Contracting Officer

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.

Responsibilities

• 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

CEI No: R1763696 | Licence No: 07C3147

Salt is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.