Senior Legal Counsel

**About Revolut**
- People deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, more freedom. And since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. With an arsenal of awesome products that span spending, saving, travel, transfers, investing, exchanging and more, our super app has helped over 20 million customers get more from their money. And we're not done yet.
- As we continue our lightning-fast growth, we believe that two things are essential to continuing our success: our people and our culture. So far, we have more than 3000 people, based in 20 offices around the world, working on our mission. And we're looking for more. We want brilliant people that love building great products, love redefining success, and love turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.

**About the role**
- The legal department sits at the heart of Revolut and is a core part of the business. Members of the team provide front-line guidance and support to all areas of the company, contributing to decisions that impact on Revolut’s growth every day.
- The breadth of work you will encounter (and level of commercial involvement) is pretty unique for an in-house role, from structuring credit programmes to launching into new territories. We hire both generalists (typically corporate/commercial solicitors) as well as specialists (such as compliance), alongside operations analysts, all of whom have a large degree of responsibility for Revolut’s ongoing development and growth.

We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Counsel or Head of Legal to join the Legal team in Singapore. This role will report directly to Chief Executive Officer, Singapore.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Draft, review, negotiate and advise internal stakeholders and negotiate with external counterparts on a variety of commercial agreements, including third party agreements, operations agreements, services agreements, partnerships, and marketing agreements
- Identify and consult on legal risks in connection with the development of new products
- Liaise with specialist external counsel in relation to original new products, expansion into new market verticals and areas relating to compliance, privacy, or security.
- Develop and implement processes for efficient and streamlined operations surrounding contract negotiation and processes
- Develop and maintain form agreements, contract management systems, and other databases
- Serving as lead counsel on strategic deals, resolving issues that arise in existing commercial relationships, and handling pre-litigation legal disputes and inquiries
- Drive all ongoing compliance review processes, including necessary filings, policies and procedures
- Monitor changes to regulatory requirements and proactively handle regulatory developments
- Provide time-sensitive support on a wide array of legal inquiries in connection with all aspects of your country’s operations.
- Identify and consult on legal risks in connection with the development of new products

**What you'll need**
- Excellent academic and law firm credentials
- Hold a current practicing certificate
- Strong experience as a private practice lawyer dealing with financial services at a top law firm (and preferably) in-house experience as a senior counsel or a department head
- Excellent English skills (written and oral) are a must
- Strong client-service and customer orientation and strengths in forming good working relationships
- High degree of independence, initiative and decisiveness
- Enthusiasm and drive for delivering results
- Strong analytical skills and an ability to demonstrate sound legal and business judgment, even in ambiguous situations
- Ability to work independently and also contribute successfully to cross-functional teams
- Excellent organisational skills, and an ability to manage multiple projects at once, to meet deadlines
- Common sense, great judgment, and a good sense of humour
- Strong experience in advising clients on commercial contract matters (past experience in: regulatory, IP, IT is a plus) across a broad range of areas including Financial Services, Technology and Corporates
- Thrives working in a fast-paced, high pressure, entrepreneurial environment
- Work hard but have a lot of fun doing it
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**A LITTLE ABOUT US**
- When Revolut was founded in 2015, we had a vision to build a sustainable, digital alternative to traditional big banks. Our mission now is to help our customers improve their financial health, empower them to have more control, and promote financial cohesion across the communities in which we operate. Launching into 2021 with 15 million Personal customers and over half a million Business customers only reinforced our belief in the vast need across the world for better financial services.**WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR**
- Revolut is being scaled up by people all around the world who share our vision. We’re looking for people who align with our five core v