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About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to support our payments business, focusing on digital assets and emerging payment technologies. This role involves navigating a complex legal and regulatory landscape, advising various teams, and ensuring responsible innovation while protecting customers.
Responsibilities
- Provide legal advice and commercial insights to develop and grow Monzo Bank in the UK and internationally.
- Advise on legal matters related to digital assets and emerging financial technologies.
- Advise on the legal and regulatory requirements for Monzo.
- Develop efficient ways of working to enable Monzo to scale quickly and operate safely and legally.
- Provide training and knowledge sharing on relevant laws and regulations.
- Act as the sole lawyer advising product managers, identifying legal issues, evaluating risks, and finding solutions.
- Collaborate with legal and product leadership to provide legal advice and commercial insights.
- Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders across Product, Risk & Compliance, Supplier Operations, Financial Crime, Fraud, and Operations teams.
- Advise on the evolving legal and regulatory framework for digital assets and emerging financial technologies.
- Work with colleagues to identify and apply relevant local legal and regulatory requirements.
- Improve the management of team activities, including identifying technology solutions to streamline workflows and optimize processes.
- Manage relationships with external suppliers and law firms to optimize spend and ensure quality legal support.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience.
- Recent experience with digital assets, emerging financial technologies, and the evolving regulatory regime.
- Demonstrated experience advising on laws and regulations relevant to financial services, including the UK regulatory regime for digital assets and emerging payment technologies.
- Skilled at assessing risk and recommending solutions that balance commercial and risk considerations.
- Ability to think ahead, anticipate challenges, understand commercial objectives, set clear objectives, and find effective solutions.
- Proactive and take initiative to broaden knowledge.
- Passionate about the intersection of banking and technology and the transformation in consumer finance.
- Excited to work in a fast-paced environment.
Skills
- Legal advice
- Commercial insights
- Digital assets
- Emerging financial technologies
- Regulatory compliance
- Risk assessment
- Problem-solving
- Stakeholder management
- Collaboration
- Training and knowledge sharing
- Process optimization
- Cost management
Location
- London
- Cardiff
- UK Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Flexible working hours
Experience Level
- Senior
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience
Salary/Compensations
- circa £110,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance
Benefits
- Incentive Awards tied to your performance
- Relocation assistance to the UK
- Flexible working hours
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year for books, training courses and conferences
About the Company
- We are on a mission to make money work for everyone, moving away from traditional banking.
- Our product offering has grown significantly over the last 10 years in the UK, including personal and business bank accounts, joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account, credit cards, savings, investments, and pensions.
- We are known for our hot coral cards, get-paid-early feature, financial education on social media, and award-winning customer service.
- We aim to solve problems and change lives through our products.
Equal Opportunity
- All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.