Global Payments Inc.
Corporate Counsel
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Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. We’re looking for a Corporate Counsel III to join the Enterprise Legal Team and help shape the future of global commerce.
What You’ll Own
The Corporate Counsel III is responsible for the provision of high-quality legal advice, policy, and direction to the EMEA Enterprise business with a focus on commercial contract and regulatory work. Critical to this will be the ability to work seamlessly across time zones with Worldpay’s global commercial, legal, and compliance teams, with the majority of time dedicated to merchant risk analysis, contract drafting and negotiations, and providing legal advice.
The success of this role rests upon the ability to rapidly build personal credibility and ensure effective stakeholder management across the business group.
- Provide high-quality, business-focused legal support directly to a growing and developing global business through a strong understanding of both legal requirements and commercial implications.
- Commercial contracts drafting and negotiation, liaising with customers, suppliers, and senior management in respect of negotiations, transaction structuring, and contributing to debates and implementing solutions outside of the legal remit.
- Reviewing and advising on the legal status of prospective merchants, to the extent the prospective merchant is in a regulated industry.
- Ensuring continual improvements to the capabilities of the in-house legal function, including in the field of legal technologies.
- Driving a consistency of approach across Worldpay in respect of appetite, policy standards, and governance.
- Legal education for the business through bespoke training.
- Managing and engaging with external counsel (primarily re regulatory matters).
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What You'll Bring
- Proven ability to understand and provide incisive, reliable, and commercial legal advice and solutions on complex business issues as well as excellent drafting and negotiations skills and professionalism.
- Proven ability to build and maintain business relationships and to perform stakeholder management.
- Interest in payments services regulation and ability to apply new or adapting laws to complex commercial structures and products.
- Proven ability to understand and apply various laws and regulations across the globe in order to perform a merchant risk analysis.
- Interest in payments and financial services industry.
- Broad-ranging corporate and commercial experience.
- Demonstrates a solid understanding of core legal concepts, particularly in contract law, with strong drafting skills.
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About The Team
Legal, Risk, Compliance & Audit
Our Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams ensure we're doing business the right way. They help us balance a healthy risk appetite, so we're empowered to expand our horizons.
The Enterprise Legal Team consists of nine lawyers, growing to ten with this role. By its nature, the team supports the business with the onboarding of new merchants, across various verticals, including High-Risk verticals, and to grow the existing merchant portfolio, while always ensuring that the company is adequately protected from a legal perspective.
What makes a Globalpayer?
Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner, and win as one team. We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact. We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.
Does this sound like you? Then you sound like a Globalpayer. Apply now to take your career global.
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