Head of Legal

APEXX Global; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech company is seeking an interim Head of Legal/General Counsel to join their Executive Management Team. The role involves providing strategic legal advice, managing risks, and ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions. This position offers a dynamic work environment with significant responsibilities and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

APEXX pension scheme

Private Medical Insurance with AXA

Life Insurance & Critical Illness Cover

Enhanced parental leave policies

25 days holiday plus additional for birthday

Flexi working hours

Work from abroad scheme

Qualifications

• 10+ years PQE experience ideally in Startups, FinTech or Payments.
• Experience advising senior leadership/boards on legal matters.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice to CEO, Board, and senior management.
• Identify key legal risks and deliver solutions.
• Lead the legal team and ensure high performance standards.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Qualified Lawyer

Job description

HEADLINE:

Title:Head of Legal/General Counsel
Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
Contract Type:Interim Maternity Cover (9-12 FTC) - Starting end of June 2025/beginning of July 2025.
Hours of Work:42.5 hours per week (Tuesday, Wednesday &Thursday on-site in our London Office)

OVERVIEW:

APEXX is pioneering payment orchestration, transforming the global payments landscape with cutting-edge technology and innovation. As a leader in FinTech, we're committed to excellence, driving forward-thinking solutions that empower businesses worldwide.

We’re hiring an interim General Counsel/Head of Legal to join our Executive Management Team on a fixed-term contract.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• 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.

ABOUT YOU:

• 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 objectives.

OTHER BENEFITS:

Apart from the opportunity to work for a tech scale-up, having great responsibility and varied tasks every day, other benefits include:

• APEXX pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance with AXA
• Life Insurance & Critical Illness Cover
• Enhanced parental leave policies
• 25 days holiday, plus an additional days holiday for your birthday, and Bank Holidays
• Flexi working hours, and Work from abroad scheme for 2 weeks per month (max of 90 days per year)

ABOUT APEXX

APEXX is a dynamic Fintech scale-up founded in 2016 with the goal of creating cutting-edge payment technology. Our vision is to be the payment industry's most merchant-centric provider. Through our platform a merchant can connect via a simple API connection to the world's payment ecosystem, increasing conversion at lower cost and satisfying their entire payments needs. We excel at bringing transparency, efficiency, and competition to the payments market.

The team is incredibly committed and enthusiastic about what we are building - top of the class payments solutions and a valuable business. This is infectious and creates a wonderful office atmosphere. We have a supportive, relaxed yet high-performing, and high trust culture.

To learn more about APEXX and experience the dynamics of being part of our team, feel free to check out the provided media channels below:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apexxglobal/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apexx.global/?hl=en

Careers Site: https://careers.apexx.global/

Main Website: https://apexx.global/

Apexx is an equal opportunities employer committed to encouraging equality, diversity, and inclusion among our employees and eliminating discrimination.

We do not accept speculative CVs or candidate profiles from Recruitment Agencies.