Legal Counsel - Americas at Zepz | Torre
Legal Counsel - Americas
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Zepz

Legal Counsel - Americas

Zepz
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Full-time

Legal agreement: To be defined

Base compensation
USD155k - 169k/year

+ Health insurance

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Hybrid (US)
Hybrid (UK)
Posted almost 3 years ago

Responsibilities

Zepz is the group powering two leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. Our brands helped cross-border communities send over $15bn from 50 countries to recipients in 130 countries in 2022. We operate over 5,000 money transfer corridors worldwide and employ over 1,000 people globally. Zepz is a remote-first employer, with team members located across six continents. Our vision is to create a world that celebrates migrants’ impact on prosperity, at home and abroad. Our purpose is to unlock the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology. We are looking for an ambitious and pro-active lawyer to become a key member of our team, with a focus on US regulatory and commercial matters. The role will report to the Director of Legal, who is based in the UK. This is a great role for someone with significant experience advising on US state money transmitter regulations (as well as general regulatory, consumer and commercial matters), who is commercially minded with an ability to find solutions to complex problems and is comfortable acting as the initial primary point of contact for US legal matters. This role will include working autonomously as well as part of a collegiate and supportive international and local cross-functional team. As a member of Zepz’s Legal team you will aim high, embrace challenge and always do what’s right; acting with integrity and building trust as you contribute to the company’s strategic direction and long term decision making. Responsibilities: - Manage day to day legal matters arising from US, Canadian and LatAm regulatory licensing and consent processes. - Advise on regulatory strategy, including horizon-scanning of legal and regulatory developments, conducting impact assessments, communicating changes and overseeing regulatory change implementation projects (as needed). - Advise on and negotiate a wide range of commercial arrangements relating to the Americas business (such as customer terms and conditions, network arrangements, commercial partnerships and service provider contracts), including signing off on marketing content, with support from the wider team when needed - Advise and collaborate with stakeholders from many areas of the business (e.g. Network and Growth, Finance Compliance, Data Protection, Customer Services and Operations teams) on all aspects of our money transfer arrangements. - Advise the People Team in relation to employment law issues. - From time to time, and depending on your experience, advise on complex matters and special projects e.g. product launches, litigation, regulatory and licensing matters, ESG or other strategic projects. - Help develop appropriate legal templates and processes. Actively work to align the legal objectives and business objectives collaboratively. - Supervise and develop more junior members of the Legal team and assist with the know-how, professional development and training needs of the Legal team.
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