Legal Associate

JOB Description:

• Legal & Compliance Department is responsible for ensuring all compliance policies are followed, preparing and maintaining relevant compliance documentation, identifying and mitigating potential risks, conducting awareness and training sessions for the employees.
•  The role holder ensures the delivery of high-quality compliance and legal advice to the management, business partners and internal clients in order to prevent mitigate and/or control risk.
• The role holder identifies compliance risk, sets and ensures adherence to risk limits, including preventive and reactive measures ranging from training to controls.
• He/she also analyses processes and systems and advises stakeholder for the implementation of improved solutions that support business and mitigate compliance risk.

Job Responsibilities •

• Management and monitoring of Client Compliance requirements for all functions of the Organization and liaising with stake holders to ensure Compliance parameters.
•  Develops, initiates, maintains, and revises policies and procedures for the general compliance operations and related activities in order to prevent violation of Clients Compliance requirements.
•  Collaborates with all departments to direct compliance issues to appropriate channels for investigation and resolution.
•  Act as an independent evaluator and also collaborate with the Client on cases of NonCompliance for investigation and resolution.
• Provides reports on a regular basis, and as directed or requested, by the Client on observance to Compliance process, Records Management, Investigations & Procedure formulated for Compliance.
• Identifies potential areas of compliance vulnerability and risk; develops/implements corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues and provides general guidance onhow to avoid or deal with similar situations in the future.
• Monitors compliance activities, conducting internal audits to manage risk on Business Delivery and coordinating with all stakeholders to ensure the organization is Compliant.
• In accordance with the Client requirement, conduct compliance training, including training for new employees as well as ongoing training for all employees and Managers.  Monitors the performance of the Compliance Program and related activities on a continuing basis, taking appropriate steps to improve its effectiveness.
•  Lead contract risk assessment and review of terms & conditions for new proposals and changes.
•  Also accountable for added responsibilities viz., Insurance & Accreditations, SOC2 audit and other statutory and Business requirements.

Job Description

• Contract life cycle management drafting and review of documents such as Master Service Agreement, Non-disclosure Agreement, Confidentiality Agreement, MOU, etc.
•  Draft and respond to Legal Notices
•  Handling cases pertaining to Prevention of Sexual Harassment at workplace (POSH)