Legal Counsel/Senior Legal Counsel

As a leading financial services and healthcare technology company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has 27,000+ employees in 35 countries. Some 20,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Legal Counsel

Locations: London, Essex | Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

Our legal counsel team provide general legal advice, negotiate commercial contracts with clients/suppliers and support to the SS&C Group’s business units and corporate support functions (and may involve having the responsibility to be the principal point of liaison between the Legal Team and particular business units within SS&C Group); and

Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including access to SS&C University
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Diversity
• Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do:

Mainly - Commercial Contracts

To review, draft and negotiate legal agreements with clients, suppliers and other counterparties;

Governance & Legal Risk Management

To assist with the maintenance and enforcement of SS&C Group Policies and procedures, in particular those governing the signature of contracts;

To participate in the risk management activity of the business including if required by attendance at risk committees.

Occasionally - Dispute Resolution

To provide initial advise on disputes and claims between the Company and third parties, there is a separate litigation function;

Very Occasional - Company Secretarial

To assist, if required, with mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and other corporate activity.

Very Occasional - HR Support

To assist, if required, to provide advice and support to the HR team in connection with staff disputes, claims, grievances and other legal issues arising.

What You Will Bring:

• Has worked with sales teams before not just procurement side
• Minimum 1+ years pqe
• BPO outsourcing/commercial contracts work or software SAAS licensing etc. Ability to negotiate and draft commercial contracts and contribute to setting up precedents and processes.
• Excellent communication skills and pride in your work.
• Ability to build strong and trusted relationships with internal clients (including sales and commercial teams) and external stakeholders, cheerful and positive.
• Good knowledge, and an excellent user, of Microsoft Word (other suite application knowledge helpful).
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage a heavy workload and to meet tight deadlines.
• Good working knowledge of data protection law. Appropriate professional legal qualifications and/or experience

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable us to bring diverse perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.