The role
Join our Head of Legal to help scale our legal function, navigate complex challenges, and shape the future of our value-driven organisation. We’re looking for a passionate legal professional who thrives on variety, collaboration, and making a real impact. If you’re forward-thinking, detail-oriented, and ready to tackle exciting challenges, this could be the perfect role for you.
Your mission
We’re ramping up our legal function and need your help to drive an ambitious roadmap of legal and compliance initiatives. This is your chance to roll up your sleeves, lead meaningful projects, and create policies, processes, and training that will turbocharge our business.
Your main mission? To supercharge the legal function by lightening the load on our Head of Legal and demystifying day-to-day legal quandaries for our favourite customers – the business.
As a member of a very small legal team, it goes without saying that you will be a key player in our quest for excellence.
What you'll be working on
The life of an in-house lawyer is varied and each day is a veritable roulette of tasks; one day you might be negotiating terms with a client and the next you could be reviewing a new AI tool for legal issues. To give you a bit more of an understanding of the kinds of tasks that may come your way, here is a non-exhaustive selection:
- Undertaking legal reviews for all new supplier contracts and being the ultimate gatekeeper of our contracts approval policy. Maintaining our existing supplier contract database in our contract management system to ensure we don’t miss a renewal!
- Helping our sales team with tricky client queries on our terms and conditions and attending calls to negotiate with clients directly.
- Conducting reviews of AI tools to make sure it's compliant with our AI Tool policy.
- Horizon scanning for any upcoming legislative changes and providing updates to the business in a fun but informative way.
- Responding to various queries in our #ask-legal slack channel and providing relevant advice.
- Continuing the refinement and improvement of our data protection framework.
- Revamping our internal playbook for our sales teams, facilitating contract training sessions and improving the client due diligence process.
- Helping our clients get to know how we do legal/compliance by creating an information hub so that they can self-serve.
There will also be a number of projects to sink your teeth into which, if we pull off, will deliver significant efficiencies and hopefully be the start of our legal and compliance nirvana. Here’s a sneak peek of the subject matter of those projects:
What you'll bring to the team
- We believe the right attitude and approach are just as important as technical skills. Our priority is to find someone who not only possesses the technical competencies required for the role but, more importantly, brings a proactive and dedicated approach to what they do and embodies a positive work ethic.
- Qualified solicitor (England and Wales) with 4+ years PQE in-house.
- Strong experience drafting, negotiating, and reviewing contracts.
- Knowledge of data protection regulations and international privacy laws.
- Excellent advisory skills with the ability to simplify complex topics.
What will set you apart
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with diverse stakeholders.
- A proactive, self-motivated work ethic and the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Tech-savvy, with experience using legal databases, IT tools, and a keen interest in legal tech or automation.
- Sound judgment and discretion in high-stakes situations.
- Commercial awareness, balancing legal risks with business needs.
- Experience in tech or familiarity with software licensing, data privacy, or intellectual property.
- A global mindset with an understanding of international legal frameworks.
- Commitment to continuous learning and staying ahead of legal trends.
Salary
£75,000 - £90,000 base per annum dependent on skill and experience
A couple of important details
We require permission to work in the UK without sponsorship. We work hybrid and ask that new FundAppers work at our shiny London office 3 days per week during the first 6 months to make the most of getting to know the business and other FundAppers.
About FundApps
FundApps is a company powered by experts, with a client community of 1000s and a culture underpinned by ethics. Oh - and we make the best regulatory software so our clients can “get a good night’s sleep now they have FundApps’❃[real client quote]
Many lawyers, ex-regulators, info sec and other experts work for the B Corp that is Fundapps. We are all about future-proofing our compliance monitoring and reporting software so we can always monitor the £27trn (and growing) of AuM for the industry’s most active and happy global compliance community [we get top notch NPS + CSAT scores year after year].
Good people, good business, good ethics. We are FundApps.
Life at FundApps
🕐 Work/life balance with flexible hybrid working
💚 Wellbeing benefits such as private health insurance, a flexible stipend and mental health coaching
💰 Matched pension contribution up to 10%
💰 Peer micro-bonuses through Bonusly
🎓 £1,000 learning budget each year and unlimited professional development leave
💡 Peer-led ‘Brown-bag lunch’ learning sessions and an annual Learning Festival
🚢 25 days holiday leave + an extra day next year if you use it all + an extra day after 3 & 5 years
🧳 5 Years @ FundApps - additional 4 weeks paid holiday leave during your 5th year as a FundApper
👶 26 weeks leave for all new parents regardless of gender, location or family structure
❤️ Volunteering leave
🎁 Birthday off
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We are proud of the diversity of all FundAppers - it makes us strong. We provide flexibility around religious observances and embrace a variety of cultural celebrations! If you’re looking for a workplace where you can just be yourself, you’re in the right place.
Your privacy
Any information you submit through our job application process will be used for the purposes of assessing your fit for a role at FundApps. We may also retrieve and store information from your public social media profiles for the same purpose. By applying for this position, you consent to your data being processed in accordance with the FundApps privacy policy.
What We Do
FundApps provides automated compliance monitoring services to financial institutions, including some of the world’s largest asset managers, hedge funds and investment banks. FundApps is used to monitor over $14 trillion in client assets every day.
FundApps tackles the three biggest issues many compliance teams face when determining their responsibility to disclose: keeping track of international regulation, interpreting it correctly and accurately aggregating exposure across portfolios.
Our services: Shareholding Disclosure (major shareholding / beneficial ownership, short selling, takeover panels), Position Limits (exchange-based limits, with data sourcing and netting & aggregation) and Sensitive Industries (pre-approval and post-notification limit monitoring, and hard-stop and issuer-specific limits).
We deliver a managed service to our clients, pairing innovative technology with legal knowledge from our dedicated team of compliance experts. Our compliance experts stay up-to-date with over 400 rules in 100+ jurisdictions, providing rules and legal content that let our clients make disclosures faster and more accurately than ever before.
Yearly upgrades, server costs and maintenance fees for traditional software are all made redundant with our single yearly subscription fee and seamless, daily updates mean clients are always using the latest and greatest version of our service.
We've received multiple awards for our innovation, including being listed in the FinTech50 (50 most ground-breaking FinTech start-ups in Europe) two years in a row. We’re also a member of TechCity UK’s FutureFifty, an industry group containing 50 of the UK’s most disruptive and promising technology startups.
FundApps is always looking for talented people, so if you'd be interested in working for a bleeding-edge RegTech company then have a look at our open positions at:
http://www.fundapps.co/about-us/join-our-team
