Champs Group - Manager - Legal

Manager Legal - NBFC/Banking (Lending & Investment)

- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating transactional documents covering revenue based financing, loans, debenture subscriptions.

- Review and rendering of advice on transaction structures from a regulatory perspective.

- Drafting of various processes and standardization of templates.

- Co-ordinating with external counsels for advisory and related matters.

- Must be familiar with lending and post default Sec 138

- Assist in due diligence processes.

- Managing overall corporate legal activities of the company.

- Contribute towards knowledge management and building of the team from a legal and regulatory perspective.

- Actively coordinate with internal teams to ensure smooth transaction closure and implementation of processes where relevant.

- Preparation of high-quality initial documentation which requires minimal modifications.

- Undertaking of transactions independently with limited guidance/ overview.

- Assistance in execution of transactions.

- Research on applicable statutory and regulatory norms, precedents and market practices

Primary Responsibilities :

- Establishing and implement the legal process

- Manage a high-pressure work environment, responding to the needs of a fast-growing business

- Always be on the cutting edge of legal developments and disseminate to the wider organization important

trends on aspects including but not limited to:

- Technology and impact on financial services

- Regulatory norms applicable to the organization

- Legal regime surrounding the services and products offered by the organization

- Retail finance

- Consumer protection frameworks and applicability to the company

- FEMA

- Taxation

- Asset management

- Equity investments.

- Assist in development and implementation of scalable internal policies on:

- Risk management

- Recovery processes

- Evaluation of collateral

- Conflict of interest

- Consumer protection

- Other internal processes.

- Identify competitive advantages and legal / regulatory trends for the benefit of a company.

- Be responsible for real time resolution and to deliver key requirements confirming to specified timelines

and client requirements.

- Ensure delivery of high quality work customized to meet specific client and business requirements, meeting

the best market standards.

- Communicate effectively and unambiguously with all internal and external stakeholders.

- Build own negotiating capabilities.

- Work in a collaborative manner to benefit from the collective wisdom and deal experience of the market,

while retaining own discretion.

- Assist in preparation of and ensure implementation of sound processes that realize hygiene around all

activities including data management, confidentiality, drafting standards.

- Assist the team in developing well researched positions and practices and in rendering sound advice for

undertaking transactions

Desired Skills:

- Good technical knowledge of laws pertaining to the field of banking and finance.

- Excellent and in-depth research skills.

- Possess a highly solution oriented and business focused approach and always play an enabling role for business.

- Have excellent drafting, and reviewing skills, be adept at problem solving, running large deals till closure and possess the ability to prepare high quality and well drafted documents.

- Ability to understand business requirements and how this would translate to requirements from the legal team.

- Have impeccable integrity, work ethics and ability to maintain strict confidentiality.

- Ability to present / articulate / position an idea compellingly.

- Be as ambitious as we are, and hence willing to travel, go out of her/his way to build at the highest quality, burn the midnight oil to meet goals and deadlines.

- Have demonstrated resilience - stayed with companies with minimal/ no switch in jobs.

- Willingness to learn quickly, including the commercial and structural aspects of products and effectively implement such learning.

- Reliability for timely and effective completion of work allocated.