Corporate Counsel III

Worldpay (UK) Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Worldpay (UK) Limited is seeking a Corporate Counsel III to join the Enterprise Legal Team and support the global payments business across EMEA. You’ll provide high‑quality commercial contract advice, regulatory guidance, and strategic risk management to merchants, customers and internal stakeholders.

The role requires cross‑border collaboration, strong drafting and negotiation skills, and the ability to operate across time zones while upholding Worldpay's standards and governance.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to understand and provide incisive, reliable and commercial legal advice and solutions on complex business issues.
• Excellent drafting and negotiations skills and professionalism.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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).

Skills

Incisive legal advice

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Cross-border collaboration

Regulatory awareness

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.

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.