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About the Role
A high-impact opportunity to lead an EMEA legal team, influence strategic business decisions, and negotiate complex technology transactions with major financial institutions. This role provides strategic guidance and negotiation of high-value customer engagements and leads a talented team of legal professionals, operating at the heart of the business.
Responsibilities
- Lead, support, and develop a team of legal professionals across Europe.
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex commercial and contractual matters.
- Negotiate strategic software, SaaS, hosting, licensing, services and wider technology agreements with enterprise customers.
- Partner with Sales, Finance, Product and senior leaders to balance commercial objectives with legal risk.
- Provide pragmatic legal guidance on high-value engagements with major financial institutions.
- Build trusted relationships across the business and influence key commercial decisions.
- Drive consistency, efficiency, and best practice across legal processes.
- Participate as one of a select number of approvers in the Finastra deal approval committee.
- Ensure internal governance and approval processes are followed before commitments are made to customers.
- Monitor relevant legal and regulatory developments affecting software vendors and financial services customers, supporting contractual updates where required.
- Lead the analysis and resolution of complex customer disputes, creating pragmatic solutions aligned to business and customer outcomes.
- Help strengthen Finastra’s legal presence in London and support matters across EMEA, including the Middle East where required.
Requirements
- Commercially minded lawyers who combine strong legal expertise with the confidence to operate as business leaders.
- A law degree or equivalent legal qualification.
- Fluency in English, with the ability to communicate complex legal topics clearly in written and spoken form.
- Experience leading, managing, or developing legal professionals.
- Demonstrable experience negotiating complex enterprise software, SaaS, hosting, licensing or wider technology agreements.
- Strong software vendor-side experience, ideally within enterprise software, fintech, financial services technology or a comparable B2B technology environment.
- A strong commercial mindset and a pragmatic, solution-focused approach to legal risk.
- The confidence to make decisions, manage competing priorities, and operate autonomously in a fast-moving environment.
- Sound judgement, with the ability to identify when matters should be escalated while otherwise making accurate, risk-based decisions independently.
- Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, communication, and negotiation skills.
- The ability to lead complex negotiations with clarity, credibility, and a clear understanding of both customer and internal stakeholder priorities.
- Awareness and interest in developments within the IT, software and financial services industries.
Skills
- Legal expertise
- Business leadership
- English fluency
- Complex legal topic communication
- Team leadership
- Contract negotiation
- Commercial acumen
- Risk assessment
- Decision making
- Priority management
- Autonomy
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing
- Communication
- Negotiation
- IT industry awareness
- Software industry awareness
- Financial services industry awareness
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Law degree or equivalent legal qualification
Benefits
- Unlimited vacation, subject to local regulations and business priorities.
- Hybrid working arrangements.
- Inclusive policies such as paid time off for voting, bereavement, and sick leave.
- Confidential one‑to‑one support through our Employee Assistance Program.
- Network of Wellbeing Champions and Gather Groups.
- Monthly events and initiatives designed to help you thrive.
- Medical insurance.
- Life insurance.
- Disability insurance.
- Retirement plans.
- Lifestyle benefits.
- Paid time off for volunteering.
- Donation‑matching opportunities.
- Involvement in inclusion communities.
- Online learning and accredited courses through our Skills & Career Navigator tool.
- Global recognition program, Finastra Celebrates.
- Regular employee surveys that help shape our culture and ways of working.
About the Company
- Finastra is a global leader in financial services software, dedicated to expanding access to financial services and shaping what’s next for the industry.
- Our technology powers mission‑critical solutions across Lending, Payments and Universal Banking, supporting over 7,000 customers, including 80% of the world’s top 50 banks, in more than 110 countries.
- We are helping financial institutions unlock innovation and deliver the future of finance.
- Our technology supports financial institutions around the world as they transform how financial services are delivered.
Equal Opportunity
- At Finastra, each individual is unique—bringing their own ideas, perspectives, cultural backgrounds, and experiences. We learn from one another, value what makes us different, and create an environment where everyone feels included, supported, and able to be their authentic selves.