Corporate Counsel III

Global Payments Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Payments Inc. seeks a Corporate Counsel III to join the Enterprise Legal Team in London. You will provide high-quality legal advice on commercial contracts and regulatory matters, working across time zones with global teams to shape the future of global commerce.

You'll draft and negotiate complex contracts, advise on merchant risk, and help improve in-house capabilities with a strong focus on policy standards and governance. The role offers exposure to high-profile global transactions.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to provide incisive, reliable and commercial legal advice on complex business issues.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills with professionalism.
• Experience supporting multinational business across regulatory frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality legal support to a global business in commercial contracts and regulatory matters.
• Draft, negotiate and structure complex commercial contracts with customers and suppliers.
• Advise on merchant risk and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
• Collaborate with global legal, compliance and commercial teams across time zones.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Merchant risk analysis

Cross time zones collaboration

Legal advisory

Job description

Ready to take your career global?
Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Corporate Counsel III to join the Enterprise Legal Team and help shape the future of global commerce.

Ready to take your career global?
Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Corporate Counsel III to join the Enterprise Legal Team and help shape the future of global commerce.
What You’ll Own
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.

• 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'll 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.

Curious – You ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day.
Accountable – You never standing still, never settle. You work at pace to achieve your goals.
Open - You work across borders, working with your team to achieve your collective goals.
About The Team
Legal, Risk, Compliance & Audit
Our Legal, Risk, Compliance and Audit teams ensure we're doing business the right way. They help us balance a healthy risk appetite, so we're empowered to expand our horizons.
The Enterprise Legal Team consists of nine lawyers, growing to ten with this role. By its nature, the team supports the business with the onboarding of new merchants, across various verticals, including High-Risk verticals, and to grow the existing merchant portfolio, while always ensuring that the company is adequately protected from a legal perspective.
What makes a Globalpayer?
Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.
Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer.