Corporate Counsel

Are you ready to write your next chapter? We’re looking for a Corporate Counsel III to join the Worldpay Enterprise Legal Team. Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments. With proven technology, we process the largest volume of payments in the world, driving the global economy every day. When you join Worldpay, you join a global community of experts and changemakers, working to reinvent an industry by constantly evolving how we work and making the way millions of people pay easier, every day.

The Worldpay Legal team is comprised of lawyers and paralegals worldwide who enjoy being an advisor to and partner with our businesses to help the company achieve its goals. We work collaboratively with each other and with our business colleagues to solve problems in an effective and pragmatic manner. We view our role as one of supporting our business leaders in a variety of legal matters, and we strive to assist our businesses in meeting their objectives with sound, reasonable and well-considered legal counsel.

About the role: 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.

About the team: Our Legal, Risk, Compliance and Audit teams ensure we are doing business the right way. They help us balance a healthy risk appetite, so we are 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 you’ll own:

• 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).

What you 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.
• Curious – You ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day.
• Accountable – You never stand still, never settle. You work at pace to achieve your goals.
• Open - You work across borders, working with your team to achieve your collective goals.

Explore the benefits we offer to Worldpayers in the United Kingdom:

• My Health: We provide a healthcare allowance towards the costs of your health benefits, giving you the flexibility to choose the coverage you and your family needs across our medical, dental and healthcare cash plans. Our medical plan also includes a neurodiversity assessment pathway.
• My Money: We offer access to a pension scheme with a company contribution of 9% of base salary if you contribute at least 3%. You can also own your personal finances through our Workplace ISA and GIA.
• My Lifestyle: We offer Employee Assistance Programs to support through any changes that matter to you.
• My Family: Our family inclusion network offers support for Worldpayers raising families and caring for family members.
• My Protection: We offer company-funded life and income protection insurance with the option to purchase additional insurances, including critical illness for you and your partner, life insurance for your partner, and personal travel insurance.
• My Time Off: We offer paid time off and public holidays so you can rest, recharge and spend time on what matters most.
• My Specialized Support: We offer company-funded annual Health Assessments. We also provide free access to a Virtual GP for you and your family, and full funding for female Worldpayers to access our Menopause Support Plan. We provide a monthly wellbeing allowance for you to spend on anything that supports your physical and/or mental wellbeing.