Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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About the Role
In fast-changing markets, customers worldwide rely on the company, a business where brilliant people come together to share ideas and inspire each other. The role of Service Manager is pivotal in managing financial topics related to transition services agreements and ensuring alignment with the company’s goals while safeguarding the interests of the company against clients and providers.
Roles & Responsibilities
The focus of the portfolio would be to:
- Advise on a wide spectrum of duties related to legal & finance matters, including reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts for transition services agreements at a global level.
- Collaborate closely with the Program Director to identify areas of legal risk and effectively mitigate those risks across all projects and matters.
- Manage, liaise with, and instruct external counsels on consulting, IS/IT, and strategic matters.
- Work in conjunction with Group Corporate functions.
- Ensure compliance with changes in laws and regulations.
- Perform various day-to-day business, finance, and legal affairs-related tasks.
- Control and evaluate the program.
- Identify and raise risks on the program based on evaluation and scenarios.
- Manage relationships with vendors.
- Define the finance and legal strategy for providers in the program.
Work Experience Requirements
- Significant experience in drafting, negotiating, and/or advising on two or more of the following practice areas: Transactional Operations, Corporate M&A, and Corporate Finance.
Qualification, Certification & Educational Requirements
- A Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a relevant field.
- Professional qualifications in Legal & Finance.
Preferred Skills
- Strong communication and analytical skills to assess and articulate complex legal and finance issues clearly.
- Proven ability to work effectively as part of a team and autonomously, showing initiative and resourcefulness.
- Ability to take responsibility and manage tasks through to completion, adapting quickly to changing circumstances.
- Creative problem-solver capable of resolving complex issues efficiently and practically.
- Competence in handling high volumes of work with fluctuating priorities and under pressure.
- Provide legal advice in a succinct, pragmatic, and commercially aware manner.
- Plan and integrate work effectively with others.
- Solid experience in negotiating and advising on corporate financial law and risk management practices.
- Sound judgment to work within tight timelines.
- Excellent analytical, drafting, and negotiating skills with a high degree of professional ethics and integrity.
- Demonstrated ability as a solid team player while also being able to work independently.
- Excellent command of English.
- An analytical mind that is comfortable with numbers.
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