Are you a law graduate/ legal professional looking for job opportunities as a Contract Counsel? This opportunity might be of interest to you!
About:
HighRadius offers cloud-based Autonomous Software for the Office of the CFO. More than 700 of the world’s leading companies have transformed their order to cash, treasury, and record to report processes with HighRadius. Their customers include 3M, Unilever, Anheuser-Busch InBev, Sanofi, Kellogg Company, Danone, Hershey’s and many more.
Autonomous Software is data-driven software that continuously morphs its behavior to the ever-changing underlying domain transactional data. It brings modern digital transformation capabilities like Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Natural Language Processing and Connected Workspaces as out-of-the-box features for the finance & accounting domain.
Finance business stakeholders have been led to believe that they have only two choices: pick an application software vendor that digitizes a paper or Excel-based process to an electronic system of record, or, choose a middleware platform for AI or RPA to build and maintain in-house, domain-specific capabilities. In contrast, HighRadius Autonomous Software combines the best of both worlds to deliver measurable business outcomes such as DSO reduction, working capital optimization, bad-debt reduction, reduce month close timelines, and improved productivity in under six months.
Role:
Contract Counsel
Qualifications:
- Law Graduate, LLB with at least 5 years of experience from a law firm or another multinational technology company
- Proactive, self-motivated, result oriented, with excellent communication skills; strong attention to detail and confidentiality
- Experience with software-as-a-service, other types of information technology agreements, professional services agreements, and personal data privacy agreements.
- Experience with cross-border, Indian contract law, and the personal data privacy laws of the EU, UK, USA and India.
Responsibilities:
- Review, draft, and negotiate a high volume of procurement agreements, including software-as-a-service, IT equipment and services, professional services, and related SOWs within a short turnaround.
- Support and review procurement requests for the company globally (US, UK, EU, India).
- Follow playbook guidance and draft contract provisions from scratch when such guidance does not exist.
- Assess whether a contemplated procurement transaction has personal data privacy implications across various geographies including the EU, UK, USA, and India.
- Apply the appropriate contracting mechanisms to maintain compliance with personal data privacy laws including personal data privacy agreements, Standard Contractual Clauses, and the US-EEA data privacy framework (US Privacy Shield replacement) once ratified.
- Issue vendor data privacy impact assessments and assess for compliance with data privacy law and company policies.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to convey complex information in a way that non-lawyers can readily understand.
- Identify and mitigate business and legal risks in prospective and existing contracts and advise internal stakeholders with respect to those.
- Consult with internal and external subject matter experts as appropriate.
- Ensure that contracts comply with various company policies.
- Support internal stakeholders in addressing vendor performance issues and resolving disputes with vendors.
- Contribute to other tasks and/or projects to support the legal department as needed.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates can Apply here (click here)
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