Description:
About the role:The Legal team sits at the heart of A Financial Technology Company as one of our most important areas of business. This focused bunch supports all other A Financial Technology Company teams, helping us achieve our goals each and every day.
They're special, they're strong-willed, and they work across a myriad of different areas. We know this isn't super common for an in-house role, but our team is just that good
Are you a problem solver? This one's for you!
We're looking for a Senior Legal Counsel who'll advise A Financial Technology Company on compliance and legal issues around our financial features.
You'll be an expert in consumer credit and financial regulation who excels at leadership, yet dares undertake a hands-on role when needed.
Excited to join? We can't wait to have you on board.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Advising the business on compliance and legal issues surrounding structuring of new and existing financial products, and the marketing of them
- Being an integral part of product and commercial teams; working with them to help design and deliver compliant solutions
- Helping structuring and expanding A Financial Technology Company products and managing regulatory expectations, requirements, and applications
- Assisting other functions to draft, plan, and/or implement compliance policies and procedures for banking services regulatory matters for these products
- Engaging proactively, and work alongside local regulators
- Excelling at leadership while also undertaking executional work. This is a hands-on role and you'll be expected to handle significant and complex legal matters with short turnaround times
What You'll Need:
- 5+ Years experience as a Legal Counsel
- Excellent academic and law firm credentials
- Experience in advising clients on financial regulation in the US in connection with other jurisdictions where we operate (we have home state regulators in the UK, Ireland, and Lithuania, and passports throughout the EEA)
- You should be comfortable with financial regulation generally, but also be able to demonstrate a specialty or interest in one or more particular areas where we have operations (e.g. insurance, trading, crypto, etc - we'd love you to tell you what your specialty is and why we need it).
- Bank holding company experience and foreign banking experience
- Expertise in relevant financial laws and regulations: Bank Holding Company Act, Federal Reserve Act Sections 23A and 23B, and Federal Reserve Bank Regulations E, W, and Y, FFIEC Manual
