Legal Counsel Assistant Manager (French Speaking)
TerraPay
Nơi làm việc
Dakar
Hình thức tuyển dụng
Toàn thời gian
Chi tiết công việc
Primary Responsibilities
• Support in all finance, banking, M&A, and investment legal work for the TerraPay group.
• Be responsible for reviewing, drafting, and negotiating of loan facilities, M&A, and investment transactions. The role will offer and require flexibility in dealing with a variety of other types of transactions.
• Counsel business teams on a range of issues including payments and financial regulatory frameworks and market expansion.
• Actively collaborate with a wide variety of teams at TerraPay, including products, partnerships, compliance, and marketing, on a range of issues related to regulatory compliance, product development and commercialization.
• Implementing the legal processes required to affect the corporate procedures.
• Work with all department heads to implement a cohesive legal/commercial strategy.
• Help build scalable and effective processes for legal review and launch of products in new markets.
• Manage outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions to ensure timely and knowledgeable support of critical matters.
• Stay up to date with the support of TerraPay’ s legal subject matter experts on international laws and regulations dealing with financial services, and marketing.
• Participate as a proactive business partner to senior managers and build a trusted advisor relationship.
• Collecting information and evidence for decision making of management
Secondary Responsibilities
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills – experience to effectively collaborate with various groups and interact with senior stakeholders over email and the telephone.
• Strong interpersonal and analytical skills
• Ability to think independently, challenge status quo, form opinions and make informed decisions.
• Ability to anticipate ahead of time and escalate issues as appropriate.
• Pragmatic and analytical problem-solving skills - candidate needs to consistently apply sound judgment.
• Must be able to maintain an elevated level of organization under pressure.
• Successfully meet established deadline requirements – display efficient time management skill.
Reporting to: Head of Legal
Experience
• Minimum of 4-6 years of relevant experience in either a law firm and/or in-house legal team, preferably working on the debt cum capital market and M&A deals.
• Experience in regulatory matters in the fintech space is a plus.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point)
Educational Qualifications: Bachelor/ Master of Law
Location: West Africa
Work environment
• Will be provided with the laptop.
• Work from Office
