Job Title: Global Payments Counsel, Financial Services
Job Responsibilities:
The role of Global Payments Counsel involves providing strategic commercial legal advice and ensuring compliance across the company's payments and financial services operations in the Americas, including Latin America. This position is crucial in navigating the complex regulatory landscape within the financial services sector and structuring compliant business models. Key responsibilities include:
- Advising on various issues such as financial services regulation, consumer protection, KYC, and risk assessment/compliance related to financial services businesses worldwide.
- Structuring, drafting, and negotiating a wide range of agreements with partners supporting the financial services businesses.
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders including product, engineering, compliance, marketing, business development, and risk on issues related to product development and commercialization of financial services products and services.
- Working closely with the global legal team to advise on general issues in connection with the launch of projects or programs in destination countries/regions.
- Building scalable and effective processes for legal review and the launch of new features and products.
- Staying up-to-date and serving as the subject matter expert on financial service regulations, including AML, KYC, and KYB.
- Participating as a proactive business partner for senior managers and building a trusted advisor relationship.
Education and Experience Information:
Minimum Qualifications:
- Qualified lawyer in the US, preferably NY or CA, with relevant experience in private practice and in-house settings, with exposure to Technology, FinTech, or Financial Services industries.
- Strong understanding of the financial services sector, including compliance requirements like consumer protection, anti-money laundering rules, and know-your-customer requirements.
- Strong contract negotiation skills focusing on payments, financial services, technology, and commercial agreements.
- Ability to navigate matters independently and demonstrate excellent judgment and decision-making capability with imperfect information.
- Ability to navigate complex regulatory environments and provide practical, business-oriented legal solutions.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across legal, compliance, product, and risk functions.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with other jurisdictions in the Americas region, such as Canada and Latin America.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while demonstrating flexibility, commitment to teamwork, and a willingness to change assignments to meet clients' needs.
- Anticipation of client needs and delivery with timeliness, accurately sensing the urgency and sensitivity to situations.
- Ability to manage a heavy workload volume and meet critical deadlines with little supervision.
- Proactively making recommendations for necessary process improvements.
- Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the clients' business, industry, and organization and supports the delivery of the product, services, and initiatives of the organization.
- Proactively identifying problems or issues and taking the lead in resolving them.
Salary Information:
For Pay Transparency: Compensation Description (Annually)
The base salary range for this position is $170,666 - $319,200 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on factors such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package, which may include additional discretionary bonuses/incentives and restricted stock units. Benefits may vary by employment nature and location, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, and more. Employees receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year, and 17 days of Paid Personal Time, prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure. The company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. The company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment. Duties include interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues, handling and managing confidential information, and exercising sound judgment.
