Legal Counsel (Payments)

Konexo Legal Resourcing; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility and control

High quality work

Hybrid or remote options

Global backing

Learning and development

Consultant community

Job summary

Konexo Legal Resourcing is seeking interim lawyers with experience in payments, merchant services and financial services regulation to support in-house teams across various sectors.

You will advise on complex commercial contracts, negotiate bespoke customer and supplier agreements, and help drive regulatory changes and business transformation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Experience advising on payments, merchant services or related financial services products.
• Strong commercial contracts expertise; drafting bespoke customer and supplier agreements.
• Proven ability to support product development, regulatory change and business transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of legal, regulatory and governance risk in banking/financial services.
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
• Experience managing external legal counsel and panel law firms.
• Collaborative, solutions-focused mindset with willingness to share knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Advise in-house teams on payments, merchant services and financial services products.
• Support product development and regulatory change initiatives.
• Manage relationships with external counsel and panel firms.
• Assist with governance and risk management across banking/financial services.

Skills

Payments experience

Merchant services

Financial services products

Commercial contracts

Drafting agreements

Regulatory change

Governance risk

Stakeholder management

External counsel management

Travel readiness

Job description

About Konexo and Eversheds Sutherland

Konexo, developed by Eversheds Sutherland, delivers consulting and alternative legal and compliance solutions to support in-house teams globally. Legal resourcing is a well-established offering, providing access to a diverse bench of highly skilled consultants. Whether our clients need experienced lawyers to advise on complex legal, regulatory or market developments, or more junior teams to support high-volume work, Konexo offers the flexibility to scale resource quickly and effectively.

Our consultants value the breadth of projects available through Konexo across different sectors and geographies. Whether you are looking for flexible hourly work or a longer-term placement, we tailor opportunities to support your career goals and work-life balance. Through bespoke training workshops and networking events, our consultant community stays connected, supported and ahead of market developments.

Legal Counsel - Payments

Konexo Legal Resourcing is receiving an increased demand for interim lawyers to support our in-house clients which include some of the largest FTSE100 companies. We are keen to speak to qualified lawyers with experience in payments, merchant services, banking products and financial services regulation.

What you should have:

• Experience advising on payments, merchant services or related financial services products.


• Strong commercial contracts expertise, including negotiating and drafting bespoke customer and supplier agreements.


• Proven ability to support product development, regulatory change and business transformation initiatives.


• Strong understanding of legal, regulatory and governance risk within a banking or financial services environment.


• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.


• Experience managing external legal counsel and panel law firms.


• A collaborative, solutions-focused mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.


• Willing to travel at least two days a week to one of these locations: Bristol, Cardiff, Chester, Edinburgh, Halifax & Leeds.

The benefits of joining Konexo Legal Resourcing:

• Flexibility and control – choose how and when you work, with opportunities that fit around your lifestyle and career goals


• High quality work – support leading in-house teams, including FTSE100 organisations


• Variety of opportunities – full-time, part-time and ad-hoc contracts, with many roles offering hybrid or remote working


• Global backing – benefit from the support of a leading global legal practice


• Partner and SME support – access expert guidance throughout your placements


• Learning and development – access to CPD training, webinars and firm knowledge systems


• Know-how resources – including Practical Law and other leading tools


• Consultant community – invitations to networking events, webinars and firmwide initiatives

We are one of the first law practices to enter the flexible legal resourcing market, we have a wealth of experience in placing legal professionals both with Eversheds Sutherland teams and with international clients across a variety of sectors.

For more information please contact Rachel Fadipe our Talent Engagement Lead.