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About the Role
WEX is seeking a commercially minded Senior Legal Counsel – Regulatory, EMEA to provide expert legal and regulatory guidance across its Corporate Payments and Mobility businesses in EMEA. This role will shape business decisions, support innovation, and ensure compliance within a fast-paced, international fintech environment, working closely with senior leaders and various internal teams.
Responsibilities
- Provide regulatory and commercial legal support for WEX’s regulated entities operating in the EMEA region.
- Monitor regulatory changes and provide strategic regulatory legal guidance on current and prospective regulations.
- Offer strategic regulatory guidance for WEX’s business strategies, initiatives, and imperatives in the EMEA region, including the Mobility and Corporate Payments sectors.
- Engage with regulators, industry bodies, lobbyists, and external consultants.
- Collaborate 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.
- Ensure operations are compliant with key regulator focus areas such as safeguarding of customer funds, outsourcing, governance, risk management, AML/CTF, and financial and operational resilience.
- 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.
- Work closely with and support the Compliance, Financial Operations, Commercial, and Product teams.
- Assist with special projects.
Requirements
- Qualified to practice Law in England & Wales.
- Post-qualification experience in payments and financial services law and regulation, ideally with some in an in-house environment.
- Located in the UK.
- Strong technical ability and knowledge.
- Ideally experience in providing legal services for regulated payments firms, and in particular, experience in providing regulatory legal guidance and support.
- Clear and articulate communicator.
- Excellence in flexible problem-solving, analysis, and issue resolution.
- Ability to work closely with a variety of business stakeholders, networking internally and building confidence.
- Experience working with regulators in EMEA would be highly attractive.
Skills
- Regulatory legal guidance
- Commercial legal support
- Regulatory horizon monitoring
- Stakeholder engagement
- Risk management
- AML/CTF
- Financial and operational resilience
- Product development
- Problem-solving
- Analysis
- Issue resolution
Location
- London
- Manchester
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Qualified to practice Law in England & Wales
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.