About this role
About us
GoCardless, a Mollie company, is a global leader in bank payments. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect, manage and send bank payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking. With US$130bn+ processed annually across 30+ countries, we handle recurring and one-off payments without the chasing, stress, or expensive fees. Our end-to-end payment platform also features AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud, alongside connections to over 350 platforms businesses use everyday.
We are headquartered in the UK, with teams and operations spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information, please visit www.gocardless.com and follow us on LinkedIn @GoCardless.
Mollie is the leading payments and financial services partner for business, rooted in Europe, with global reach.
The role
This role is a fixed-term contract for 12 months, as maternity cover.
• As Legal Counsel (2-3 years of PQE), you will focus on a number of legal areas and advise teams across the business.
• You will take a consultative approach and work closely with the business - never working alone, or able to concentrate on purely legal issues. As a member of a busy legal team you will also be expected to contribute to team-wide initiatives.
• The key responsibilities of this role include:
• Review and negotiate customer, partnership and supplier contracts by providing pragmatic and commercial support
• Work on projects for example when we roll out new templates
• Build out and maintain self-help tools, playbooks and guides for the legal team and for the wider business
• Focus on constant process improvement related to high volume work - for example by iterating our contracting automation and management workflows
• Be prepared to deal with any legal issue, at any time.
We’re approaching ‘Legal Risk’ in Financial Services in a new way.
• We are ready to serve everyone, if we wanted to - we ensure Legal Risk does not constrain the business but empowers it to achieve its goals;
• We create the best possible customer experience - we want our customers (both internal and external) to look forward to going through our processes; and
• We aim to automate wherever possible - we don’t like inefficiencies nor do we believe that real risk mitigation is achieved by throwing people at the problem.
The Legal Function is at the forefront of GoCardless’ expansion. We must ensure that GoCardless adopts, implements and maintains forward-thinking and appropriate processes and controls, often coming across new challenges or issues that require innovative solutions.
Desired skills
We’re looking for a lawyer with private practice training and/or in-house experience in a fast-paced environment. You will be driven, able to work independently and able to apply your existing knowledge and approach across a very wide range of legal (and quasi-legal) area