Senior Legal Counsel

Summary

Join Zepz Group's high-performing Legal Team as a mid-ranking lawyer with financial services/payments regulatory experience. Based in the UK, this role supports the global business, offering strong growth and development opportunities. You will be involved in a variety of tasks, including advising on regulatory matters, commercial contracting, leading product launches, managing customer service issues, and advising on strategic projects. The position requires excellent technical skills, experience in the payments/financial services sector, and strong communication and interpersonal skills. Zepz offers competitive benefits, including unlimited annual leave, private medical cover, retirement plans, life assurance, and parental leave, along with a remote-first work environment.

Requirements

• Excellent technical skills: demonstrated ability to draft clear, professional and legally robust correspondence, advice, contracts, policies and other documentation as required, with appropriate form and style
• Recent experience of working with businesses in the payments/financial services sector and awareness and knowledge of the external business environment relevant to Zepz
• Experience of applying regulations relevant to financial services and payment institutions and/or handling general commercial legal matters and/or experience in leading corporate or banking transactions
• Experience negotiating complex commercial contracts and ability to influence and persuade in decision-making processes both internally and externally
• A commercial mindset and ability to think creatively to achieve the commercial objectives of the business and to deliver legal advice in the appropriate commercial and regulatory context and within tight timeframes
• First class interpersonal and communication skills: able to, and enjoy, building and maintaining good relationships both internally and externally at all levels
• Comfortable working in an automation-led, fast-paced environment and juggling multiple priorities
• Ability to work independently, but also a team player: fostering knowledge sharing and being prepared to be involved in the day-to-day

Responsibilities

• Be heavily involved in a breadth of ‘business as usual’ and 0-1 project work that may include: advising on regulatory matters and issues that arise from our operation as a payment services provider business, including the regulatory constraints in which the business operates, product launches, country launches and licensing as well as liaising with regulators in various jurisdictions, including the UK, Belgium, Australia and South Africa
• Commercial contracting work including drafting; negotiating and advising on contracts related to the payments ecosystem, our products and payment institutions
• Leading on product launches across our global send and/or receive jurisdictions
• Managing customer services issues, including day-to-day complaints management and referrals to the Financial Ombudsman Service or equivalent as well as litigation; and/or advising on transactional and other strategic projects including drafting intra-group agreements and other contracts to support group restructuring and M&A so that the business can move forward at pace, while protecting our interests
• Address general or ad-hoc legal queries from business stakeholders and other team members including in respect of intellectual property and day to day corporate work
• Keep abreast of regulatory developments in the payments/e-money financial services industry and assess the impact of these developments on the business and manage stakeholders accordingly
• Work closely with the Global Risk and Compliance teams to ensure the company operates within a robust regulatory and compliance framework
• Help develop appropriate legal templates and processes and actively work to collaboratively align the legal objective and business objectives
• Assist with the know-how, professional development and training needs of the Legal team including help develop appropriate legal templates and processes and support more junior members of the team
• Liaise with multiple stakeholders, both internally and externally to Zepz, and so must be able to communicate confidently and effectively and have excellent stakeholder management skills
• Actively work to align the legal objectives and business objectives collaboratively

Benefits

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance!
• Private Medical Cover: You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being
• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future
• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected
• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible
• We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive