About the role

  • Legal Counsel at Viber focusing on fintech services and legal compliance. Preparing and reviewing documents while ensuring adherence to relevant regulations in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare, review, negotiate, and draft legal documents, agreements, policies and processes together with the supporting documents.
  • Review new product functionality to ensure compliance with local laws.
  • Partner with marketing and the commercial teams to support contests and partnerships.
  • Provide contract advisory and interpretation.
  • Perform legal research on a variety of legal topics related to the company's operations.
  • Serve as the responsible person with regulators and be responsible, alongside the compliance team, to oversee performance of company’s plans in these fields, maintain policies, monitor compliance and evaluate effectiveness of risk mitigation measures.
  • Assist with all tasks required to obtain required regulatory approvals and ensure the company complies with all requirements on an ongoing basis.
  • Stay up-to-date with relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards related to company’s local operations and provide analysis of those which includes identifying gaps in company’s compliance.

Requirements

  • A licensed lawyer in Malta, EU or a common law jurisdiction.
  • 2-5 years of experience working for a regulated financial entity or fintech company or experience in advising companies in the financial or fintech sectors as a lawyer.
  • Experience of negotiating complex and high volume contracts and providing product legal advice.
  • Working knowledge of regulatory requirements in the financial sector including PSD2, AMLD, DORA, RTS, etc.
  • Fluent in English.
  • Can do attitude and ability to prioritize under tight deadlines and pressure.

Benefits

Job title

Legal Counsel

Job type

Experience level

JuniorMid level

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

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