Legal Counsel

Future Forex Sa; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A growing fintech company based in Gauteng is seeking a Legal Counsel to navigate the legal landscape of financial services. The ideal candidate will have 2-5 years of relevant experience and a strong foundation in law, especially in compliance and regulatory frameworks. This position requires collaboration across teams to ensure adherence to legal requirements while driving business success. Join now for a chance to shape the legal division and make a tangible impact on the company's growth.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years post-articles experience at a reputable law firm or in-house.
• Admission as a legal practitioner/attorney.
• Experience with regulations such as FAIS, FICA, POPIA.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance with legal frameworks and internal regulations.
• Collaborate with teams to maintain cutting-edge service delivery.
• Provide strategic legal guidance for business strategy and restructuring.

Skills

Legal expertise in financial services

Risk identification and mitigation

Strong communication skills

Solution-driven mindset

Collaboration and teamwork

Education

Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

Job description

We are looking for a Legal Counsel with 2-5 years post-articles experience who has a knack for identifying and mitigating legal, regulatory and compliance risks in the financial services sector.

Who we are

At Future Forex, we're committed to exceeding expectations and providing South Africans with the exceptional financial services they deserve.

By offering streamlined processes, a personal touch, and unwavering transparency, we're redefining the status quo.

Why is now a good time to join us?

We rolled out our new ever-growing international money transfer service in

You’ll play a massive role in shaping our legals, owning compliance processes end to end and, over time, be perfectly positioned to build your own legal team.

We are currently in a scale‑up phase of our businesses and are witnessing excellent growth.

Going forward we aim to expand globally and leverage our agility, inventiveness and drive to improve the livelihoods of every client.

Joining now offers the rare opportunity to play an important role in this goal.

The opportunity

To grow our reach and impact, we are constantly striving to enhance our existing services, develop new investment and transactional products with additional partners, and expand beyond South Africa.

We are looking for a Legal Counsel with 2-5 years post-articles experience who is adaptable, solution‑driven, and is passionate about leveraging their legal expertise to help improve our various services.

What you’ll do:

Have a positive impact on our clients and team by ensuring our legals are watertight.

Collaborate with our Product and Operations teams to ensure new and existing services are always compliant, as we aim to sit on the cutting edge of international monetary movements.

Work closely with our Key Individual to ensure we meet regulatory requirements (e.g. FAIS, FICA, etc).

Provide legal guidance when setting up new divisions or products and assist with business strategy and company restructuring if necessary.

In time, build out our legal division to ensure the above responsibilities can be met as the business scales.

Share strategic legal guidance with senior management to enable high‑level decision making.

Consult with external lawyers where specialist input is required.

Engage with clients and third‑parties when legal representation is required.

What you’ll need

2-5 years post-articles experience at a reputable SA law firm or proven in‑house experience (ideally in a fintech).

Bachelor of Laws (LLB) and admission as a legal practitioner / attorney.

Working knowledge and experience of legislation / regulations relevant to our services (Exchange Controls Manual, FAIS, FICA, POPIA, etc).

Competent at not only identifying risks, but also putting forward solutions that align with business goals.

Excellent at simplifying complex legal matters into crisp and concise summaries and recommendations (including when information is imperfect).

A focus on prioritisation when juggling multiple tasks to ensure best deliverability.

A start‑up mindset, comfortable with having to rapidly pivot to new products.

Comfortable working remotely with high autonomy and staying self‑motivated.

Strong communication and collaboration abilities to ensure fluid working with others.

What it’s like to work here

We’re deliverable focused: Working a set number of hours is not important to us.

What matters is how quickly we can bring high‑quality deliverables to production.

If you’re focused and effective, you’ll find yourself well rewarded!

We reward excellence: We deeply appreciate anyone who relishes making a real impact and is happy to go the extra mile in doing so.

We are quick to identify and reward those who overachieve.

We don’t like micromanaging: Micromanaging is an inefficiency we’d prefer to avoid.

We want to integrate you quickly so you can manage your own time and projects.

We love collaboration, so we’re always happy to help one another and will never leave you in the dark.

We’re all about transparency: We believe transparency is key to our success and have made it the cornerstone of our services.

We focus on transparency and open discussion amongst our team to help the best answers and ideas bubble to the surface.

This has the added benefit of creating a fun and open workplace where ideas flow.

Interested but unsure if the role is the right fit for you?

Let’s talk and find out.