Fenergo has an opportunity for a commercially minded Legal Director/ Head of Legal to join the team on a 12 Month contract. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone looking for a role in a fast paced, growing Fintech company.
You’ll advise the company on a wide variety of legal issues. We like our people to have as much exposure across the business as possible and so this is a role with global reach where you will be the principle legal advisor across the business.
This role will report directly to the CFO and currently has two direct reports.
Main Responsibilities:
- Ultimate responsibility and escalation point for all aspects of commercial contracts globally.
- Provision of strategic advice for new products, new processes, new facilities etc as may be contemplated by the organisation
- Responsibility for corporate and co-sec legal matters, engaging external counsel where appropriate
- Provision of advice on disputes and mitigation of these across the organisation
- Manage and support legal team in an effective manner
- Create materials and conduct training and onboarding as required by the business
- Assistance with legal aspects of the organisation’s equity programmes
- Draft template updates and manage roll out of same to the business
- Frequent engagement with exec stakeholders on wide variety of matters needing strategic legal advice
- Key legal responsibility for group integration projects
- Key legal responsibility for business transformation projects across the business
- Manage appropriate escalations and communication with stakeholders as needed
- Manage and negotiate regulatory amendments as required
- Signing responsibilities as appropriate
- Other ad hoc responsibilities as may arise from time to time
Requirements
Key Competencies:
- Commercially astute and pragmatic
- Demonstrate initiative with a proactive approach to work.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability autonomously in a fast-paced changing environment.
- Experienced and comfortable in a legal leadership role
- Flexible, organised and able to prioritize and manage own workload, as well as anticipate the needs of the business.
- Conscientious and diligent.
- Build relationships and engage cross functionally, managing multiple stakeholders and concerns
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly assess potential for risk and opportunity.
- Proven discretion, tact and probity in handling confidential and sensitive information
Required Experience amp; Skills:
- Min 8 years PQE, in-house experience preferred
- IP/IT focused experience - commercial contract negotiation experience is key with focus on technology and B2C agreements an advantage.
- Must be a strong Legal decision maker with people management experience
- Decisive, clear communicator with ability to distill complex legal issues into easily understandable concepts
- Experience engaging with CSuite and Executive stakeholders
- Experience in improving efficiencies
- Sound understanding of IT/ software contracting law as well as issues relating to data protection and intellectual property.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with clients and colleagues on a global scale
- Competitive company benefits, such as flexible working hours, work from home policy, bike to work scheme, private healthcare, pension, sports and social committee, weekly fitness and sports classes and much more
- Buddy system for all new starters
- Collaborative working environment
- Extensive training programmes, classroom and online, through ‘Fenergo University’
- Opportunity to work on a cutting-edge Fintech Product, using the latest of tools and technologies
- Defined training and role tracking to allow you see and assess your own career development and progress
- Active sports and social club
- State of the art offices in the heart of Dublin’s Docklands with great facilities, canteen and games area