Center of Excellence

**JOB DESCRIPTION**

**About the Centre of Excellence Legal.**

**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.

**Primary Responsibilities will include : -**

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.

**Qualifications for the role**:

- 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.

**CONFLICTS OF INTEREST**:
**ABOUT US**

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

With large, global operations, the Legal team tackles complex issues and helps shape the regulations that affect the businesses. The group is organized into practice groups that align with the lines of business and corporate staff areas, which encourages collaboration on legal, regulatory and business developments as they arise.