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About the job

Legal.io is working with a top fintech company to hire a payments focused regulatory counsel for a 4 month, full time, contract assignment.

What You’ll Do:

• Advise on the full range of financial services legal, regulatory, and industry requirements applicable to our payments and financial services activities.
• Work closely with our internal product, business, risk, and compliance teams, as well as with external advisors.
• Summarize and analyze impact of new applicable rules and regulations, and industry enforcement activity.
• Identify risk areas and develop systems, policies, and procedures to manage and mitigate them.
• Provide ideas and insights into how we can work within the law to create amazing product experiences for our customers.

Who You Are:

• Balance risks and business reward
• Self-starter
• Be a clear communicator, capable of dissecting complicated regulations into digestible advice

Required Qualifications:

• Must have 5+ years of experience working at a law firm or in-house, advising on financial regulatory matters.
• Must be familiar with state and federal money transmission, payments and Anti Money-Laundering laws and regulations, including the EFTA/Reg E, state money transmission laws, NACHA and credit card network rules, FinCEN regulations, KYC obligations, emerging payment systems, and other regimes.
• Must have experience handling regulatory and enforcement matters.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior relationships with relevant state and federal regulatory agencies, a plus.
• Previous experience at a fintech company preferred.

Role Details:

• Full time, 40 hours per week, 4 month contract
• Ideal start ASAP
• Benefits: healthcare, vision, dental
• Location: REMOTE (West Coast hours preferred)

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