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Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.

We’re looking for a Senior Legal Counsel – Payments Commercial & Regulatory to join our ever-evolving High Risk, Payment Models and Partnerships team to help us unleash the potential of every business.

Are you ready to make your mark? Then you sound like a Worldpayer.

About the role

In a Corporate Counsel Senior role, you will manage legal business matters to protect the enterprise’s position and rights relating to regulatory matters and compliance, including financial crime compliance, high risk merchant and payment models, contract development, bank, payment network and other commercial partnerships, negotiations and guidance, disputes, settlements and supporting pre-litigation matters, and business practices.

As part of a legal team with 200 attorneys and paraprofessionals, your focus will be on areas key to the business and compliance and financial crime compliance function, including relating to Worldpay’s acceptance and management of high risk merchants, product offerings including related to regulated services, regulatory compliance projects, the establishment of new payment models and regulatory or market changes, and relating to partnerships including commercial, network and bank partnerships, regulatory, payments law, corporate compliance, litigation support, intellectual property, financial crime and transaction support.

About the team

Legal, Risk, Compliance & Audit

Our Legal, Risk, Compliance and Audit teams ensure we're doing business the right way. They help us balance a healthy risk appetite, so we're empowered to expand our horizons.

The High Risk, Payment Models and Partnerships team consists of two senior lawyers, growing to three with this role.  By its nature, the team deals with some of the most complex legal matters facing the enterprise and has a strong focus on working with many LCRA (Legal, Compliance, Risk and Audit) and other stakeholders on a broad range of matters. 

What you’ll own

• Act as a legal advisor to Worldpay LCRA, commercial and product stakeholders with a focus on areas key to the business and compliance (including financial crime compliance) function, including relating to Worldpay’s acceptance and management of high risk merchants, product offerings including related to regulated services, regulatory compliance projects, the establishment of new payment models and regulatory or market changes, and relating to partnerships including commercial, network and bank partnerships, regulatory change, corporate compliance and intragroup arrangements, including supporting Tax and Accounting teams, disputes and litigation support, intellectual property, financial crime, sanctions and transaction support.
• Provide advice and guidance to the sales and products teams in addressing regulatory compliance, licensing, business and reporting matters.
• Coordinate, manage and validate advice from external counsel within a budget, including coordinating, distilling and aligning, and supporting the implementation of, multijurisdictional advice.
• Support our the Global Enterprise key priorities and Long Range Plan.
• Provide legal and regulatory guidance on the design, modification and geographical expansion of products.
• Translate legal and regulatory requirements into functional specifications and standard operational procedures and provide ongoing regulatory advice and guidance on internal policies and changing regulations.
• Prepare and negotiate contracts and other legal documentation relating to partners including bank partners and payment networks, while providing legal advice and counsel to relevant business units in areas that include data security, privacy and regulatory matters.
• Prepare and negotiate contracts while providing legal advice and counsel to business units in areas that include software licensing, data security, privacy and regulatory matters.
• Performing legal research and analysis on commercial contracts and information technology law issues.
• Advise colleagues on legal issues relating to commercial contracts, product development and compliance. 

What you bring

• Experience advising on commercial, regulatory and financial crime compliance matters.
• Experience drafting and negotiating services agreements and general commercial contracts.
• Ability to review and evaluate multi-faceted issues and counsel business colleagues on complex legal questions relating to various business matters.

• • Licensed to practice law in the UK (expected minimum 8 years PQE) and/or at least one other European country.

Added bonus if you have: Experience in fin-tech / payment services and e-money regulations, supporting high risk merchant types, advising on payment models including marketplaces, advising on product development and expansion.

Curious – You ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day.

Accountable – You never standing still, never settle. You work at pace to achieve your goals.

Open - You work across borders, working with your team to achieve your collective goals.

What makes a Worldpayer

What makes a Worldpayer? It’s simple: Think, Act, Win. We stay curious, always asking the right questions to be better every day, finding creative solutions to simplify the complex. We’re dynamic, every Worldpayer is empowered to make the right decisions for their customers. And we’re determined, always staying open – winning and failing as one.

Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Worldpayer. Apply now to write the next chapter in your career.

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