Job Description:
Our client, a leading global investment management firm, is looking for a Client Contracting Associate to join their team in Edinburgh.
The team is responsible for drafting and negotiating investment management agreements, investment guidelines, and other contractual arrangements between the firm and their new and existing clients.
Essential Skills/Experience:
* Legal qualification - Qualified Lawyer/Solicitor/Paralegal
* OR experience working in a contract management or negotiation type role
* Experience drafting and negotiating contracts is essential
* Excellent attention to detail, organisation, and presentation
* Knowledge of the asset management industry (fund types, client base and strategies, operational set up and products) and applicable law would be beneficial
* Strong awareness of process efficiency and the need to mitigate risk through the team
* Exemplary analytical, communication (verbal and written), and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with both internal and external clients at all levels
* Proven skills in successfully managing competing internal and external demands within compressed timeframes
Core Responsibilities:
* Accurate drafting, negotiation, and coordination of contractual documentation for Institutional Clients
* Facilitation and coordination of all internal SME stakeholders across different regions involved in the contracting process ensuring their comments flow through to the contract and requisite approvals are obtained
* Partnering with various teams to ensure contractual terms and minimize risk
* Ensuring that the appropriate contracting process is followed for all contract processing to mitigate risk to the firm
* Negotiating client documentation within the remit of the Client Contracting team, escalating appropriate risk where necessary
* Supporting the sales team with contractual documentation
* Communicating any contractual documentation changes to a client mandate to applicable internal teams
* Capturing and recording relevant non-standard contractual clauses on an ongoing basis and maintaining the contractual documentation
* Participating in research initiatives or projects that are requested by the sales, product, or legal
Benefits:
* A highly competitive salary
* Wider Benefits package
Core-Asset Consulting is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital/civil partner status or pregnancy.
Job reference: 16006
To apply for this vacancy, applicants must be eligible to work in the UK in accordance with the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.
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