Posted 2 years ago
JOB TITLE: Senior Attorney
JOB LOCATION: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
JOB DETAILS:
- 10+ years of major law firm or large corporation in-house experience, preferably working on financial services, fintech, payments, or related products
- 3+ years in contract drafting, negotiation and deal management for larger business transactions
- Experience with third-party service agreements
- Excellent organizational, time management, and follow-up skills
- Are a great deal lawyer–willing and able to roll up your sleeves and get into the details of major deals
- Have worked in, or closely with, one or more technology companies to structure complex financial services relationships
- Are a great communicator and solid project manager, able to effectively prioritize and advance a large number of deals happening simultaneously, often on tight deadlines. Solid understanding of banking operations, payment network rules and other financial services regulatory issues
- Extreme organization skills.
How you will lead:
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- Draft, review, and negotiate agreements and transaction documents, particularly with respect to bank/fintech partnership transactions, payments, innovative financial service alliances, and other third-party service agreements
- Liaise with internal stakeholders for input on privacy, data sharing, data security, regulatory and marketing considerations while developing and drafting form contracts for routine transactions – all while minimizing company and customer risk
- Maintain an understanding of regulatory impact in partnering with financial institutions and ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
- Supporting all internal business units by providing efficient and effective legal counsel
- General transactional/commercial support for other business lines with contract drafting, review and negotiation
- Undertake project work from time to time to support larger initiatives within the team or organization supporting company goals/objectives
- Additional responsibilities as may be assigned as needed
- Work with Legal, Compliance and business teams to implement regulatory changes that impact customer facing products, services, and marketing efforts
- Be tech-savvy and fintech-forward, identifying tools that could aid in the commercial legal support tasks – all to improve processes and efficiencies.
- Provide mentoring and cross-training of colleagues to undertake commercial legal work supporting banking services.
Salary
N400,000 – N500,000 / month.
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Deadline: September 30, 2022