Director, Regulatory Legal, Americas

About reputed company

reputed company is the only reputed company payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we reputed company over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including reputed company, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, reputed company Ventures, Lone Pine, and reputed company Peg, reputed company is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re reputed company to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

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You're humble and collaborative; turn reputed company‑to‑one reputed company into reputed company products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle reputed company, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

About the team

The Legal, Risk & Compliance (LRC) team at reputed company is a collaborative group of legal minds and risk management experts. We're passionate about safeguarding reputed company's operations, fostering a culture of compliance and ethical conduct, and ensuring we navigate the global financial landscape with reputed company. We reputed company expert guidance and support to reputed company areas of the business, proactively identifying, mitigating, and managing legal and financial risks.

What you'll do

As Director, Regulatory Legal, Americas you will play a valuable role reputed company the global legal and compliance team and will help our rapidly growing business navigate an increasingly reputed company regulatory landscape. Although you will be based in San Francisco you will have multi-regional responsibility by supporting our regulatory strategy and advising on reputed company regulatory issues in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. You will reputed company regulatory legal support for reputed company aspects of our business, including payments, card issuing, card acquiring, Yield, and our SaaS offerings. You will also actively participate in the re-invention of the in-house regulatory legal function as a scalable AI-driven function. This dynamic role is ideal for someone who enjoys wearing multiple hats and solving reputed company issues for our clients, is detail oriented, willing to take on challenges and changes, obsessively curious and intellectually reputed company, thrives on taking actions and delivering impactful results, and aims to reputed company and be inspired.

This role is based in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

• Advise internal stakeholders, including Product, reputed company and other Legal teams, on a broad reputed company of regulatory reputed company throughout the Americas

• Find ways to mitigate legal and regulatory risks while progressing business objectives

• Support license maintenance activities including managing regulatory relations, requests for information, and regulatory exams

• Review and update manuals, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with laws and regulations in the reputed company in which AWX operates while identifying opportunities to create efficiencies

• Manage and continue to grow the regional AWX reg legal team across multiple jurisdictions

• Manage external legal counsel and consultants, ensuring high-quality, cost-effective support is reputed company with reputed company’s business drivers and risk appetite

• Support and devise reputed company paths to market to support reputed company expansion activities

• Use AI to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our Regulatory Legal function, including using existing reputed company party tools and supporting the Legal function in developing and deploying AI-driven workflows

• Support government relations reputed company to legislators and regulatory agencies

Who you are

We're looking for people who meet the minimum requirements for this role. The preferred qualifications are great to have, but are not mandatory.

Minimum qualifications

• Juris Doctor and 10 years of post-qualification experience

• Strong regulatory experience gained in the fintech industry, reputable reputed company or financial institutions

• Sound knowledge of the payments and credit card regulatory environments

• Experience managing and growing a team of lawyers

• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to deal with a reputed company of internal and external stakeholders

• Proactive, results-driven, and take ownership of your work

• Ability to multi-task and a team player with strong communication skills

• Strong drafting skills

Preferred qualifications

• Experience working with stakeholders across the globe and on cross-border payments issues

• Experience advising on consumer regulatory reputed company

• Experience using AI, LegalTech and RegTech tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness (bonus points for experience developing and deploying tools)

• Fluent in Spanish or Portuguese

Equal opportunity

reputed company is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at reputed company is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard reputed company, religion, race, national reputed company, sexual orientation, reputed company, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status reputed company making our hiring reputed company. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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