Job Description
LCD comprises of Legal, Compliance, Global Financial Crimes and Regulatory Relations.
The Legal Department provides guidance, requirements and procedures for understanding and complying with the laws, regulations and Firm policies that apply to our businesses.
The Global Compliance Department identifies applicable Compliance Obligations and maintains a Firmwide Compliance Risk management program, including Compliance Risks that transcend business lines, legal entities and jurisdictions of operation.
Global Financial Crimes is responsible for the development and governance of the Firm’s financial crime prevention efforts across all regions and business units. Global Financial Crimes is comprised of the Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Sanctions, Anti-boycott, Anti-Corruption (ACG) and Government and Political Activities Compliance (GPAC) programs.
The Global Regulatory Relations Group (GRRG) is responsible for strategic and centralized management of the supervisory activities of regulators and related developments globally, with a focus on regulatory reviews and examinations and continuous monitoring activities. GRRG serves as the central point of contact for the regulatory staff responsible for supervisory activities at entities and for timely reporting to Firm management and other governance or management bodies, as appropriate, on those relationships and supervisory processes, including areas of significant regulatory focus or concern.
LCD Center of Excellence – Mumbai (LCD CoE) is a part of Global In-house Center, which provides global support to LCD and is an integral part of Firm and LCD strategy.
Primary Responsibilities (Day Job)
Outside Counsel Administration:
- Law firm vendor set up due diligence
- Outside Counsel Policy maintenance-uploading acceptances, exceptions, fee arrangements, rate cards to SharePoint and tracking on monthly basis
- Process rate approvals
- Real time maintenance of different databases
- Perform monthly and quarterly reporting
- Reconciliation of law firm inventory through different master data’s
- Support various risk management control implementation effort for law firms usage
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues
- Ensure projects and programs are proceeding according to scope, schedule and quality standards
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
- Develop and deliver proposals, requirements documentation and presentations for system enhancement
- Participation in testing of newly developed functionalities and reporting against them in timely manner.
- Identify and develop trusted adviser relationship with business stakeholders
- Act as an SME for outside counsel processes. Provide necessary training and guidance to the team.
- Escalate issues/troubleshoot as necessary to respective LCD contacts.
- Make recommendations on process improvements.
- Monitor law firms spend on continuous basis for determination of active engagement
- Invoicing/ rates- research/respond to standard queries
Other Requirements
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong project management and analytical skills
- Must be very organized and have a high level of attention to detail
- Ability to multitask
- Flexible in a changing work environment
- Ability to interact with Senior management across the firm
- Team player with the ability to work independently
- Proficient in MS Office Suite. Advanced Excel skills preferred
- Proven proficiency in problem resolution and demonstrates initiative/self-starter.
- Must follow documented procedures however must also have an ability to propose a plan or approach where procedure is undefined or may need to be updated.
- Ability to articulate key points clearly and succinctly in group meetings as well as 1-to-1
- Ability to manage and interact in a matrix organization is essential.
- Self-motivated and willing to assume responsibility.
- Individual will be required to interact with team members globally throughout the Firm
- Be a strong agent for change. Be able to facilitate new processes and standards that could impact working environment / culture.
- Strong interpersonal, problem solving, organizational and time management skills.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Managing client relationships and working as part of a distributed team
- Highly motivated; ability to drive project deliverable(s) to delivery
Coverage
- Monday to Friday from 30AM to 8.30PM and 1.30pm to 10.30PM India time with flexibility on standard working hours for time sensitive matters (including India Public Holidays).
- Periodic evening calls with US and EMEA internal clients and vendors
1.Years of exp – 1 to 3 yrs of exp
2.Contract duration – 6 months
3.Location – Goregaon, Mumbai
4.Shit timing – 11.30am to 8.30pm
5.Acceptable Notice Period – within 60 days
6.Hybrid/WFO - Hybrid
7.Must have skillset - a. Proficient in MS Office Suite. Advanced Excel skills preferred
b. Ability to interact with Senior management across the firm
c. Ability to multi task
d. Must follow documented procedures however must also have an ability to propose a plan or approach where procedure is undefined or may need to be updated
8.Good to have skillset – a. Team player with the ability to work independently
b. Proven proficiency in problem resolution and demonstrates initiative/self-starter
c. Highly motivated; ability to drive project deliverable(s) to delivery
d. Ability to articulate key points clearly and succinctly in group meetings as well as 1 to 1
- Strong interpersonal and demonstrates logical/rationale thinking
