Senior Legal Counsel

3 weeks ago

United Kingdom Allegis Global Solutions Full time €600
  • United Kingdom
  • Full-time Contractor
  • 10-month period, starting July 2024
  • Remote role
  • Payment: up to 600 GBP per day (PAYE - Inside IR35)

Company Description

Our client is a world leader in digital payments, facilitating more than 215 billion payments transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses and economies to thrive.

When partnering with our client, you are also in a way part of a culture of purpose and belonging – where the work you do matters. We believe that economies that include everyone everywhere, uplift everyone everywhere. Your work will have a direct impact on billions of people around the world – helping unlock financial access to enable the future of money movement.

Our client's Cross-Border Solutions offers deep money movement capabilities to organisations across the globe. Powered by Currencycloud technology, the Cross-Border Solutions enhances, streamlines and simplifies integrating the cross-border financial tools of tomorrow.

Clients can embed cross-border finance into the heart of their business and create sophisticated and user-friendly app-based experiences, connecting consumers and businesses around the world.

Since 2012, the technology behind Cross-Border Solutions has been used to process more than $250bn to over 180 countries, partnering with banks, businesses and fintechs all over the world.

Job Description

This role sits within a fun, supportive and hard-working Lega team, managing a wide variety of commercial legal and regulatory matters. The team supports the Cross Border Solutions, a client product that provides cross-border payment services to banks, fintechs and businesses. As part of the team, you will ensure that our client operates within the law at all times and offer counsel on legal issues focusing on UK matters.

What we expect of you, day to day.

  • Provide expert legal advice.
  • Draft and negotiate agreements with our partner banks, suppliers and clients.
  • Provide legal advice and support on other commercial matters relating to Cross Border Solutions.
  • Work with other departments across the globe to ensure agreements and advice accurately reflect business needs, risk appetite and policies.
  • Responsible for managing day-to-day legal queries.
  • Work closely with, direct and manage outside counsel

Essential Skills :

  • UK Qualified lawyer with previous experience in a commercial legal environment. We will consider candidates who have qualified in other jurisdictions.
  • Demonstrable experience at a recognised law firm or in-house environment.
  • Strong academics and training, including legal drafting and negotiating, and relationship management.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills along with a demonstrated ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Ability to work in a team environment as well as on own initiative.
  • Ability to prioritise and manage a varied and busy workload.
  • Positive attitude, high level of integrity and intellectual curiosity.

Desirable skills:

  • Previous experience experience as in-house counsel in a financial institution
  • Knowledge of the fintech and payments industry (and applicable regulation).
  • Previous experience of cross-border and multi-jurisdictional contracts.

Think you have what it takes?

If you are interested in a career that will challenge and inspire you – we’d love to hear from you

Diversity & Inclusion

Universal acceptance for everyone, everywhere, is not only our brand promise, it’s the foundation of our company culture. We foster a feeling of connectedness in the workplace, support diversity of thought, culture and background, fight for important initiatives like Equal Pay and actively work to eliminate unconscious biases that hold us all back.

By leveraging the diverse backgrounds and perspectives of our worldwide teams, our client is a better place to work and a better business partner to our clients.

Qualifications

Qualified lawyer with previous experience in a commercial legal environment

Additional Information

Our client is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. our client will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.

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