Legal Associate

🌍 How does Finalis work?

• We are a fully-remote company with Finalists distributed between the time zones of Eastern Standard Time and Eastern European Time .

• If you’re located outside this time zone range, depending on the needs of your team, you may be requested to be available during specific hours.

• Although we don’t have an official physical place to work, we promote gathering with your team or other colleagues whenever possible. 

🤝 What about your team and role?

As a Legal Associate at Finalis, you will be a critical member of the Legal team, supporting the company's legal operations and helping ensure compliance in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Sitting between junior execution and senior legal strategy, this role combines hands-on legal work with cross-functional coordination, supporting both internal teams and client-facing legal needs.

You will collaborate closely with Legal, Compliance, Customer Success, and Growth teams to provide legal guidance, support contract lifecycle management, and maintain internal governance standards. You will also be involved in enhancing legal processes and tools to ensure scalability and efficiency as the company grows.

✨ What will you be doing?

Legal Operations & Internal Support

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of legal agreements (e.g., NDAs, vendor contracts, engagement letters).

• Maintain, organize, and update contract templates and legal documentation, ensuring version control and regulatory compliance.

• Support contract lifecycle management, including execution, storage, deadline tracking, and renewals.

• Collaborate with Compliance to ensure regulatory alignment and policy adherence (especially FINRA-related).

• Act as a liaison across teams (Customer Success, Compliance, and Growth) to align legal workflows with business priorities.

• Monitor and interpret relevant legal developments and support internal implementation of changes.

• Help maintain Finalis’ centralized Document Management System (DMS) and legal knowledge base.

• Support training and onboarding sessions to improve legal literacy across the company.
  

Client-Facing Legal Support

• Review and provide input on transaction documents such as:

  • Engagement Letters (buy-side and sell-side)

  • Placement Agent Agreements

  • Inter-Broker Agreements
    NDAs

• Engage in moderate complexity negotiations with clients and external stakeholders.

• Assist in onboarding new clients from a legal perspective and respond to client questions with sound legal judgment.

• Ensure legal documentation meets internal standards and compliance obligations.
  

Process Improvement & Collaboration

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of legal operations, including playbooks, process automation, and knowledge-sharing systems.

• Identify process inefficiencies and propose improvements to optimize legal service delivery.

• Escalate complex matters to senior legal leadership while providing preliminary analysis and context.

💬 Who are we looking for?

• 4–6 years of legal experience, ideally with exposure to both in-house and law firm environments.

• Licensed attorney with strong knowledge of U.S. commercial law and financial services regulations (FINRA familiarity is a strong plus).

• Experience in contract negotiation, review, and management—particularly in a regulated or high-growth environment.

• Strong written and spoken English with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Proficient in Google Workspace; familiarity with legal ops tools like CLM platforms, Jira, or CRM systems is a plus.

• Comfortable working independently, managing multiple priorities, and adjusting to a rapidly changing environment.

• A proactive, solutions-oriented team player with excellent attention to detail and a high sense of ownership.

🌟 What do we offer?

• 100% Remote work (Work from wherever you want!)

• Competitive USD salary 

• Generous Paid time-off (Vacation Time!)

• Additional 17 Flex Days (to use in national holidays or personal matters)

• Professional Growth Benefits in our E-Learning Platform (Coursera) (take your skills to the next level!) 🚀

• People Team Partner (to target your roadblocks and customize an action plan for your career path)

• Buddy Program

• Virtual After-Office Activities 

• Diverse Culture & Inclusive environment

• Benefits Package