Overview
Legal Counsel Jobs in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates at Al Etihad Payments
Title: Legal Counsel
Company: Al Etihad Payments
Location: Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Legal Counsel
Al Etihad Payments empowers employees to work in an environment that best promotes their productivity and well-being, while providing high-quality workplace and fantastic professional experience.
Get to know Us
Al Etihad Payments is the UAE’s designated retail payments entity, dedicated to developing and operating world-class infrastructure, standards, and solutions for the UAE Economy. Al Etihad Payments is a subsidiary of the Central Bank of the UAE, strongly supported by the UAE Government.
Our employees are committed to work with licensed financial institutions and other payment service providers to foster innovation and deliver excellent financial services to all in the UAE, efficiently and without friction.
Al Etihad Payments supports the government’s objectives of a cashless society, national digitization, and the Central Bank of the UAE objective of being a top ten central bank globally.
Our Culture
We are a collaborative, diverse and passionate group of individuals that works as one team. We support one another, make impactful contributions to the organization, and develop and nurture meaningful connections across the payment’s ecosystem!
About the role
Legal Counsel drafts contact templates and reviews contracts of other departments, supports legal cases filed by the AEP or against it. He/she analysis legal risks for the AEP and develops a mitigation plan.
Responsibilities
Draft, review, negotiate and advise on the preparation of contracts and other legal agreements
Support continuous improvement of standard from agreements, contact management and legal processes
Prepare, manage, and control legal cases filled by, and against, the AEP, draft litigation memo and legal notices in both Arabic and English
Provide legal opinion in regard to all existing and potential liabilities related to the AEP
Manage relationships with extremal local and international low firms
Prepare all required documents, application forms
Develop legal policies, plans, procedures
Deliver trainings for departments to increase awareness and skills in relation to contract management and legal risk
Minimum Qualifications
10 years of work experience in related area
Bachelors Degree or Master’s Degree faculty of law
Experience in managing legal department is a must
Previous experience in payment services is a plus
Prior experience in technology industry is a plus
Technical and Behavioral Skills
Flexible, positive and results-oriented attitude, works well with changing timelines and priorities and can proactively manage up
Ability to gather and synthesize complex information, make sound tactical decisions, and communicate such information in a clear, simple way to a variety of audiences, ranging from senior executives to working-level analysts and technical specialists
Project management skills with the ability to manage multiple activities with both internal and external stakeholders
Professional fluency in written and spoken English: Arabic is a plus
What you can expect from us
Modern work environment with level of flexibility;
Dynamic and motivated team of colleagues working towards achieving UAE National Objectives;
Competitive compensation package, including annual bonus and additional benefits like child educational allowance and annual flight tickets (where eligible);
Comprehensive health insurance coverage;
