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Salt is hiring a ‘Contracting Officer’ who will be responsible for managing the full contract lifecycle for client onboarding, ensuring agreements are drafted, negotiated, and executed efficiently while meeting client expectations and adhering to risk and compliance standards. This is a 6-month contract role based in Singapore.
Job Responsibility:
Drive the contracting process from initial drafting through negotiation and execution for your portfolio of business and meet client expectations
Own a client channel, supervise the book of work for that channel including complexity assessment and case assignment, and find opportunities for process and client experience improvements
Facilitate and coordinate with internal partners across functions involved in the contracting process, ensuring their comments flow through to the contract and requisite approvals are acquired
Manage client expectations throughout the negotiation process
Ensure that the appropriate contracting process is followed to mitigate risk
Identify potential issues that are disseminated to potentially impacted internal stakeholders for review, discussion, negotiation and resolution
Capture and record relevant non-standard contractual clauses on an ongoing basis and maintain the contractual documentation database
Ensure that all completed contractual documentation is properly filed and circulated to relevant groups
Find opportunities for process and client experience improvements
Support the sales team with contractual documentation queries
Requirements:
Proven track record of drafting and negotiating sophisticated legal contracts
Ability to perform and deliver high quality legal contracts in a fast-paced environment
4-7 years relevant investment management experience preferred
Relevant legal qualification
Proven skills in successfully managing competing internal and external demands within timeframe
Knowledge of the asset management industry (fund types, client base and strategies, operational set up and products) and applicable law and regulations
Comfort in working with multiple systems to supervise and handle the contract negotiation lifecycle
Ability to independently handle tasks and workload with some guidance and oversight
Ability to think out of the box, to navigate sophisticated internal processes and functions, and be able to offer practical solutions
Strongly proficient in standard software (e.g. Microsoft Office) and interested in new technologies