Legal Contracts - Assistant Manager

1 Month ago • 4-5 Years • Legal

Job Summary

Job Description

Paytm is seeking a Legal Contracts Assistant Manager to join their legal team. The role involves managing legal and contractual matters, identifying and mitigating legal risks, and assisting senior legal colleagues with projects. Key responsibilities include drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various legal documents such as contracts, letters, and proposals to minimize organizational risk. The position requires resolving contractual issues with clients, partners, and vendors, and collaborating with cross-functional teams like compliance, product, and finance for timely project implementation. The ideal candidate will analyze business requirements, identify issues, and propose solutions, ensuring adherence to internal frameworks and processes. This includes end-to-end legal management of business transactions, general corporate advisory, and researching the viability of new business models. The role also entails analyzing business processes and new products, identifying risks, and proposing pragmatic solutions, providing timely legal support to internal stakeholders. It involves assessing ongoing legal agreements and assisting with changes to agreement templates and legal processes to comply with IT, e-commerce, and privacy laws.
Must have:
  • 4-5 years of end-to-end contract management experience
  • Strong legal acumen and interpersonal skills
  • Attention to detail and ability to work independently
  • Proficiency in MS Word/MS Office
  • Good drafting skills
  • Law graduate (LL.B from top-tier institute preferred)
Good to have:
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience with a law firm or in-house counsel
  • Self-starter and willing to hustle in a startup environment
Perks:
  • Merit-based culture
  • Agile and democratic setup
  • Space for creativity
  • Opportunity to work at scale
  • Environment that encourages diverse perspectives
  • Opportunity to create wealth for employees
  • Be part of India's largest digital lending story

Job Details

₹0 - ₹0 a year
About Us: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company.Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.

About the team: The legal team facilitates legal risk and compliance centrally and ensures business activities are conducted in conformity with all applicable laws, regulations, internal policies, and procedures. Serve as a liaison for local regulators and legal bodies, as well as maintain relationships with them. Ensure local regulatory permissions for Paytm remain current and appropriate for business needs.

About the role: The major responsibilities would include being a part of the legal Contracts team to ensure effective management of legal and contractual matters, in addition to the identification and mitigation of legal risks for the organization. The person will be a part of the legal team and assist senior legal colleagues in special and upcoming projects of Paytm.
Responsibilities:
1. Drafting, reviewing, red-lining, negotiating, and finalizing documents (Contracts, Letters,
Proposals, RFPs, etc.) from a legal perspective, ensuring minimal/no risk to the organization.
2. Resolve any contractual issues developed while working with clients, partners, service providers, and vendors.
3. Collaborate with other cross-functional teams (compliance, product, finance, business
teams) for the implementation of special projects across all business verticals in a time-bound
manner.
4. Ability to understand and analyze business requirements/needs, spot issues, and
propose/implement solutions.
5. Adherence with internal frameworks, mandates, and processes.
6. End-to-end legal management of assigned business transactions. General Corporate advisory and assist the senior colleagues of the team to research and assess the viability of new proposed business models.
7. Ability to analyze and assess business processes and proposed new products, identify issues, and propose pragmatic solutions. Working closely with internal stakeholders (Business, Finance, Product etc.) and providing an appropriate and timely legal support.
8. Identify risks in the ongoing legal agreements and evaluate and assist in changes to
agreement templates and other legal processes of all business verticals for compliance with
applicable IT, ecommerce, and privacy laws.

Superpowers/ Skills that will help you succeed in this role:

1. Minimum 4-5 years of experience in end-to-end contract management in assessing and advising
on compliance is required.
2. Strong Legal acumen, Good interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and coordinate
complex issues with diverse levels of management and employees.
3. Attention to detail and ability to work independently and efficiently.
4. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic growth-mode environment.
5. Proficient with MS Word/MS Office.
6. Experience with a law firm or as an in-house counsel is preferred.
7. The candidate should have good drafting skills and attention to detail.
8. The person should be a self-starter and willing to hustle in a start-up environment.

Education: Must be a law graduate, LL.B from a top-tier institute is preferred.
Why join us: Merit-based culture that thrives on self-motivated & driven individuals who are set out to make a successful career in India’s fastest-growing Fintech Organization. Agile & democratic setup that gives space to your creativity, and offers the opportunity to work at scale coupled with an environment that encourages diverse perspectives at all times.

Compensation: If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it. India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!

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