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About the Role

Our legal counsel team provides general legal advice, negotiates commercial contracts with clients/suppliers, and supports SS&C Group’s business units across multiple disciplines and EMEA jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, and negotiate legal agreements with clients, suppliers, and other counterparties.
• Assist with the maintenance and enforcement of SS&C Group Policies and procedures, particularly those governing contract signatures.
• Provide advice and support to the HR team regarding staff disputes, claims, grievances, and other legal issues.
• Advise on disputes and claims between the company and third parties.
• Assist, if required, with mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, and other corporate activities.

Requirements

• Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales.
• Ability to negotiate and draft commercial contracts and contribute to setting up precedents and processes.
• Excellent communication skills and pride in work.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and manage a heavy workload and meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to build strong and trusted relationships with internal clients, including sales and commercial teams.
• Good knowledge and excellent user of Microsoft Word and legal databases.
• An interest in adopting new technology and openness to changing ways of working.
• Good working knowledge of the law impacting the financial sector both in the UK and globally, including data protection law.

Skills

• Commercial contracts
• Governance & Legal Risk Management
• HR Support
• Dispute Resolution
• Company Secretarial
• Microsoft Word
• Legal databases
• AI tools for legal work
• UK financial sector law
• Global financial sector law
• Data protection law

Location

• London

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• NQ up to 3 years PQE

Education Level

• Solicitor in England and Wales

Benefits

• Competitive holiday scheme
• Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff

About the Company

• SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely.
• Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide.
• More than 23,000 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.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.
• 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.