology firm that solves complex data-driven challenges faced by some of the world's most sophisticated financial institutions. We constantly innovate our platform and capabilities to meet tomorrow's challenges, anticipate the risks our clients encounter, and design advanced solutions to help our clients achieve transformational business outcomes.

Financial technology is a high-growth industry as change and innovation continue to disrupt the status-quo and prompt major transformation. Arcesium is at a particularly interesting time in our own growth as we look to leverage our successfully established market position and expand operations in pursuit of strategic new business opportunities. We value intellectual curiosity, proactive ownership, and collaboration with colleagues, and we empower you to meaningfully contribute from day one and accelerate your professional development.

Arcesium seeks a highly motivated individual to join our Legal & Compliance team in Hyderabad as Senior Specialist - Legal and work on contracts, legal documentation, and legal research. The candidate will play a role in supporting the efficient management and analysis of our contracts, ensuring compliance, and in-turn facilitating effective decision-making within the organization.

What You'll Do

• Support the team on various legal aspects of contract management and applicable regulatory requirements.
• Review, negotiate, and maintain confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements with potential counterparties and vendors, as well as agreements for goods and services.
• Maintain knowledge of the Company's policies, procedures, and guidelines and propose changes to ensure compliance with applicable employment and labour law requirements.
• Work closely with all stakeholders to ensure appropriate awareness of Company's legal requirements and framework.
• Create contract abstracts and summaries, as needed.
• Proactively audit processes, practices, and documents to identify gaps/improvement areas.

What You'll need:

• LLB from a reputed institution. LLM (preferred, not mandatory)
• 2 to 5 years of experience working in an in-house legal team.
• Strong analytical skills, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills with a collaborative attitude.
• Excellent oral/written communications skills.
• Strong aptitude for drafting/editing and strong writing/editing experience.

Arcesium and its affiliates do not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other category protected by law. Note that for us, this is more than just a legal boilerplate. We are genuinely committed to these principles, which form an important part of our corporate culture, and are eager to hear from extraordinarily well qualified individuals having a wide range of backgrounds and personal characteristics.