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Title and Summary

Associate Specialist, Legal Services (Rosetta Contract)

Job Title:

Associate Specialist, Legal Services (eligible for Rosetta/First employment contract)

Overview:

Mastercard Legal Generalist team, part of the LFI Business Unit, provide legal support to LFI and business partners across Mastercard. The current scope of services includes end-to-end contracting tool support for Europe region, corporate housekeeping, and Board management support. The position is based in Waterloo

Role:

As an Associate Specialist within the legal team, you will collaborate with awesome colleagues in the legal department to give a pan-European support to our European business and to be the point of contact between the legal team, our legal partners, and our clients.

As an insight, the Associate Specialist:
•\tManages the Corporate Housekeeping part of the Company and work with the Company legal services provider to maintain the company’s legal files up to date to ensure compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, policies and procedures
•\tProvides paralegal and contract administrative support to legal specialists and legal generalists to enable Mastercard to achieve its strategic objectives
•\tReviews, collates, and compiles information including assisting in legal documents/contracts/matters
•\tMaintains and documents status of all existing and new legal documents/contracts/matters and tools
•\tContent management within MC/Law Department database with copies of legal documents and information related to our entities.
•\tAnalyses and draws legal report from the available legal tools
•\tMay assist in administrative activities related to training sessions and/or events conducted by the Law Department


Qualifications

•\tYou are eligible for a Rosetta contract/First employment contract
•\tBachelor’s Degree in (para) legal studies
•\tGood legal and analytical and problem-solving skills
•\tAbility to manage workloads involving different tasks of varying priority and complexity
•\t Ability to deliver on a timely basis
•\tComfortable interacting with stakeholders at various levels and be an excellent communicator
•\tTeam player with excellent communication and people skills
•\tStructured, results driven and solution oriented
•\tStress tolerant, motivated and proactive
•\tExcellent written and verbal skills in English
•\tAny additional European language will be considered an asset
•\tExcellent command of MS Office tools

Corporate Security Responsibility

All activities involving access to Mastercard assets, information, and networks comes with an inherent risk to the organization and, therefore, it is expected that every person working for, or on behalf of, Mastercard is responsible for information security and must:

Abide by Mastercard’s security policies and practices;

Ensure the confidentiality and integrity of the information being accessed;

Report any suspected information security violation or breach, and

Complete all periodic mandatory security trainings in accordance with Mastercard’s guidelines.