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

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About TMF Group

TMF Group is a leading provider of critical administrative services, helping clients invest and operate safely around the world. We provide legal, financial and employee administration through TMF Group’s teams in 120 offices.

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.

Key Responsibilities

· 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.

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

Legal Counsel - North America and Caribbean