Senior Legal Counsel - Fintech (regulatory)

Senior Legal Counsel - Fintech (regulatory)

Posted 2 weeks ago by Marks Sattin

£110,000 Per year
Undetermined
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City of London, London
p>A really exciting opportunity to join a global FinTech payments business, who promote an excellent internal culture encouraging their legal team to work proactively with business stakeholders on interesting and challenging project work. This is an excellent role for an experienced In-House Lawyer form the Banking and Financial Services markets, with an understanding of FCA regulations and an interest and/or experience of working in the FinTech/Payments market.

About you:

  • England and Wales qualified lawyer having trained at a reputable firm and with upwards of 8 years in house experience
  • An in-depth understanding of FCA regulations and the ability to confidently share knowledge on this subject with relevant stakeholders
  • Confident in providing in commercially focused regulatory advice to the business and confident in managing a small team
  • Practical and self-motivated, happy to work on high level, complex projects.

What to expect:

  • Provide advice on regulatory constraints to the E-Money and payment services division of the business
  • To communicate both proactively and reactively with European, UK & international regulators
  • Implement programmes of regulatory change
  • To be ahead of the curve with regulatory change impacting the business and to advise accordingly
  • Conduct multi-jurisdictional reviews of regulation implications onto; licensing projects, product launches and expansion strategy
  • Build and maintain a network of external counsel globally
  • Provide any other areas of general ad-hoc advice to any regulatory legal enquiries