Reviews, drafts, and negotiates complex financial services agreements, including ISDA, CSA, and Repo documents. Manages client deliverables, identifies risks, oversees contract review teams, trains negotiators, communicates with clients, and supports project execution. The role requires meticulous analysis, strong judgment, deadline management, and independent client-facing experience in a professional services environment.
With a legacy as a pioneer in the ALSP market, Factor leads the next evolution in legal services through AI-integrated contracting.
Factor is the market leader in Integrated Law™, combining the expertise of Traditional Law, the efficiency of New Law, and the close business integration of In-house legal to deliver complex legal work at scale.
Factor works alongside corporate legal departments to solve for the ever-increasing demands and complexity of transactional legal work. Our "do while transforming, transform while doing" approach combines specialist expertise, AI-powered solutions, and business process knowledge to deliver better performance, better business and legal outcomes, and a transformed contracting experience.
Our clients span Fortune 500 companies including global banks, major pharmaceutical companies and large technology firms.
We believe that the more diverse our team becomes — in backgrounds, skills, experiences, and perspectives — the higher our creative potential as a company. We are dedicated to growing a diverse, inclusive company where individuals of all backgrounds thrive.
We are comprised of more than 300 lawyers, legal specialists, technologists, and process consultants across Europe and North America – Join us!
THE ROLE:
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Associate to join our Belfast Office. You will be responsible for reviewing agreements and handling escalations. We’re currently working through a large volume of contracts for a banking client, and we’re looking for someone who has experience negotiating end capital market documentation, specifically ISDA, CSA and Repo agreement types.
If you believe in being a team player, can collaborate and communicate well with technical and non-technical audiences while bringing a result-driven, focused, high energy, confident, curious, and most of all fun sense of self, then this is the place for you.
Specifically, the Negotiator will:
Manage client-facing deliverables to the highest standards of quality
Identify risks and issues and develop appropriate mitigation plans
Pro-actively manage and monitor execution of deliverables and status
Assist with the management of the projects critical path, dependencies, and contingencies
Ensure the project stakeholders' expectations are understood and managed
Oversee the adherence to all Factor’s Methodologies and quality assurance processes
Review large volume of contracts efficiently and accurately, working closely with the team to achieve a high-quality output
Read complex agreements, including financial services documents with meticulous attention to detail, while analyzing and extracting key information
Lead and train contract review teams, implementing best practice
Communicate with clients, maintaining excellent communication skills and a professional and warm approach
Effectively and efficiently operate in a deadline driven environment, with high attention to detail, in order to meet client expectations
Contribute to building Factor’s proprietary Intellectual Property in the rapidly changing Managed Contracts Services business area
Be comfortable in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy and accountability
Be an outstanding team player and embody and live our core values to foster our unique culture
QUALIFICATIONS:
- QUALIFICATIONS:
- You are adaptable, authentic, accountable, and values-driven. You’re a team player who exhibits personal leadership and leaves things better than you found them. We’re looking for someone who always gives their best and inspires others to do the same.
- Undergraduate degree
- Independent experience of drafting and negotiating end-to-end ISDA, CSA and Repo agreements necessary
- Client facing experience within a Professional Services firm and a strong focus on client needs
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Strong time management, judgment, decision-making and problem solving skills
- Thrives in both individual and collaborative team environments
- High-impact communication and presentation skills
- Proficiency with the Microsoft Office suite (including PowerPoint and Excel. MS Project experience highly advantageous)
- Organizational fit for the Factor culture - exhibiting the core values of Authenticity, Accountability, Adaptability and Stewardship
- Legally eligible to work in the country in which the role is located
- Prime Brokerage experience
In addition to the above, here are the required skills, knowledge, capabilities, and education for this role:
Essential Criteria:
Desirable Criteria:
Additional Information
As a member of an ISO Compliant center, the candidate will be required to follow the policies and procedures on Information Security Management System in place at the Center of Excellence and globally at Factor. As a member of the Factor team, the applicant will have access to various company and client assets and will be required to maintain the level of security as identified for each asset.
Factor is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For more, visit: factor.law
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