Legal Counsel

About us

GoCardless, a Mollie company, is a global leader in bank payments. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect, manage and send bank payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking. With US$130bn+ processed annually across 30+ countries, we handle recurring and one-off payments without the chasing, stress, or expensive fees. Our end-to-end payment platform also features AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud, alongside connections to over 350 platforms businesses use everyday.

We are headquartered in the UK, with teams and operations spanning North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. For more information, please visit www.gocardless.com and follow us on LinkedIn @GoCardless.

Mollie is the leading payments and financial services partner for business, rooted in Europe, with global reach.

The role

As Legal Counsel (2-3 years of PQE), you will focus on a number of legal areas and advise teams across the business.

You will take a consultative approach and work closely with the business - never working alone, or able to concentrate on purely legal issues. As a member of a busy legal team you will also be expected to contribute to team-wide initiatives.

The key responsibilities of this role include

Review and negotiate customer, partnership and supplier contracts by providing pragmatic and commercial support

Work on projects for example when we roll out new templates

Build out and maintain self-help tools, playbooks and guides for the legal team and for the wider business

Focus on constant process improvement related to high volume work - for example by iterating our contracting automation and management workflows

Be prepared to deal with any legal issue, at any time.

We’re approaching ‘Legal Risk’ in Financial Services in a new way.

We are ready to serve everyone, if we wanted to - we ensure Legal Risk does not constrain the business but empowers it to achieve its goals;

We create the best possible customer experience - we want our customers (both internal and external) to look forward to going through our processes; and

We aim to automate wherever possible - we don’t like inefficiencies nor do we believe that real risk mitigation is achieved by throwing people at the problem.

The Legal Function is at the forefront of GoCardless’ expansion. We must ensure that GoCardless adopts, implements and maintains forward-thinking and appropriate processes and controls, often coming across new challenges or issues that require innovative solutions.

Desired skills

We’re looking for a lawyer with private practice training and/or in-house experience in a fast-paced environment. You will be driven, able to work independently and able to apply your existing knowledge and approach across a very wide range of legal (and quasi-legal) areas. As a technology business, it helps if you have had experience in a similar area, or perhaps you have a keen interest in tech outside of your day to day work.

We’d love to hear from you if

You grasp new legal concepts quickly, and are not afraid to use your common sense.

You are able to appropriately challenge ways of working and not be afraid to ask why.

You are a self-starter who is proactive and you are willing to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.

You have some experience using Legal AI tools

Your communication skills are first class, and you are able to distil complex and cumbersome legalese into understandable English.

You love tech and tools, and love exploring how they can contribute to efficiency and customer experience.

You enjoy project management and thrive on operational efficiency.

You are easy to work with, do not take yourself seriously and want to work in a fun, fast-growing and challenging environment.

Bonus points if

You speak Spanish

You have knowledge of FCA requirements or payment services.

You have experience with selling and supporting SaaS solutions.

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