Who we are?
Silverfin is a cutting-edge cloud software solution built by accountants, for accountants.
Founded in 2013, Silverfin was created to solve the frustrations of manual, error-prone processes in analysing financial data and compliance. From day one, we’ve been a cloud-first platform with an open API architecture, leveraging structured data to transform how accountants work.
Our mission is simple: to enhance and support the accountancy profession through AI and automation, ensuring accountants remain relevant and respected in the future of finance.
In 2023, Silverfin became part of the Visma Group, joining one of Europe’s leading providers of cloud software. This partnership strengthens our ability to innovate and expand our impact within the accountancy industry.
Today, Silverfin is trusted by over 1000 firms across 16 countries. Our clients include all of the Big 4 accounting firms, as well as leading global networks like BDO, PKF, Baker Tilly, Grant Thornton, and Moore.
Headquartered in Ghent, with offices in London, Luxembourg, Mont-Saint-Guibert, and Gouda (NL), we’re a team of over 180 people - including a diverse remote engineering team working across multiple time zones - all working together to drive innovation in accounting.
Your role
As Associate Legal Counsel, you’ll help Silverfin grow fast and safely. Our legal team is small, so you won’t be confined to one narrow specialism. One week you’re negotiating a contract with an international accounting network, the next you’re helping Product launch a new AI feature, explaining to an accounting firm how we protect their clients’ data, or helping the People team roll out a new policy across our offices in four countries. And as new legislation comes along, you’ll help work out what it means for Silverfin and our product. You’ll see up close how a scale-up SaaS business works, and you’ll be the person teams turn to when they want to move forward with confidence.
You’ll work side by side with our Legal Counsel, who will be your day-to-day coach and mentor. You’ll start with a broad mix of day-to-day legal work, from commercial contracts and data privacy to corporate housekeeping and employment questions, and take ownership of your own areas as your experience grows. Along the way, you’ll help shape how our legal function scales, from smarter templates and playbooks to legal tech and AI.
Your responsibilities
Commercial & Technology Transactions
This area focuses on driving revenue and managing the commercial relationships.
Commercial Negotiations: Independently draft, review and negotiate standard customer agreements, NDAs and order forms based on our templates. Support the Legal Counsel on complex B2B SaaS agreements, strategic partnerships and enterprise customer contracts.
Legal Operations: Help maintain and improve our library of commercial templates. Keep our contract repository and approval workflows up to date, and build playbooks and FAQs that help our go-to-market teams handle routine questions themselves.
Supplier Agreements: Review and negotiate standard supplier and technology vendor agreements, with attention to data security, service levels and IP. Escalate high-risk or strategic vendor contracts to the Legal Counsel.
Technology, Data Privacy & Intellectual Property
This is about protecting the company's most valuable assets: its technology, its data, and its intellectual property.
Data Privacy & Compliance: Support the privacy programme together with the Information Security Officer. This includes handling DPAs, vendor privacy assessments and data subject requests, maintaining our records of processing, and keeping our privacy policies up to date in line with GDPR, CCPA and other applicable legislation.
IP Portfolio: Coordinate trademark filings, renewals and monitoring with external counsel, track deadlines and keep our IP register up to date. Act as first point of contact for day-to-day questions on copyright, trademarks and trade secrets.
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