Senior Legal Counsel

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.Your TeamTo keep pace with the expansion of the business, we are looking for a Senior Legal Counsel for the APAC region, based in Pune, India . You will be part of the global team with approximately 50 qualified professionals based in Singapore, Berlin, Zurich, Manila and Lugano. It is key that you are a well organised team player with the ability to communicate at all levels with customers, internal clients and business partners. You will have the opportunity to grow together with the company.

• Provide general legal support to the business operations.
• Advise HR and management on employment-related legal issues including hiring, disciplinary actions, terminations, and employee relations.
• Support the company’s secretarial and governance functions, including board and committee meetings, resolutions, and statutory filings
• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including licensing and SaaS related contracts, vendor contracts, service agreements, NDAs.
• Support business teams in contract lifecycle management
• Monitor and ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and internal policies.
  

Qualifications

• A law degree from a reputable university.
• Possess at least 5 years post-qualification experience, ideally gained in a reputable law firm and / or as in-house counsel.
• Strong commercial background, with good knowledge of contract law and significant experience of reviewing, drafting and negotiating contracts, ideally including licence agreements, cloud related services agreement, RFPs/tenders and vendor contracts. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in the software or banking industry.
  

Additional Information
We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.