Head of Legal, Apexx Global
General Counsel
3 days a week in office
Global Payments-as-a-Service platform
Job no longer available
Global Payments-as-a-Service platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
3 days a week in office
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 significant post qualification experience (10+ years PQE) ideally working within Startups, FinTech or Payments
- You lead from the front: You’ll have first hand experience on advising senior leadership/boards on legal matters within a complex environment
- You communicate effectively: You'll be able to simplify complex legal issues/concepts and tailor the message to your audience
- You’re a problem solver: You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach and the ability to offer practical solutions to achieve company o
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
- We’re hiring an interim General Counsel/Head of Legal to join our Executive Management Team on a fixed-term contract
- Trusted & Strategic Advisor: You will provide advice to the CEO, Board and senior management ensuring the business is operating in a compliant and legally sound manner across its operations in the UK, Europe, India and United States
- Shape Business Strategy: As a key member of the Executive Management Team, you will work closely to shape business strategy, decision-making and provide clear direction
- Risk Management: You will take a proactive approach to identifying key legal risks across the business and deliver solutions to help mitigate them
- Corporate Governance: You will be responsible for the corporate governance frameworks across the business, ensuring compliance with legal obligations, and enhancing internal controls
- Team Performance: With responsibility for the legal team, human resources and also information security which report into the General Counsel, you are tasked with leading and maintaining high performance standards, providing mentorship, coaching and career development opportunities
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.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2023
$25m
SERIES B
Jun 2020
$8m
SERIES A
Total funding: $41.1m
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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