Legal Counsel, Apexx Global
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
Global Payments-as-a-Service platform
Open for applications
Global Payments-as-a-Service platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Farringdon, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
Apexx's mission is to be the payment industry's most merchant-centric provider.
Role
Who you are
- You’ve done this before: You’ll be a qualified lawyer with some post qualification experience (2-3+ years PQE) ideally working within Startups, FinTech/Payments or from a Reputable Law Firm
- You have sound judgement: The ability to provide sound legal advice and exercise good business judgement and to promptly identify, analyse and mitigate risks and issues within the business while maximising commercial opportunities
- You think creatively: Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to confidently work with stakeholders across the business to achieve objectives
- You communicate effectively: Communication is key to the role including being able to advise stakeholders across all parts of the business on challenging legal issues in layman’s terms
- You have passion and drive: The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a high level of competing tasks and tight deadlines and to be adaptable, coping with change quickly
- You’re in the detail: Thoroughness and accuracy are pivotal to your role including in drafting, advising on, and negotiating commercial agreements and researching legal issues
- You lead from the front: This is a hands-on role, and you will be expected to handle significant and complex legal matters and provide direction across the business, including to senior level stakeholders
- You know your domain: Expertise and experience in financial services particularly regulation and licensing processes for the payments industry, with the ability to keep up to date with and share relevant legal and market developments
What the job involves
- Our General Counsel is looking for a talented individual to join the Legal & Compliance team to provide front-line guidance and support to all areas of the business
- The breadth of work on offer in this position and the level of commercial involvement of the legal team offers a unique in-house opportunity
- This is a generalist position, however, a background in Payments, Financial Services or FinTech is ideal
- This is a hands-on, commercially focused role supporting the General Counsel with several key elements including:
- Reviewing, drafting and negotiating a range of complex commercial agreements
- Delivering legal and strategic advice to different areas of the business on a variety of matters ranging from financial regulation and the payments ecosystem, contracts, negotiations, documentation, client issues, employment, compliance, IP, IT, marketing and data protection
- Supporting the commercial teams and wider business in discussions with customers, partners and suppliers
- Identifying legal and regulatory risks related to the introduction of new products and expansion into new markets
- Helping to identify, prepare and deliver training to the business on relevant legal and commercial issues
- Delivering continuous improvement in operating practices and processes, identifying inefficiencies and improvement
- Reporting to: General Counsel
Salary benchmarks
Our take
APEXX Global acts as a Payments-as-a-Service platform combining all the world's acquirers, gateways, shopping carts, and alternative payment methods into a single integration. The company also consults its enterprise level customers to consolidate their global payment service provider relationships, and display all their reporting and transactional data in a single interface.
APEXX Global has become a staple in European markets, with a great number of integrated partners, and multiple enterprise clients including ASOS, eShopWorld, and Swoon. It operates across more than 70 countries, and boasts saving its users an average 15% on processing costs.
Following the company’s success and popularity in European markets, APEXX Global has begun expanding into the US. A long list of partnerships have contributed to increasing APEXX's ecosystem, and have allowed it to reach more merchants across different verticals and in key international markets. Atop this, substantial funds were raised by the company and will go towards development of its products and tech, as well as furthering its presence in North America.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2023
$25m
SERIES B
Jun 2020
$8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41.2m
Company benefits
- £600 yearly learning and development budget
- Perkbox (discounted tickets, restaurants and shopping etc)
- Work from home opportunities
- Flexible working, remote working, and the opportunity to work from abroad two weeks a month
- Peer recognition program and monthly 'Value Rewards'
- Tailored career development and learning pathways. We'll help you unlock your potential
- Quarterly team building activities and incentives. Monthly internal knowledge sharing programs
- Pension scheme with Scottish Widows. Life insurance 4x salary and 5 years' salary protection for critical illness
- Bike to work scheme. Life insurance and critical illness cover
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Peter Keenan
(CEO)Previously worked for 3 years at HSBC, holding various positions such as Head of Network and Group Head of Customer Propositions.
Rodney Bain
(President)Previously Business Development Manager at JustYoyo for 1 year, and VP of European Partnerships at EVO Payments International also for 1 year.
Toreson Lloyd
(CCO)Worked in business development at American Express, and was previously Vice President at Worldpay.
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