Senior Associate, Financial Services Documentation

With a legacy as a pioneer in the ALSP market, Factor leads the next evolution in legal services through AI-integrated contracting.

Factor is the market leader in Integrated Law™, combining the expertise of Traditional Law, the efficiency of New Law, and the close business integration of In-house legal to deliver complex legal work at scale.

Factor works alongside corporate legal departments to solve for the ever-increasing demands and complexity of transactional legal work. Our "do while transforming, transform while doing" approach combines specialist expertise, AI-powered solutions, and business process knowledge to deliver better performance, better business and legal outcomes, and a transformed contracting experience.

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THE ROLE:

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Associate to join our Belfast Office. You will be responsible for reviewing agreements and handling escalations. We’re currently working through a large volume of contracts for a banking client, and we’re looking for someone who has experience negotiating end capital market documentation, specifically ISDA, CSA and Repo agreement types.

If you believe in being a team player, can collaborate and communicate well with technical and non-technical audiences while bringing a result-driven, focused, high energy, confident, curious, and most of all fun sense of self, then this is the place for you.

Specifically, the Negotiator will:

Manage client-facing deliverables to the highest standards of quality

Identify risks and issues and develop appropriate mitigation plans

Pro-actively manage and monitor execution of deliverables and status

Assist with the management of the projects critical path, dependencies, and contingencies

Ensure the project stakeholders' expectations are understood and managed

Oversee the adherence to all Factor’s Methodologies and quality assurance processes

Review large volume of contracts efficiently and accurately, working closely with the team to achieve a high-quality output

Read complex agreements, including financial services documents with meticulous attention to detail, while analyzing and extracting key information

Lead and train contract review teams, implementing best practice

Communicate with clients, maintaining excellent communication skills and a professional and warm approach

Effectively and efficiently operate in a deadline driven environment, with high attention to detail, in order to meet client expectations

Contribute to building Factor’s proprietary Intellectual Property in the rapidly changing Managed Contracts Services business area

Be comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy and accountability

Be an outstanding team player and embody and live our core values to foster our unique culture