Senior Associate - Commercial Contracts

Core Details and Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate - Commercial Contracts, you will report to the Director, Group General Counsel.

You will have a pivotal role in ensuring the seamless integration of the legal function into business development, sales, onboarding and operations. You will be an interface with clients in terms of contracting for proposals, dealing with onboarding requirements, including due diligence, KYC, AML requirements.

• Translating prospective client engagements into operational contracts, including Administration Services Agreements and International Business Company Terms and Conditions.
• Leading contract negotiations with internal stakeholders (business teams, relationship Contracts Managers, etc.) to ensure contracts are legally compliant and reflect the company’s risk appetite and commercial intent.
• Coordinating interdepartmental workflows to ensure timely document execution, centralized contract storage, and effective retrieval of key contractual terms.
• Maintaining and optimizing the company’s internal Contract Management System. This includes oversight of all service agreements, terms of business, NDAs, SLAs, and vendor contracts to ensure accuracy, legal integrity, and alignment with commercial objectives.
• Developing and maintaining a ‘Client Control Sheet’ to log critical contract terms that affect internal operational and compliance teams.
• Managing an ‘Exceptions Matrix’ to record deviations from standard terms, supporting consistent legal positions and reducing contract risk variability.
• You will play an integral role in shaping the legal-commercial interface across the business, contributing to legal strategy, operational effectiveness, and governance outcomes.
• Being fully engaged in the various jurisdictional offices of the group and creating operational manuals for each jurisdiction based on legal, statutory, and governance requirements
• Share insights to enable development of new processes and procedures that create business efficiency and support delivery of client excellence in service
• Maintain awareness of industry, regulatory, jurisdictional, and other trends that could affect the business.
• Contribute to the creation, development, and implementation of new products and solutions to accommodate the business's continuously changing needs
• Collaborate cross-functionally with operations staff, business users, project, and implementation Contracts Managers to achieve desired and elegant solutions

• As a Senior Associate - Commercial Contracts - Compliance, Legal & Governance (Legal) you will report to the Group General (Legal) Counsel.
• As Senior Associate - Commercial Contracts, you will play a pivotal role in onboarding new clients and maintaining the legal framework of existing clients of Catalyst, keeping abreast of all structural, fee and underlying fund changes.
• As in-house counsel you will be embedding legal, governance, and compliance principles into the operational and commercial fabric of a fund administration business. This role is central to executing company policies related to legal contracting, client onboarding, risk management, and regulatory compliance. Operating at the intersection of legal execution and business enablement, you will ensure that contracting processes are aligned with both regulatory obligations and commercial imperatives.
• You will work closely with senior legal leadership, including the Group General Counsel, to uphold the company’s legal standards across jurisdictions while facilitating the efficient delivery of legal services within business units. With a broad remit spanning legal operations, strategy, and governance, you will contribute directly to the company’s success by ensuring that legal risk is proactively managed and that contractual infrastructure supports scalable, compliant growth.

The following are the tasks linked to the Core Responsibilities that will be expected as part of this role.

1. Legal Expertise and Business Development:

Includes (but are not limited to) the following tasks:

• Product & Service Knowledge:
  Develop a deep understanding of the company's…