Global Legal Associate: Fintech&Compliance

Overview

The organization is seeking a Global Legal Associate, Fintech & Compliance to serve as a legal partner to Product, Engineering, and Finance teams on matters involving payments and money movement.

This role will help translate regulation into clear product requirements, support launches in new markets and for new payment features, and help run the fintech compliance program that keeps products compliant once live.

Responsibilities

Product

• Collaborate with Product and Engineering from discovery through launch for payments, payroll, and payout features.
• Evaluate how money flows should be structured, including whether a flow triggers licensing requirements (money transmission, e-money, or payment services) and how to meet or design around them.
• Convert regulatory requirements into clear, practical product requirements.
• Draft and maintain product terms, payment terms, disclosures, and in-product legal text.
• Draft, review, and help negotiate agreements with partner banks, payment providers, and FX partners.
• Perform legal reviews for launches in new markets and for new payment features.
• Make balanced risk calls and propose compliant alternatives rather than blocking work.

Fintech compliance

• Support the development and day-to-day operation of the compliance framework for payment activities, including AML/CTF, KYC/KYB, and sanctions screening.
• Assess licensing and registration needs across markets and obligations under partner bank and financial institution arrangements.
• Draft and maintain policies, controls, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting.
• Support engagement with regulators, auditors, financial institutions, and banks’ compliance teams.
• Monitor regulatory change in payments, data protection, and AI, and assess impacts on products.
• Train internal teams on compliance obligations and help ensure risks are raised early.

Requirements

• A law degree and qualification to practise in at least one jurisdiction.
• 3–5 years of legal experience in payments or fintech, either in-house or at a law firm with a strong payments practice.
• Hands-on experience advising product teams, including at least one product or market launch you supported from design to go-live.
• Solid knowledge of payments regulation (e.g., PSD2/EMD in the EU and UK, US money transmission rules) and AML/CTF requirements.
• Experience working with banks or payment providers and negotiating the related agreements.
• Ability to explain complex rules in plain language and provide clear, practical advice.
• Strong judgment on risk and comfort making decisions with incomplete information in a fast-moving environment.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in payroll, EOR, HR tech, or global workforce platforms.
• Experience with license applications or regulator engagement.
• Knowledge of data protection (GDPR) and AI regulation as they apply to financial and HR products.
• Experience building a compliance function from an early stage.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• 100% remote work.

Location

• Remote (100% remote).