Contract Expert

About Us:

ACE Money Transfer is a UK-based multinational company headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom. ACE Money Transfer provides online remittance services to individuals in 28 countries across UK, Europe, Canada, and Australia, enabling them to send money across borders in over 100 countries.

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

1. Contract Drafting, Negotiation & Legal Advisory (Expert-Level Tasks)

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including vendor contracts, bank partnership agreements, SLAs, SaaS agreements, consultancy agreements, employment-related agreements, and NDAs.
• Draft and review terms and conditions for ACE products, services, platforms, and campaigns, ensuring clarity, enforceability, and regulatory compliance.
• Provide written and verbal legal opinions on contracts, including risk allocation, indemnity, limitation of liability, IP ownership, data protection clauses, cross-border contracting, and regulatory implications.
• Develop, refine, and maintain standardized contract templates (e.g., vendor, banking partner, consultant, NDA, T&Cs) to support consistent and efficient contracting across the Group.
• Support ACE Group entities (UK, Ireland, Pakistan, Europe) in contract structuring, contract due diligence, and review of counterparty paper.
• Assist the Manager – Corporate Governance & Legal Affairs in drafting and reviewing internal policies and procedures that relate to contracts and governance
• Collaborate with Operations, IT, HR, Marketing, Compliance, Finance, and Product teams to align contract terms with business requirements and operational realities.

2. Contract Repository Setup & Database Management (Operational Tasks)

• Implementing and supporting the transition to ACE’s centralized contract repository.
• Uploading executed contracts and entering accurate metadata, including:
  • Effective dates
  • Expiry and renewal dates
  • Auto-renewal terms
  • Contract parties
  • Jurisdiction
  • Contract value or key commercial terms
• Maintaining the contract repository with correct indexing, categorization, version control, and audit trail.
• Proactively tracking renewal and termination dates and notifying relevant departments well in advance.
• Maintaining logs of active, in-process, expired, terminated, or renegotiated contracts.
• Managing contract documentation, summaries, and archives to support regulatory, compliance, and audit requirements.

3. Cross-Functional Coordination & Reporting

• Serve as the central point of contact for all contract-related queries across departments.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to gather inputs, clarify requirements, and secure approvals on contract drafts and deviations.
• Prepare periodic summaries/trackers on contract status, renewals, and key risk points for reporting to the Manager – Corporate Governance & Legal Affairs and senior management.
• Support internal and external audit teams through contract documentation, version control evidence, and timely record retrieval.

Candidate Profile:

• Bachelor’s or preferably Master’s degree in Law, Business Law, or a related field.
• 4–5 years of experience in contract drafting, negotiation, and commercial advisory, corporate litigation, policy drafting, and terms and conditions drafting—ideally in a fintech, banking, or multinational environment.
• Strong legal drafting and analytical capability.
• Experience with contract management systems (Jira, SharePoint, CLM tools).
• Skilled in managing both complex legal agreements and operational contract lifecycle tasks.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills.
  
  ACE Money Transfer Profile: https://acemoneytransfer.com/company-profile