Commercial Lawyer

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Alfa is seeking a Senior Commercial Lawyer with extensive contract negotiation experience within the financial technology sector to join our global Commercial team. You will be responsible for providing general transactional support on customer, supplier and partner contracts and other various legal matters that support internal operations. The position involves providing guidance on a broad range of contracting matters with technical and regulatory components (e.g. OCC, FDIC, CFPB, plus EBA and equivalents).

Key responsibilities:

● Develops functional plans for managing legal matters, including activities to be performed in-house or through third-party relationships to best manage the company’s legal activities and minimise risk for the business

● Negotiating client, supplier and partnership agreements

● Collaborate with our wider Commercial Lawyer populations to assist with the review and maintenance of contract templates and contractual processes

● Negotiation and completion of agreements, including confidential disclosures, cloud services agreements/SaaS engagements, material transfer, Software licensing agreements and other intellectual property-related matters

● Direct ownership of set client negotiations with the ability to proactively provide internal progress reports on a weekly basis.
● Work closely with the commercial and sales teams and provide project leads with any legal or commercial assistance required

What you will bring to the team:
● Extensive contract negotiation experience in a client facing role with the ability to manage evolving negotiations in real time.
● Proven experience working within the regulated field of financial technology
● Experience of creating/reviewing/amending commercial contracts with strong contract drafting and analytical skills
● 10 years + PQE qualified in the UK (EU qualified with the ability to practise in the UK considered)

What we’ll do for you
● Support you in flexible hybrid or remote working
● 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays and flexible cultural days
● Pension contribution match up to 6%
● Provide private health insurance and access to private GP
● Support you with enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave with family-friendly policies
● Provide Income protection
● Provide Life, disability and worldwide travel insurance
● Offer interest free loans of up to £10,000 after probation period
● Offer Gympass given access to a range of health and wellbeing gyms, classes and apps
● Electric car scheme
● Cycle to work scheme
● Retail Discounts
● Support you in pursuing membership of professional bodies
● Offer 5 days per year for training and attending conferences
● Offer 3 paid days of volunteering per year

About Alfa We bring our industry-leading software platform to the likes of Mercedes-Benz and CarMax, so they can do business globally. Supporting all types of auto, equipment and wholesale finance business, our software platform uses a modern technology stack to deliver proven functionality and performance. Our customers use Alfa Systems for the full lifecycle, from point of sale, through originations, to contract management and remarketing. Alfa Systems manages complex leases and loans, in any region, language and currency in a highly available, high-throughput system.

Culture
Our culture is vibrant, innovative and diverse, and we are proud of it. Ours is a close-knit community. Alfa employees are an eclectic mix and all are creative, talented and hardworking. We think it is important to build close working relationships within our company, so we hold numerous team events and conferences that bring us together for socialising and team building. We all enjoy the work-life balance and the great culture, with plenty of social activities organised by the company.