JOB DESCRIPTION

The Centre of Excellence Legal Team (COE) is the offshore legal support to JPMorgan legal teams globally supporting various lines of business. The successful candidate must have strong analytical and collaborative skills, be able to work independently as well as collaboratively within the team and be a true "self-starter." 

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.6 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small business, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at www.jpmorganchase.com. The JPMorgan Chase Legal Department is responsible for providing legal services to the firm.

About the Centre of Excellence Legal. 

The Centre of Excellence Legal Team (‘COE’) is the multi-disciplinary legal team supporting all lines of business including Commercial Banking, Consumer and Community Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking and Asset and Wealth Management across NAMR, EMEA and APAC (‘Global Legal Teams’). The successful candidate would have a strong legal analytical and collaborative skills, be able to work independently as well as collaboratively within the team and be a true "self-starter." 

Benefits of being part of Centre of Excellence Legal

Attorneys join us for more variety, more challenge, more flexibility and balance. Whatever your motivations, you can keep developing and progressing your career at the Centre of Excellence Legal. The Centre of Excellence Legal enables you to work on a variety of assignments and projects in different practice areas, thereby advancing your career and diversifying your experience. It can provide a fulfilling long-term career in itself, or it can be a way of gaining new skills to move towards your goal of a certain type of permanent role in the future. Through tailored and objective career advice and coaching, being part of COE Legal can help you understand your goals and ambitions, and what you want to achieve in your career and to support you in identifying the opportunities that are best for you.

Job Responsibilities: 

We are looking for an exceptional attorney with a strong passion for learning, drafting, negotiation in a broad spectrum of banking and commercial agreements. As a member of the COE Legal team, you will be assisting in the following:

1. Projects:

• Providing legal analysis and support on legal projects and documentation; 
• Review, draft and negotiate legal documents, and providing legal support to the Global Legal Teams (Strong technical knowledge in contracts is essential and knowledge of and experience with negotiations of  commercial contracts with strong attention to detail); 
• Collaborate and support of large, complex matters, deals or remediation projects.; and
• Provide gap analysis and summary of transaction and client specific deviations in negotiated agreements from standardized templates or against playbooks and policy manuals to identify discrepancies, escalation mechanisms and managing remediation exercises.

2. Automation & Technology Assimilation:

• Assist in the development of in-house tools for various Global Legal Teams to manage their tasks more effectively and efficiently; and
• Identifying potential projects/requests suitable for automation and work in tandem with the respective technology teams to provide solutions.

Required Qualifications, Skills and Capabilities:

• A law graduate from a premier law school in India;
• 2-4 Years PQE; 
• Strong drafting, negotiation and legal analytical skills;
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) with the ability to interact with senior business personnel and stakeholders in other functions;
• Competency in the use of technology, documentation management systems and shared databases will be viewed favorably;
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills;
• Ability to identify and escalate issues timely and appropriately;
• Comfortable working with metrics and data measurement systems; and
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and within tight deadlines.