As Junior Legal Counsel, you will play a key role in ensuring that our business operations align with legal and regulatory frameworks. You will work closely with various departments, providing legal guidance on financial regulations, payment services, and commercial agreements.
Key Responsibilities
- Supporting business departments with daily legal matters, such as reviewing, negotiating and drafting commercial contracts, provide support in handling client queries, review marketing documents, etc.
- Providing research, business-oriented advice, and other legal support to business departments.
- Assist in developing the company’s policies related to specific sectoral issues, corporate governance, or regulations.
- Clarifying legal language or specifications for business departments.
- Communicating and negotiating with external parties (external lawyers, partners, service providers, etc.), building trust-based relationships, or supporting the business with such requests.
- Drafting and updating contracts, procedures, and other legal documents.
- Managing and maintaining a comprehensive legal and contractual database.
- Staying up to date with changing laws and regulations, ensuring compliance, and timely communicating updates to relevant business departments.
Skills and Profile Required
- You have a master's degree in law (Belgian law preferred).
- Three to six years of experience in commercial and business law, either in a law firm or a corporate setting. Experience in financial services regulations is a plus.
- Fluent in both French and English, you possess strong oral and written communication skills and have a solid understanding of Dutch.
- With excellent analytical, writing, and organizational abilities, you are dynamic and creative. You can work autonomously and you are proactive.
What do we offer ?
- Perks : meal vouchers, eco-vouchers, group health insurance, pension plan, phone subscription, monthly allowance, public transport, gym pass.
- Various missions and projects in an innovative and rising scale-up in a thriving industry (fintech).
- Fast learning environment and possibility to take responsibilities.
Recruitment Steps
- Hiring manager call: Isabelle van Biesen (Head of Legal)
- HR call: Christine Herzig (HR manager Benelux)
- Executive call: Arnaud de la Porte (CFO)
Who we are:
In less than 10 years, iBanFirst has established itself as a trusted partner for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) operating across borders.
iBanFirst provides a next-generation cross-border payment experience that combines a powerful platform and the support of the best FX experts. Executives and finance teams have direct access to currency markets. They can hold, collect and send funds in over 30 currencies, as well as being able to develop custom currency risk management strategies.
With more than 350 employees across 10 countries in Europe, the company processes more than 2 billion euros worth of transactions monthly. As a regulated payment institution, iBanFirst is authorized to operate throughout the European Union.
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What We Do
Founded in 2016, iBanFirst has quickly established itself as the leading alternative for businesses that trade and carry out international payments. iBanFirst offers a next-generation cross-border payment experience that combines a powerful platform and the support of FX experts. With iBanFirst, executives and finance teams can get direct access to currency markets, receive, send and track payments and develop tailored hedging strategies.
With more than 350 employees in 10 European countries, processing a volume of transactions worth more than €1.4 billion each month, and listed by the Financial Times as one of Europe's fastest growing companies, iBanFirst became in less than 10 years a trusted partner for SMEs across borders.
iBanFirst has the financial backing of the French public investment bank (bpiFrance), European venture capital leaders (Elaia, Xavier Niel), and the American investment fund Marlin Equity Partners (more than 8 billion dollars of capital under management).
Regulated by the National Bank of Belgium as a payment institution, iBanFirst is authorized to operate throughout the European Union. Member of the SWIFT network and SEPA certified, iBanFirst holds AISP and PISP accreditations under PSD2
