Legal & Compliance Counsel (Fintech/regtech)

**The POSITION **|**About you**: We are looking for a hands-on Legal & Compliance Counsel who will oversee and handle the company’s legal matters such as agreement drafting and sample clauses/document management for both client and partner/supplier contracts and also actively contribute to product definition and validation for our KYC/AML, payments and compliance products. Regulatory watch, advisory to the management and teams, and a contribution to the company’s risk/compliance framework (policies, prodedures, guidelines) and to regulator relations will also be part of your responsibilities. You should have a solid (min. 5 years) experience in or with the financial industry and a fair knowledge of both technical services agreements drafting/negotiations and EU (ideally also Luxembourg) financial industry regulation topics (compliance, AML, outsourcing, data protection and payments). A good understanding of processes, business models and setups for digital products and services in the financial industry (SaaS, PaaS, outsourcing, cloud) would be quite helpful. You should have a law degree.

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With us you will_**
- ** Oversee and handle legal matters of the company**:you will be the go-to person for legal topics and issues, reporting to the CFO/Head of Administration. You’ll have to manage, improve and maintain the company’s agreements with partners/suppliers and clients. You’ll draft and handle various categories of agreements, product and service T&Cs, partnership agreements and MoUs, SLAs, DPAs and other legal documents.
- You will **assist our business teams in negotiations with clients**. You will **monitor the legal and regulatory evolution **in relevant industries (financial services and telecommunications).
- You will also be involved in our **product definition and validation processes**: given the nature of products we develop, regulatory compliance is a key component, both for us and for our clients that use these products and components to remain/become compliant with financial industry regulation.
- You’ll also **help our compliance department **with defining, drafting, validating and implementing procedures and in dealing with auditors, the regulator and other authorities.

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What we expect from you _**:

- You should have a **Law degree **(Bachelor or LL.M.) or equivalent experience
- At least 5 years relevant experience in (or as/with a service provider to) **the financial industry, dealing with (technical) services agreements and regulatory compliance **(KYC, PSD2, outsourcing, data protection)
- A fair knowledge of technical services agreements, terms and conditions, service level agreements, DPAs and other relevant legal document drafting and negotiation
- Both an audit/risk management experience and partnership/procurement management/negotiation skills would be useful
- A very good **understanding, **a deep** passion **and a genuine** curiosity** for digital, technology-driven and (ideally) financial industry products, business models and ecosystems

**_In return you will get _**:

- An **exciting and interesting role** in Luxembourg’s vibrant Fintech scene with the freedom to be creative and to be responsible for the success of the projects from the start
- The opportunity to become a part of one of the **prime FinTech teams** in Luxembourg, with highly-skilled industry experts, led by entrepreneurs that have been shaping successful **digital finance products** and building ecosystems for more than **20** years.
- An **attractive salary package** that matches with your role and responsibilities.
- ** Flexible working hours **with **work from home **opportunity.
- The opportunity to be part of a **multicultural and startup-minded team.**:

- A position where you will play an active role in a variety of steps and contexts of digital product building for the financial industry, from the concept to delivery and operations, where you can **truly make a difference.**:

- A nice place to work: spacious and modern offices located in the **Leudelange** business district, close to Luxembourg-City with easy access by **bus or car.**
- People are at the very heart of our corporate _culture, thus we believe in handling their recruitment ourselves. We do not deal with recruitment or staffing agencies, so please refrain from enquiring if you are one.