Legal Counsel – Part-time

Who we are

We are building the world’s first regulated payments curation platform. By consolidating best-in-class payments infrastructure under our ecosystem, we will enable marketplaces and eCommerce brands to scale their payments operations smoothly around the world.

We are building a workplace that encourages growth, development, and fun. Working in a startup can be both rewarding and challenging, we’ll be with you throughout the highs and lows as one team. We need people who have passion, resilience, and willingness to find Solutions, not just problems and work well within our global team of almost 30 nationalities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing strategic advice on a wide range of legal and regulatory matters
• Drafting/negotiating a wide range of legal agreements, including client and vendor agreements, partnership/supply agreements and referral/reseller agreements
• Identifying and flagging key regulatory issues and legal risks
• Providing support in interpreting new regulations
• Advising on payments regulatory matters, including compliance with payments laws in the UK and Europe.
• Keeping company agreement templates in line with the changing laws, regulations and business needs
• Advising on data privacy related issues
• Partnering with our commercial, product, risk, treasury, and compliance teams, acting as a real-time legal advisor to understand their needs and help find creative solutions to achieve business objectives
• Providing legal support for the development, launch, management and expansion of innovative payment products and services
• Providing legal input into the development and implementation of internal policies, procedures, and controls to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

Requirements
To be successful in this role, you:

• Be a UK-qualified solicitor or barrister, with some relevant EU experience, with 5-6 years of PQE
• Have financial services, payments or other regulatory experience
• Have previous in-house experience, preferably in a start-up or scale-up
• Be able to communicate complex legal issues to non-legal, or non-financial services, audience
• Have a keen eye for detail and a proactive, can-do attitude
• Have strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at all levels, including senior executives
• Have a passion for working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where creativity is encouraged
• Have a desire to broaden your expertise and take on new challenges

Desirable:

• Experience in advising on financial regulation pertaining to operational resilience, consumer is particularly advantageous
• Genuine interest in payments, fintech and innovative financial products
• Understanding of the Interchange Fee Regulations, Cross Border Payment Regulations, DORA, Consumer Duty, Money Laundering Directives
• Understanding of  payments, fintech, banking, or securities industries Experience of working closely with financial services regulators – whether as a regulator, within a regulated firm or advising regulated firms

You may not possess every single required skill listed, and that’s perfectly fine. If you have most of them, along with grit, passion, a desire to learn quickly, and the willingness to get stuck in, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits
As part of this role, you will receive the following:

• You will enjoy 26 days of annual leave (excluding Bank holidays)
• Volunteering & Compassionate leave
• Private Healthcare
• Company Options Scheme
• Team socials and annual company off-sites
• Comprehensive, interactive & engaging Training – Leadership, Communication and Presentation Skills, Behavioural Profiling, Conflict Management, etc
• Career frameworks
• Flexibility surrounding other commitments; within your team we will work around child-care or other appointments you have. We just ask for advance notice!
• Working in a diverse and inclusive environment where we ensure that our people thrive

Navro does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms/recruiters. Navro will not pay any fees to search firms/recruiters if a candidate is submitted by a search firm/recruiter unless an agreement has been entered into with respect to specific open position(s).  Search firms/recruiters submitting resumes to  on an unsolicited basis shall be deemed to accept this condition, regardless of any other provision to the contrary.