Intro

Avallone, a leader in Know-Your-Customer and Due Diligence solutions, empowers treasury and legal teams to conduct KYC/DD processes rapidly, efficiently, at scale — unlocking the full potential of businesses and teams. Trusted by top private equity funds and Fortune 500 companies - as well as fast-growing start-ups, Avallone's Collector and Responder Modules seamlessly integrate precise data management with advanced technology, enabling organizations to accelerate impactful results. With its comprehensive, cloud-based platform for KYC / DD, Avallone helps businesses fulfill the vision of transparency and a future free from financial crime.

What’s the role?

The Legal Operations Specialist is a new, part-time role for a student worker and reports directly to the VP Strategy and Planning.

The primary responsibility of the Legal Operations Specialist is with our Contract Lifecycle Management: contract creation and redline negotiations/adjustments specific to Avallone’s commercial deals, and this includes a key role working closely with our data processing agreements. This role also includes some operational and administrative activities critical to the business.

Over time, the role may expand and evolve to include broader, legal department activities and initiatives.

Again, this is a part-time role - ideal for a student studying law or business - with on-site working days. Only applicants located in Copenhagen, Denmark will be considered.

If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, start-up environment where you can directly share, innovate and drive change - then this is the team for you!

What you will be doing

• Contract management and negotiation
  • Execute, manage and optimize the existing Contract Lifecycle with our Commercial team, including:

    • Creating contracts and amendments for customers

    • Redlines: First line of review, guide internal assessments, implement and negotiate

    • Ensuring swift collection of electronic signatures

    • Actively support and enable internal teams throughout the contract lifecycle. For example:

      • Communication of finalized contract details to relevant departments after signing

      • Management of relevant databases/files with contract information

• Advisory legal, compliance and Support our Data Protection Officer in review and adherence to our data processing / GDPR agreements

  • Create and manage other legal documentation including but not limited to NDAs, partner / vendor agreements, etc.

  • Continue to develop and improve legal workflows, department processes and collaboration between legal, sales, finance and other departments

  • Support various legal operations projects and initiatives

• Invoice management and operational support

  • Create and issue invoices to customers; follow up on outstanding invoices to ensure timely payment

  • Be a functional link between the commercial activities as noted in our contracts / amendments and our finance department

  • Support with updates of Sales databases with contractual / invoicing information

  • Assist with trade / supplier compliance needs and other general operational / business activities

What you bring

• Currently studying law at Copenhagen University or HA(jur) or cand.merc.(jur.) at CBS

• Experience or education with corporate contract law - specific to commercial software agreements

• Experience or education within data protection / GDPR

• Thorough understanding of legal operations and the interactions with sales and other teams

• Demonstrated strong drafting skills (contracts, policies, disclosures) and verbal / written communication skills for both legal and non-legal audiences

• An analytical, problem-solving approach to negotiations

• Urgent drive to “get things done” and help “close the deal”

• Works independently and collaboratively - knowing when to seek advice

• High standards of integrity and confidentiality

• Curiosity and eagerness to learn and grow in the role

Bonus

• Background in Saas software

• Adept at Excel / Googlesheets

• Familiarity with Salesforce