Legal Counsel / Senior Legal Counsel

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At Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential.

About Moneybox

Moneybox is the award-winning app that helps you turn your money into something greater. We’ve brought saving, investing, home-buying, and retirement services all together into one simple app, so it’s easier than ever to achieve your goals and build wealth, whatever your starting point.

Job Brief

We’re searching for an exceptional lawyer with a passion for all things commercial and a hunger to learn. If you’re eager to be at the heart of the action in a fast-growing company, this is the role for you. Reporting directly to the Head of Legal (Commercial), this position offers a blend of professional variety and personal fulfilment. You’ll have the autonomy to shape and own your areas of responsibility while building strong relationships across the business.

Join us in building a legal function that delivers a best-in-class service, collaborating seamlessly with all teams. Moneybox is at an exciting stage of growth, and our Legal Team is right in the thick of it. We’ve laid a strong foundation and are now ready to scale up our support as the business continues to scale. This is your chance to make a tangible impact and contribute to our ongoing success.

What you’ll do

As a key member of the Legal Team, you will:

• Draft, negotiate and advise on agreements across a broad spectrum of commercial matters, including suppliers, banking partners, marketing and IT procurement.
• Assist with the drafting and updating of customer-facing terms and conditions and related materials.
• Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to assist with the rollout of new products, processes, and promotions.
• Play a key role in supplier management, including contract review for our material suppliers.
• Assist with the implementation of legal tech (both AI contract review and heightened CLM functionality) to scale the function. .
• Assist our Compliance Team with regulatory queries.
• Support on a broad range of other legal activities, including IP, employment, property, and litigation, as needed.
• Provide training and education to the business on legal matters.
• Stay up-to-date on relevant legal developments and proactively advise the business on potential impacts.
• Work closely with and manage external legal advisors.

Experience and Skills

• 4-8 years PQE* lawyer, with strong commercial experience, ideally from a top-tier law firm. If you have spent some time in-house at a start-up or scale-up, that’s definitely a bonus.
• Experience drafting and negotiating a wide variety of sophisticated commercial agreements.
• Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with a proven ability to juggle and prioritize a large number of competing matters.
• Pragmatic approach to advice, with the ability to understand our business and apply an appropriate commercial lens to reviews.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills, particularly with those at a senior level.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills, both written and verbal.
• Financial services / regulated industry experience (preferred).
• Experience with legal research.
• Fluency in English.

*PQE is a guide – your ability and skills are worth more to us than your years qualified.

What’s in it for you?

• Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning and super ambitious startup
• Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals
• Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact
• Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture
• Company shares
• Company pension scheme
• Hybrid working environment (2 days in our London office)
• Home office furniture allowance
• Personal Annual Learning and Development budget
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan (cashback on visits to the dentist & opticians etc)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps
• Enhanced parental pay & leave
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays with additional days added with length of service.
• Our office is in London, by the Oxo Tower