Legal Counsel

Job description
About Serrala

Serrala is a fast-growing global B2B Fintech software company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Serrala optimizes the universe of payments for organizations that seek efficient cash visibility and secure financial processes. Serrala supports over 2,500 companies worldwide with advanced technology and personalized consulting to optimize all processes that manage incoming and outgoing payments: from order-to-cash, procure-to-pay, and treasury to data and document management. Serrala is represented on three continents with 12 regional offices in Europe, North America, and Asia. With over 750 employees/Serralians dedicated to service companies of all industry sectors - from medium-sized companies to global players, covering 20% of Fortune 500 and 50% of DAX 30 (German stock index) companies, Serrala continues to expand.

Serrala is working on a bold and innovative plan to develop its next-generation cloud-native enterprise payments solution. To achieve this vision, a new Center of Excellence was created in Pune in 2019. The Pune CoE boasts of cross functional teams that build SaaS products from scratch, onboard customers and offer post-implementation support. We are a rapidly growing organization, and this is your opportunity to join us in our growth journey.

Legal Counsel

You will be working as In-House Legal Counsel and become part of Serrala’s global Legal and Compliance Team dedicated to enable Serrala’s various development and sales activities. As integral part of a dedicated team of lawyers and legal professionals from different regions and jurisdictions, we are in constant exchange and integrated in all operational activities that require legal advice.

As a Legal Counsel at Serrala, you will report directly to our global General Counsel. You will coordinate and provide legal guidance, support our technological and business teams. You can collaborate with other Serralians to develop policies, practices, and guidelines under Indian law and international trade and commercial standards.

As currently only fully qualified lawyer in India, you can help to shape the future development of our Indian legal organization. In addition, you will be first trusted contact for our local management, to give legal advice on various matters of local law and regulation.

Key Responsibilities

Your key focus will lie on negotiating complex on-premises software and SaaS agreements with our customers, in North America, the EU, APAC, and many other regions and jurisdictions, always in close alignment with our sales and consulting representatives.

You are also responsible for drafting and negotiating a variety of IT-service, purchase and procurement agreements, company policies and service descriptions, as well as other project and commercial agreements and legal documents including company housekeeping documents. You will maintain and enhance Serralas contract archive and coordinate complex projects in cross-departmental teams and advise them on a wide range of legal topics.

With your expertise in Indian Law, you can also be the primary legal contact for our Regional Management in India with advice on all legal matters related to our local activities including HR law, property, procurement, and administrative law.

Requirements

Desired skills

Solid background:
• You have a full Indian legal education, with:
• Graduation from a public or accredited private university or law school,
• B.A. and practice in Law, or B.A. and LL.M., or JD, and
• Admitted as solicitor (or at least passed all respective exams and qualifications).
• You have studied at a distinguished University and graduated with above-average exams or honors.
• You have acquired relevant experience in an established law firm or worked in the legal department of an international company.

Professional Expertise:
• You have relevant professional and working experience in TMT or IP/IT law, and experience in negotiating software contracts on the seller and buyer side.
• You have at least 3 years of experience as In-house lawyer in an established Legal Team.

Communication skills:
• You have a business-fluent command of written and spoken legal English.

Personality
• Are you collaborative, creative and communicative.
• You think one step ahead and are able to solve problems independently, quickly and professionally.
• We are looking for supportive team-players with hands-on mentality, enthusiasm, and empathy that works well together with colleagues from different teams and backgrounds.
• You are passionate about technology, software, and automation.

We offer
• A career in a growing global B2B Fintech software company.
• An opportunity to become a “Serralian” and help shape our strategic venture in India and to have real impact on our Indian business organization.
• Low hierarchy with fast decision making and a “get things done” culture. We are organized by passion and expertise rather than by location.
• A wide range of opportunities for your career development and growth, including potential lead of growing legal organization in India.
• A strong positive culture with regular celebrations of our success.
• Fun, casual, relaxed and flexible work environment.