TMF

TMF Group is a leading provider of administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. As we’re a global company with 11,000+ colleagues based in over 125 offices across 87 jurisdictions, we actively seek out people with the talent and potential to flourish at TMF Group, whatever their background, and offer job opportunities to the broadest spectrum of people. Once on board we nurture and promote talented individuals, making sure that senior positions are open to all.

TMF India is a Great Place to Work, ISO & ISAE certified organization.

It is an area experiencing significant growth in TMF, thus providing an opportunity for great career development.

• Fulfil Business Legal’s role in the second line of defence within TMF, enhancing a central legal risk management.
• Actively participate in relevant local board and local committee meetings and market management meetings to advise and guide local management on relevant legal matters.
• Work with relevant stakeholder to ensure alignment of market legal budgeting matters.
• Update market management and Group Legal on legal developments in the market.
• Discover training opportunities to increase awareness in legal areas and provide legal training to the market.
• Facilitate the first line of defence within TMF with local implementation of global legal policies, procedures and standards, ensuring compliance with group legal policies, procedures and standards as well as local legislative requirements.
• Work with the Market Head to operationalise and embed effective controls and practices;
• Proactively monitor the implementation of global legal policies, procedures, standards and local legal requirements.
• Perform second line testing in connection with Group Legal and Group Director Legal.
• Provide remediation support to the first line of defence within TMF.
• Ensuring high-quality in-house legal service delivery with high business impact

(Pro-actively) advise on and support the market management with the following legal topics: data privacy, cosec, local client contracting, regulatory strategic advice, procurement, legal entity management, various registrations, intercompany agreements, HR support and remediating internal audit findings.

• Responsible for advising on correspondence with authorities and escalate to Group Legal and/or market management when necessary.
• Work with Group Privacy Office to ensure that the market establishes adequate governance on data processing activities, perform regular data inventory maintenance, avoid/handle data breaches in a proper manner to avoid/mitigate the legal risk.
• Work with the Group procurement & real estate team to ensure compliance with local legislative requirements.
• Work with Group Corporate & Claims to ensure adequate support in restructuring and M&A matters, enhance collaboration on board governance, cosec matters, legal entity management and intragroup intercompany agreements.
• Work with Group Corporate & Claims to ensure timely reporting of legal cases and control of related external spend together with market legal counsels.
• Work with Group Global Client Contracting to ensure the local implementation of LSA templates and standards, and timely escalations in accordance with the LSA escalation matrix.
• Facilitate the delivery of yearly Global Legal Priorities & KPI’s, contributing to the success of TMF strategy
• Understands, operationalises and supports the delivery of the Global Legal Priorities & KPI’s at the market level.
• Suggests market strategy, execute and resolve bottlenecks with the Director Legal to improve progress on the Global Legal Priorities & KPI’s in the market.
• Ensures accurate reporting on progress on the Global Legal Priorities & KPI’s.

• Should be a qualified lawyer with at least minimum 10 years of legal work experience, preferably both in-house and in a law firm and have knowledge of corporate, civil, commercial and liability law.
• Should have demonstrated experience in collaborating with colleagues across different international offices and reaching consensus with diverse stakeholders.
• Should understand the needs of the business and the importance of legal risk management and are able to integrate legal risk management aspects and legal service delivery smoothly in daily legal activities.
• Should be team player, ambitious and proactive; you are focused on cooperation and solutions; you show persuasiveness.
• Should have excellent communication (verbal and written) and influencing skills, are fluent in English and a serious discussion partner for internal and external professionals.
• Should feel comfortable working in a team that considers continuous improvement of processes and services as well as customer and market orientation important. You are an active contributor to those improvements.s fully aware of business trends/ changes in law that will impact their role and where appropriate, influencing policy change.
• Should be to successfully plan and deliver short to medium-term projects on a local basis.
• Recognised within a large part of the organisation as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in their specialist area, is knowledgeable on day to day activities and is sought by other for advice.
• Question and challenge the value being delivered through commercial arrangements (internal or external).
• Expected to design control, risk and governance frameworks for immediate business area.

What's in it for you?

Pathways for career development

• Work with colleagues and clients around the world on interesting and challenging work.
• We provide internal career opportunities, so you can take your career further within TMF.
• Continuous development is supported through global learning opportunities from the TMF Business Academy.

Making an impact

• You’ll be helping us to make the world a simpler place to do business for our clients.
• Through our corporate social responsibility program, you’ll also be making a difference in the communities where we work.

A supportive environment

• Strong feedback culture to help build an engaging workplace.
• Our inclusive work environment allows you to work from our offices around the world, as well as from home, helping you find the right work-life balance to perform at your best.

Other Benefits

• Marriage Gift policy
• Paternity & Adoption leaves
• Interest free loan policy
• Salary advance policy
• Wellbeing initiatives