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About the Role

Provide expert legal and regulatory guidance across WEX's Corporate Payments and Mobility businesses in EMEA, helping shape business decisions, support innovation, and ensure compliance within a fast-paced, international fintech environment. You will work closely with senior leaders, Compliance, Product, Commercial, and Financial Operations teams, playing a key role in regulatory horizon scanning, engaging with regulators, advising on new products and market expansion, and influencing business strategy across the EMEA region.

Responsibilities

Provide regulatory and commercial legal support for WEX’s regulated entities operating in the EMEA region.
Monitor regulatory horizons and provide strategic regulatory legal guidance on applicable current and prospective regulations.
Offer strategic regulatory guidance for WEX’s business strategies, initiatives, and imperatives in the EMEA region, including for entities in the Mobility and Corporate Payments sectors.
Engage with regulators, industry bodies, lobbyists, and external consultants, including external legal counsel.
Liaise with WEX’s compliance team, senior management, board members of regulated entities, and internal business stakeholders.
Advise on requirements for and provide drafting support for risk frameworks, policies, and procedures.
Support intra-group and partner contractual arrangements to ensure compliance with key regulator focus areas.
Manage regulatory monitoring, review, and ensure WEX is prepared for regulatory changes, including responding to consultations.
Identify legal and regulatory issues associated with operating in new markets.
Manage license and other applications with regulators, including licensing or compliant cross-border service provision efforts in new markets.
Provide strategic regulatory legal guidance for product development and evolution to support business growth and innovation.
Collaborate closely with and support the Compliance, Financial Operations, Commercial, and Product teams.
Assist with special projects.

Requirements

Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB).
Post-qualification experience in payments and financial services law and regulation, ideally with some in-house experience.
Located in the UK.
Strong technical ability and knowledge.
Experience in providing legal services for regulated payments firms is ideal.
Experience in providing regulatory legal guidance and support is ideal.
Clear and articulate communication skills.
Excellence in flexible problem-solving, analysis, and issue resolution.
Ability to work closely with a variety of business stakeholders, network internally, and build confidence.
Experience working with regulators in EMEA would be highly attractive.

Skills

Regulatory legal guidance
Commercial legal support
Regulatory horizon monitoring
Regulatory engagement
Risk frameworks
Policy development
Contractual arrangements
AML/CTF
Financial and operational resilience
Regulatory consultations
Product development
Problem-solving
Analysis
Issue resolution
Stakeholder management

Location

London
Manchester

Work Type

Permanent
Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB)

Salary/Compensations

£92,000-£110,000

Benefits

Annual company bonus
Industry leading pension scheme
Private Medical
25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays
Opportunity to purchase additional holidays
Life assurance
Income protection
Gym Flex membership
Discounts & perks platform
Employee wellbeing

About the Company

WEX is an innovative payments and technology company looking to forge the way in a rapidly changing environment, with a goal to simplify the business of doing business for our customers, freeing them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love.
We are on a journey to build consistent world-class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovation across all of our strategic initiatives.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/ belief, sexual orientation, or age.