Senior Legal Counsel - Payments Commercial & Regulatory

About the role

In a Corporate Counsel Senior role, you will manage legal business matters to protect the enterprise's position and rights relating to regulatory matters and compliance, including financial crime compliance, high risk merchant and payment models, contract development, bank, payment network and other commercial partnerships, negotiations and guidance, disputes, settlements and supporting pre-litigation matters, and business practices. As part of a legal team with 200 attorneys and paraprofessionals, your focus will be on areas key to the business and compliance and financial crime compliance function, including relating to Worldpay's acceptance and management of high risk merchants, product offerings including related to regulated services, regulatory compliance projects, the establishment of new payment models and regulatory or market changes, and relating to partnerships including commercial, network and bank partnerships, regulatory, payments law, corporate compliance, litigation support, intellectual property, financial crime and transaction support. Legal, Risk, Compliance & Audit Our Legal, Risk, Compliance and Audit teams ensure we're doing business the right way. They help us balance a healthy risk appetite, so we're empowered to expand our horizons. The High Risk, Payment Models and Partnerships team consists of two senior lawyers, growing to three with this role. By its nature, the team deals with some of the most complex legal matters facing the enterprise and has a strong focus on working with many LCRA (Legal, Compliance, Risk and Audit) and other stakeholders on a broad range of matters.