Senior Legal Counsel for Payments and Financial Services

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Checkout Group Full time
About This Role

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join our Regulatory and Product Legal team in London. As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will play a critical role in advising on payments and financial services regulations, assisting with interactions with global regulators, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive business growth.

Key Responsibilities:

  1. Regulatory Compliance: Advise on payments regulatory matters, including compliance with payments laws in Europe and the Middle East, and other payments laws and related regulations across our different geographies.

  2. Collaboration: Partner with our commercial, product, risk, treasury, and compliance teams to understand their needs and provide real-time legal advice to help achieve business objectives.

  3. Product Development: Provide legal support for the development, launch, management, and expansion of innovative payment products and services.

  4. Regulatory Implications: Advise on the legal and regulatory implications of product features, ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations, including PSD2, AML, and other financial regulations.

  5. Regulatory Updates: Advise key business functions on new regulatory developments impacting the payments industry and their potential impact on our operations, products, and contractual commitments.

  6. Regulatory Relationships: Support relationships with regulators on license-related matters, focusing on Europe and the Middle East.

  7. Policies and Procedures: Provide legal input into the development and implementation of internal policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

  8. International Expansion: Help the business continue to expand internationally, researching and evaluating new territories and applying for new licenses or expanding existing licenses.

Requirements
  • UK or EU-qualified lawyer in good standing with 8+ years of relevant post-qualification experience, preferably in-house or in private practice, with a focus on financial services, payment systems, or technology sectors.
  • Direct experience or a strong theoretical understanding of legal principles applicable to payments, including the payments ecosystem, regulatory and licensing strategy, and execution.
  • Strong preference for previous experience supporting licensed payment entities in the Middle East, particularly in the UAE.
  • Previous experience at or advising a global fintech, a bank, the payments organization of a large marketplace/platform company, or achieving similar strategic outcomes for a payments organization at scale.
  • Willingness to be flexible with the scope and variety of projects undertaken in this role.
  • Comfort with ambiguity, constant change, and a fast-paced culture.
  • A practical, solutions-oriented focus to solving legal challenges.
  • Proactive and capable of working with minimal direction and independently driving projects to completion.
  • Excellent judgment and project leadership skills, able to handle and deliver on numerous high-priority projects concurrently.
  • Someone who does not settle for the status quo, but is always thinking about innovative ways of doing things.

About Checkout Group We are the strategic payments partner for some of the best-known fast-moving brands globally, and our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love.

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