Legal Counsel

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.

Job Description

Legal Counsel

Locations: London | Hybrid

Get To Know Us:

Our legal counsel team provide general legal advice, negotiate commercial contracts with clients/suppliers and support to the SS&C Group’s business units across a multitude of disciplines and EMEA jurisdictions.

Why You Will Love It Here:

• Flexibility: Hybrid work model
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive holiday scheme
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support the wellbeing of our staff
• Diversity & Inclusion: Committed to welcoming, celebrating and thriving on diversity
• Training: Hands-on, team-customised throughout your career

What You Will Get To Do:

Commercial Contracts

To review, draft and negotiate legal agreements with clients, suppliers and other counterparties;

Governance & Legal Risk Management

To assist with the maintenance and enforcement of SS&C Group Policies and procedures, in particular those governing the signature of contracts;

HR Support

To provide advice and support to the HR team in connection with staff disputes, claims, grievances and other legal issues arising;

Dispute Resolution

To provide advice on disputes and claims between the company and third parties;

Company Secretarial

To assist, if required, with mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and other corporate activity.

What You Will Bring:

• Admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. This role is an exciting opportunity for lawyers NQ up to 3 years PQE experience.
• Ability to negotiate and draft commercial contracts and contribute to setting up precedents and processes.
• Excellent communication skills and pride in your work.
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage a heavy workload and to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to build strong and trusted relationships with internal clients, including sales and commercial teams.
• Good knowledge, and an excellent user, of Microsoft Word and legal databases. Other suite application knowledge is an advantage.
• An interest in adopting new technology and openness to changing ways of working. Familiarity with leading AI tools for legal work is an advantage.
• Good working knowledge of the law impacting the financial sector both in the UK and globally, including data protection law.

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.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.