Fintech Legal Counsel - Contracts & Compliance

Black Pen Recruitment; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Pen Recruitment is seeking a Legal Counsel for a fintech client based in Cape Town. The role focuses on drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, and providing regulatory advisory support across SaaS, partnerships and vendor agreements.

The successful candidate will contribute to risk management within the legal, risk, regulatory and compliance team, ensuring policies and procedures remain compliant across multiple markets.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years post articles experience, in a top-tier SA law firm or proven in-house fintech/payments experience
• Strong commercial contracting across SaaS, partnerships and vendor agreements
• Working knowledge of key SA legislation including National Payment Systems Act/Bill, COFI Bill, SARB directives & exemptions, PASA frameworks, FICA, NCA, Banks Act, CPA, POPIA exposure advantageous
• Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and admission as a legal practitioner
• Team player with pragmatic risk judgment and clear trade-offs
• Ability to balance risk with business objectives and communicate crisply

Responsibilities

• Reviewing, negotiating, and drafting a range of commercial contracts, such as service agreements, partnership agreements, SaaS agreements and other business agreements.
• Working closely with the Revenue teams at various stages of the contracting process.
• Prepare contract summaries, stakeholder briefing documents, and risk reports.
• Advise on legal issues regarding contracts.
• Assist with contract renewals and termination.
• Communicating and negotiating with external parties (partners, external counsel, and external clients).
• Researching and advising on the relevant regulation & legal frameworks required for our client’s business models and products.
• Assisting with the development, implementation and maintenance of contracts, policies, guidance documents and risk-based compliance frameworks.

Skills

Post-articles experience

Commercial contracting

Regulatory knowledge

SaaS & partnerships

Stakeholder management

Education

LLB

Admitted as practitioner/attorney

Job description

Black Pen Recruitment is seeking a Legal Counsel for a fintech client based in Cape Town. The role focuses on drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, and providing regulatory advisory support across SaaS, partnerships and vendor agreements.

The successful candidate will contribute to risk management within the legal, risk, regulatory and compliance team, ensuring policies and procedures remain compliant across multiple markets.