The Global Product Documentation Negotiator will be part of a newly expanded function within the Fidelity Fund & Investment Operations group providing support for complex product agreement execution. There will be a focus on growing a more robust legal support function for complex Product Documentation (including ISDA, Futures & OTC Clearing, futures give up agreements, Cleared Derivative Execution Agreements (CDEA), MSFTA, & Collateral Control Agreements (CCA)).
The Expertise We're Looking For
- Bachelor's degree required
- 6+ years of experience in a role supporting legal documentation either with a paralegal background or operations documentation support for complex trade confirmations
- Experience with maintaining strong external and internal relationships, especially with legal, operations, and investment teams
- Ability to coordinate impact of core regulations such as Dodd Frank, EMIR, FATCA, MiFID II, FINRA, etc. on derivatives and other trading markets and ensure that agreements meet such regulatory requirements
- Ability to deconstruct, analyze, and negotiate a broad range of standard legal agreements but must also be comfortable adjusting to bespoke documentation structures where needed
The Purpose of Your Role
The negotiator will provide legal support to help prioritize and complete various legal documentation, regulatory projects, and digital tool implementation. This will involve extensive partnership with our internal legal, compliance, and AML colleagues while translating this expertise into clear written and verbal communication with our counterparty and custodian relationships.
The Skills You Bring
- Excellent written / oral communication, interpersonal, and relationship management skills
- Ability to build strong relationships externally with industry partners and internally across legal, various product groups, investment services, trading operations, and other operational groups across Asset Management and FFIO
- Your analytic and creativity skills to find compromise that meets the clients' needs while still protecting Fidelity
- Able to think out of the box and continuously strive for improvements
- Ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast- paced environment & handle large volume of work
- Attention to detail and focus on work product excellence
- Ability to work independently, while also being focused on the success of the team as a whole
- Strong understanding of legal documentation concepts, regulations, complex financial products, and risk management for global markets
The Value You Deliver
- Facilitate legal and regulatory readiness required for fund and client events for international markets and complex products
- Act as a liaison with banking relationships on behalf of Fidelity for legal documentation and regulatory adherence to ensure operational readiness
- Provide strong communication to our business partners
- Identify areas of process improvement to enhance our process and technology to increase our legal support
- Develop and maintain partnerships across the organization
How Your Work Impacts the Organization
Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services and offers investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, human resources, and benefits outsourcing services to individuals and institutions.
The Skills You Bring
- Excellent written / oral communication, interpersonal, and relationship management skills
- Ability to build strong relationships externally with industry partners and internally across legal, various product groups, investment services, trading operations, and other operational groups across Asset Management and FFIO
- Your analytic and creativity skills to find compromise that meets the clients' needs while still protecting Fidelity
- Able to think out of the box and continuously strive for improvements
- Ability to work independently and multi-task in a fast- paced environment & handle large volume of work
- Attention to detail and focus on work product excellence
- Ability to work independently, while also being focused on the success of the team as a whole
- Strong understanding of legal documentation concepts, regulations, complex financial products, and risk management for global markets
- Facilitate legal and regulatory readiness required for fund and client events for international markets and complex products
- Act as a liaison with banking relationships on behalf of Fidelity for legal documentation and regulatory adherence to ensure operational readiness
- Provide strong communication to our business partners
- Identify areas of process improvement to enhance our process and technology to increase our legal support
- Develop and maintain partnerships across the organization
How Your Work Impacts the Organization
Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services and offers investment management, retirement planning, brokerage, human resources, and benefits outsourcing services to individuals and institutions.
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