Legal Counsel (Commercial)

Moneybox; London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic fast-growing startup as a junior lawyer at Moneybox, where you will play a crucial role in drafting and negotiating legal agreements, while collaborating closely with internal stakeholders. With a focus on commercial matters, you will have the chance to shape the legal function in a thriving company with a strong commitment to DE&I.

Benefits

Company shares

Company pension scheme

Hybrid working environment

Home office furniture allowance

Annual Learning and Development budget

Private Medical Insurance

Health Cash Plan

Cycle to work scheme

Gympass subscription

Enhanced parental pay & leave

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Qualifications

• Excellent legal credentials (NQ-4 years PQE required).
• Experience in commercial agreements and in-house at a startup is a bonus.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate various commercial agreements.
• Assist with the implementation of legal tech and compliance support.
• Provide training on legal matters across the business.

Skills

Legal Research

Commercial Agreement Drafting

Negotiation

Communication

Organizational Skills

Education

NQ-4 years PQE

Job description

We're searching for an exceptional junior lawyer with a passion for all things commercial and a hunger to learn. If you're eager to be at the heart of the action in a fast-growing company, this is the role for you. Reporting directly to the Head of Legal (Commercial) and working closely with a Senior Legal Counsel, this position offers a blend of professional variety and personal fulfilment. You'll have the autonomy to shape and own your areas of responsibility while building strong relationships across the business.

Join us in building a legal function that delivers a best-in-class service, collaborating seamlessly with all teams. Moneybox is at an exciting stage of growth, and our Legal Team is right in the thick of it. We've laid a strong foundation and are now ready to scale up our support as the business continues to scale. This is your chance to make a tangible impact and contribute to our ongoing success.

What you'll do

• As a key member of the Legal Team, you will:
• Draft, negotiate and advise on agreements across a broad spectrum of commercial matters, including third party suppliers, banking partners, marketing and IT procurement.
• Assist with the drafting and updating of customer-facing terms and conditions and related materials.
• Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to assist with the rollout of new products, processes, and promotions.
• Assist with the implementation of legal tech (both AI contract review and heightened CLM functionality) to scale the function.
• Assist our Compliance Team with regulatory queries.
• Support on a broad range of other legal activities, including IP, employment, property, and litigation, as needed.
• Provide training and education to the business on legal matters.
• Stay up-to-date on relevant legal developments and proactively advise the business on potential impacts.
• Work closely with and manage external legal advisors.

Experience and Skills

• NQ-4 years PQE* lawyer, with excellent legal credentials. If you have spent some time in-house at a start-up or scale-up, that's definitely a bonus.
• Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, including supplier contracts, marketing and IT agreements.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with a proven ability to juggle and prioritise a large number of competing matters.
• Pragmatic approach to advice, with the ability to understand our business and apply an appropriate commercial lens to reviews.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, both written and verbal.
• Financial services / regulated industry experience would be a bonus.
• Experience with legal research.
• Fluency in English.

• *PQE is a guide - your ability and skills are worth more to us than your years qualified.

What's in it for you

• Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning and super ambitious startup.
• Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals.
• Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact.
• Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture.
• Company shares.
• Company pension scheme.
• Hybrid working environment.
• Home office furniture allowance.
• Personal Annual Learning and Development budget.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Health Cash Plan (cashback on visits to the dentist & opticians etc).
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps.
• Enhanced parental pay & leave.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with additional days added with length of service.

• Plus many more

• Our office is in London, by the Oxo Tower

Our Commitment to DE&I

At Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential

Working Policy:

We have a hybrid policy that includes 2 days from our London office and 3 from home. If the role states it is either hybrid or remote candidates must be based within the UK.

Visa Sponsorship:

At this time we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.

Please read before you apply!

Please note if offered a position, the offer is conditional and subject to the receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks which we will conduct such as criminal record and adverse credit history checks. As a regulated financial business, an adverse financial history could impact your suitability for the role. If you are aware of anything that could affect your suitability for the role, please let us know in advance. By sending us your application you acknowledge and agree to Moneybox using your personal data as described below.

We collect applicants’ personal data to manage our recruitment related activities. Consequently, we may use your personal data to evaluate your application, to select and shortlist applicants, to set up and conduct interviews and tests, to evaluate and assess the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment process generally.We do not share your personal data with unauthorised third parties. However, we may, if necessary, share your personal data to carefully selected third parties acting on our behalf. This may include transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided us with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America.

If you are unsuccessful in your application, we may keep your details on file so that we can tell you about other suitable vacancies which may be of interest to you when they arise in the future. If you would rather we did not keep your details on file, you can contact us at email: [e-mail]

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