About The Role
The Corporate Counsel III is responsible for the provision of high‑quality legal advice, policy and direction to the EMEA Enterprise business with a focus on commercial contract and regulatory work. Critical to this will be the ability to work seamlessly across time zones with Worldpay’s global commercial, legal and compliance teams, with the majority of time dedicated to merchant risk analysis, contract drafting and negotiations and providing legal advice. The success of this role rests upon the ability to rapidly build personal credibility and ensure effective stakeholder management across the business group.
What You’ll Own
* Provide high quality, business focused legal support directly to a growing and developing global business through a strong understanding of both legal requirements and commercial implications.
* Commercial contracts drafting and negotiation, liaising with customers, suppliers and senior management in respect of negotiations, transaction structuring and contributing to debates and implementing solutions outside of the legal remit.
* Reviewing and advising on the legal status of prospective merchants, to the extent the prospective merchant is in a regulated industry.
* Ensuring continual improvements to the capabilities of the in‑house legal function, including in the field of legal technologies.
* Driving a consistency of approach across Worldpay in respect of appetite, policy standards and governance.
* Legal education for the business through bespoke training.
* Managing and engaging with external counsel (primarily re regulatory matters).
What You Bring
* Proven ability to understand and provide incisive, reliable and commercial legal advice and solutions on complex business issues as well as excellent drafting and negotiations skills and professionalism.
* Proven ability to build and maintain business relationships and to perform stakeholder management.
* Interest in payments services regulation and ability to apply new or adapting laws to complex commercial structures and products.
* Proven ability to understand and apply various laws and regulations across the globe in order to perform a merchant risk analysis.
* Interest in payments and financial services industry.
* Broad ranging corporate and commercial experience.
* Demonstrates a solid understanding of core legal concepts, particularly in contract law, with strong drafting skills.
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