Job Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. We deliver award winning enterprise software solutions through the use of embedded digital innovation and a single cloud-based platform to help businesses be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™.

At IFS, we're flexible, we're innovative, and we're focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society's greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and accept that there are so many different perspectives in this world. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We're looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.

If you want to change the status quo, we'll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

The Senior Legal Counsel will support the full remit of the Global Head across three areas: the global disputes portfolio, financing and capital markets activity, and legal delivery on the company's high-profile strategic programs.

This is a senior individual contributor role. The postholder owns assigned matters end-to-end — including direct instruction of external counsel and direct engagement with business stakeholders.

Responsibilties

Disputes

• Assist on assigned litigation, arbitration, and pre-contentious matters from intake through resolution: fact development, document collection, witness preparation, and management of instructed counsel
• Prepare matter assessments, exposure analysis, and reserve recommendations for review by the Global Head
• Draft and negotiate settlement documentation; manage litigation holds and disclosure obligations
• Track matter budgets and external counsel performance; flag variances early

Capital Markets

• Support debt financing and refinancing workstreams: review and mark up credit agreements, amendments, security and guarantee documents; manage condition-precedent and closing checklists
• Coordinate legal diligence across jurisdictions and functions; consolidate responses to lender enquiries

Strategic Initiatives

• Act as embedded legal support on assigned strategic and transformation programs; attend workstream meetings and translate program decisions into legal requirements
• Coordinate specialist input (commercial, corporate, employment, privacy, regulatory) and consolidate it into a single position for the business
• Maintain the legal issues and dependencies log for assigned programs, escalating blockers with a recommended path
• Produce first-draft governance, approval, and risk materials for program steering committees

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with 6–10 years' post-qualification experience, in-house or in practice
• Strong transactional grounding: drafting and negotiating commercial and/or finance documentation, running deal workstreams to fixed deadlines, and coordinating diligence across multiple parties and jurisdictions
• Track record of owning complex matters end-to-end with competing stakeholders and immovable dates
• Experience acting for or within a multinational business, including work spanning more than one jurisdiction
• Confident instructing or working alongside specialist advisers, and consolidating their input into a single clear recommendation
• Analytical rigor in assessing risk and exposure, with the judgment to present options and a recommendation rather than escalate open questions
• Strong written work product — able to produce material that goes to senior leadership with light editing
• Comfortable with ambiguity and shifting priorities across three distinct workstreams
• Sound judgment about what to escalate and when

Additional Information

What We’re Offering

• Flexible paid time off, including sick and holiday
• Medical, dental, & vision insurance
• RRSP with company contribution
• Flexible spending accounts
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Tuition assistance
• Community involvement and volunteering events

Additional Information

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.