Legal Counsel (Wealth & Trading)

Revolut

Remote, Lithuania, Poland or Spain

About the role

We're looking for a Legal Counsel to sit within the growing Wealth & Trading team and to support our MiFID II investment firm. The breadth of work you'll encounter (and level of commercial involvement) is pretty unique for an in-house role, from launching new products to expanding into new territories.

Your focus will be on the strategic mitigation of regulatory risk to the business. You'll manage and support on a wide range of contentious regulatory matters and internal investigations, as well as providing day-to-day pragmatic legal advice to key stakeholders as a business partner. Speaking of advice... we've got one piece for you — apply now!

What you’ll be doing

Being involved in all the steps of launching new investment products and services, from conducting legal assessments of the initiative to preparing customer-facing documents and providing ongoing support thereafter;
Advising the business on complex legal and regulatory issues surrounding structuring of new (unique) products and services, marketing, and promotion of investment products;
Researching a range of complex legal and regulatory questions and providing legal analyses and recommendations to support business initiatives and decisions;
Advising on resolution of costumers complaints and disputes;
Partnering up with our Commercial Legal Counsels in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating regulatory parts of agreements and legal documents;
Drafting, planning and/or implementing compliance policies and procedures for regulatory matters for investment products;
Identifying, assessing, monitoring, managing, and reporting on operational, legal, regulatory, and compliance risk in relation to investment products.

What you'll need

Master's degree or equivalent in Law;
3+ years of excellent Wealth & Trading (investment services, financial markets and/or asset management) experience;
Experience as a private-practise lawyer at a top law firm and (preferably) some in-house experience as well;
Knowledge and experience in advising costumers on MiFID II, MiFIR, EMIR, PRIIPS, UCITS implementation and providing legal support in relation to associated policies and contractual frameworks;
Excellent business-oriented mindset to find actionable solutions to legal and regulatory challenges;
Ownership skills and ability to work independently in ambiguous situations;
Genuine interest in financial markets industry together with broad-based securities and/or asset management experience and good understanding of financial markets and complex financial instruments;
Exceptional project management and communication skills, including the ability to oversee implementation of complex projects;
Problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to analyse complex information to identify the key issue/action and drive resolution;
Be responsible and result-oriented;
Fluency in English;
Excellent academic and law firm credentials.