Legal Contract Specialist, Financial Services

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What We'll Bring:
Provides advanced legal assistance to in-house counsel and internal clients with primary responsibility for transactional legal matters. Works on contracts, project management, internal legal process management, special assignments and general legal matters.

Responsibilities will assisting in development, drafting, review, redlining, and negotiation of contracts in support of business unit(s) in a high-volume, fast paced contract negotiation environment.

Education: Bachelor's degree in Legal, Business Administration or related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Advanced degree or advanced certification in legal profession or paralegal studies strongly preferred.

• 3 - 5 years of relevant experience in business transactions and contract review, redlining, negotiation required.
• An understanding of business-to-business agreements, project management, internal legal process management, and general legal matters.
• Possesses the ability to make decisions independently, prioritize effectively within a fast-paced environment, and change priorities when sense of urgency is required.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills (notably extensive experience working with negotiating and redlining documents in Microsoft Word), and other technical skills.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills. Advanced English skills are required.

• Prior roles requiring autonomy and judgment while supporting a broader legal team.
• Experience working with a contract management system or similar technology strongly preferred.
• Experience in lending, data or technology companies, or at a consumer-reporting agency preferred.
• Experience negotiating B2B sales contracts, ideally including master services agreements, including amendments, addenda, pricing, or statements of work.
• An understanding of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act or experience in the automotive or mortgage industries not required but preferable.

• Review, summarize, and redline contracts with external customers for TransUnion and affiliated entities.
• Work closely with supervising attorneys to provide assistance on contractual and legal related matters in support of the business unit.
• Handle primary support and negotiation for all sales contract negotiations for the business unit including but not limited to identifying the appropriate contract, drafting agreements, redlining agreements, negotiating agreements, guiding the contract through to full execution, and managing amendments and renewals.
• Develop an understanding of the products and services sold under the agreements you negotiate and the legal, data protection, and regulatory requirements of these products or services.
• Function as a project management "liaison" between internal business teams (sales, operations, information security, privacy, product, finance, etc.) and the Legal Team.
• Provide visibility for management and internal business teams into the status and progress of contract reviews and negotiations with new and existing customers.
• Develop and maintain all legal project related materials (e.g. action plans, tracking tools, playbooks, process documents).
• Review, update, create and maintain various contract forms and templates.
• Propose solutions to problems identified for discussion with supervising attorneys.
• Serve as a central point of contact regarding contracts for the internal business teams.
• Perform special projects to support the Legal Team.
• Manage internal contract approvals and assist with data entry of all customer contractual documentation.