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Flatpay is one of Europe's fastest-growing fintechs, taking on the incumbents with fairer pricing and a simpler product. As we scale in the UK, we are hiring our first Legal Counsel to be the legal go-to for the UK entity: contracts, corporate, employment law, data protection, compliance and AI. Broad scope, direct impact, and a seat close to the decisions that matter. This is Flatpay UK's first Legal Counsel hire — a sole-counsel role today, with room to grow the function as we do.
What You'll Do
- Be the legal business partner. Advise Commercial, People, Customer Support and Operations daily with clear, fast, solution-oriented answers, and assess the commercial, contractual and regulatory risk behind strategic decisions, product rollouts and employment law cases.
- Manage relationships with 3rd party expert counsel. Liaise with external subject matter experts on more complex topics and apply internal commercial and business rationale to external advice.
- Own commercial contracting. Draft and review partner and supplier agreements, terms & conditions, and build the templates and standards
- Own UK employment law risk. Advise on complex or high-risk cases, sensitive exits and consultation processes; instruct and manage external counsel on tribunal litigation; give final sign-off on settlement agreements. Day-to-day case management — probation, absence, standard grievances and disciplinaries — sits with the UK People team's ER Specialist; you're the escalation point and legal risk owner.
- Stay ahead of regulation. Employment Rights Bill, gender pay gap reporting, TUPE on acquisitions and supplier changes, and what each means operationally for a field sales business.
- Drive data protection and compliance. UK GDPR and DPA 2018 in day-to-day application, risk assessments, internal procedures and employee training.
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What We're Looking For
- Qualified and commercial. Solicitor (England and Wales) with a current practising certificate and 3 to 5 years PQE, in private practice and/or in-house, ideally in a scale-up, fintech or tech environment.
- Broad technical grounding. Commercial contracts, corporate law, UK employment law and data protection, with the judgement to turn legal analysis into a pragmatic business answer.
- Autonomous. This is a sole-counsel role. You will set your own priorities, know when to escalate, and know when to instruct external counsel rather than solve it yourself.
- Clear communicator. You give commercial teams an answer they can act on, not a memo that hedges.
- Comfortable operating internationally. You report into the Chief Legal Officer and group legal function in Copenhagen. English fluency required.
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BACKGROUND
- Training contract and qualification at a recognised UK firm, or an equivalent in-house route.
- Exposure to the payments industry, financial services regulation or an FCA-regulated environment is a strong plus, though not a prerequisite.
- Experience supporting a fast-scaling commercial or field sales organisation is welcome.
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