Role Purpose
To lead the global team of compliance professionals and legal experts at Baanx/CL, ensuring the company's continued growth, innovation, and compliance across all relevant regulatory jurisdictions. Baanx/CL provides crypto-enabled card and lending services to retail customers in partnership with various large corporate partners. The role will oversee the onboarding KYC/KYB processes and the continuous monitoring of all these relationships, ensuring legal and ethical integrity.
Duties and Responsibilities
Compliance Duties:
- Enforce policies and implement programs to ensure the company's legal and ethical integrity.
- Ensure all teams adhere to national and international laws and regulations.
- Develop and execute long-term and short-term plans to prevent illegal activities.
- Conduct interviews and surveys to ensure compliance among staff, employees, and consultants.
- Investigate compliance issues and discover their root causes.
- Perform research to stay informed about environmental standards and regulatory changes.
- Educate employees and partners on compliance improvements through documentation and brochures.
- Improve auditing processes to quickly resolve or prevent compliance issues.
- Host meetings to address employee concerns regarding ethical and compliance matters.
- Motivate employees to exceed compliance standards for operational efficiency.
- Lead and help design programs that improve compliance.
Legal Duties:
- Draft, review, and negotiate various types of commercial agreements.
- Conduct legal research and analysis to support business decisions.
- Identify and mitigate legal risks in business operations.
- Provide legal advice on disputes, litigation, and commercial transactions.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to ensure compliance with laws and regulations.
- Represent the company in negotiations with clients, suppliers, and other parties.
- Stay updated on changes in laws and regulations relevant to commercial activities.
- Provide legal advice and guidance on defending against individuals or entities attempting to harm the company or its CEO.
Skills and Qualifications
- Strong knowledge of commercial law principles and practices.
- Leadership skills in advising the C-Suite on legal matters.
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable in handling various legal issues, questions, documents, and problems.
- Willingness to work flexible hours and the ability to manage work from home.
- Ability to learn new laws and regulations rapidly, or to seek external counsel when necessary.
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills.
- Attention to detail and ability to analyze complex legal issues.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Proficiency in legal research and drafting legal documents.
- Ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Confidence to manage high-profile deals and partnerships within the sector.
Additional Requirements
You may be a lawyer qualified in the UK, US, Russia, Europe, Asia, or elsewhere.
You do not need to be an SCA registered lawyer, but it is a plus.
The role can be filled by individuals with varying levels of PQE (2 years to 20 years).
This combined role is designed to ensure that Baanx/CL not only meets but exceeds regulatory and legal standards, fostering an environment of innovation and compliance in the rapidly evolving fintech and crypto space.