Legal Counsel- North America and Caribbean

at  TMF Group

Job no: 571705
Work type: Full time
Location: Toronto, Canada
Categories: Group Legal & Risk
Office Location: Canada - Toronto

SUMMARY:

This Group Director Legal / Market Head of Legal will report directly to the Global Head of Legal – Business and Global Head of Legal – Corporate. You will be part of our Global Legal Function and the Global Legal Management Team. Global Legal is a centralised global function which delivers efficient high-quality legal solutions and provides assurance on the oversight and control of legal risks throughout TMF Group. We are developing from a classic service delivery model to partnering with the business, supporting, and ensuring long-term continuity and compliance with local laws and regulations.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• A qualified lawyer with at least [10-12] years of legal work experience, preferably both in-house and in a law firm.
• Have knowledge of corporate law and contracting law.
• Have affinity with financial and administrative services.
• Excellent command of English.
• Experienced people/team manager.
• With demonstrated experience in and capability of working collaboratively across departments, time zones and cultures.
• Understand the business needs and the importance of legal risk management; able to integrate legal risk management and legal service delivery smoothly in daily legal activities.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to reach consensus with diverse and cross-functional stakeholders.
• A leader and a team player – ambitious, proactive, solution-oriented, persuasive, with a hands-on mentality.
• Have strong analytical skills and able to quickly identify the interests involved in a case, while constructively safeguarding and representing the interests of the market.
• Able to make trusted judgement calls and possess a professional and independent decision-making ability.
• Excellent communication (verbal and written) and influencing skills.
• Organised; able to work on diverse large workload and handle competing priorities.
• Able to articulate challenging strategic visions and increase engagement to achieve targets.
• Strive for operational excellence and continuous improvement
  Advertised: 22 Apr 2024 Eastern Daylight Time
  Applications close: 23 May 2024 Eastern Daylight Time

• Actively participate in relevant local board, committee, market management and regional management meetings, advising on legal matters.
• Actively participate in Global Legal Management Team and global and regional Business Legal meetings.
• Ensure alignment of legal budgeting matters in close collaboration with finance, market and regional management and Global Heads of Legal.
• Update Group Legal, market and regional management on legal developments.
• Work with the market and regional management in operationalizing and embedding effective controls and practices.
• Implement and monitor the adherence to global legal policies, procedures, standards, and local applicable legal requirements.
• Proactively advise on and support the market and regional management with the following legal topics: data privacy, cosec, local client contracting, strategic regulatory advice, procurement, legal entity management, various registrations, intercompany agreements, HR support and audit finding remediation.
• Responsible for advising on correspondence with (regulatory) authorities and escalate to Group Legal and/or market and regional management when necessary.
• Work with the data privacy team to ensure that the markets in the region establish adequate governance on data processing activities prevent/handle data breaches appropriately to prevent/mitigate the legal risk.
• Work with the Group Corporate & Claims to ensure timely reporting of legal cases and control of related external spend.
• Work with Group Global Client Contracting to ensure the implementation of local service agreement templates and standards in the markets and timely escalations in accordance with the applicable approval matrix.
• Ensure delivery of Global Legal priorities & objectives in the markets through operationalising strategy, resolving bottlenecks, and reporting accurately on a quarterly basis.