Legal & Compliance Associate, Francophone Markets

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🌐 Cameroon, Senegal – Remote

🇨🇲 Cameroon – Remote 🇸🇳 Senegal – Remote

💵 $2k - $4k / month

⏰ Full Time

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🟡 Mid-level

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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HoneyCoin

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

💳 Fintech

₿ Crypto

🤝 B2B

💰 $4.9M Seed Round - HoneyCoin on 2025-08

Fintech • Crypto • B2B

HoneyCoin is a fintech platform that provides infrastructure for international and African-focused payments, wallets, virtual accounts, OTC trading, and stablecoin on/off-ramps. The company offers multi-currency fiat and crypto wallets, virtual cards, bulk payouts, developer APIs and SDKs, fraud monitoring, and same-day settlements—targeting finance and product teams that need to run cross-border payments, payroll, lending, and treasury operations. HoneyCoin supports stablecoins (USDC/USDT) across many African markets (18–21 countries), provides licensed local rails, and positions itself as a regulated, developer-first B2B payments and treasury solution; it also recently closed a $4. 9M funding round.

📋 Description

• Review, redline and negotiate NDAs, partner and vendor agreements, banking and payment-provider contracts, and service agreements in French and English. • Draft from templates and build a bilingual playbook of standard positions, fallback clauses and red lines. • Translate legal and regulatory documents between French and English. • Advise whether documents should be signed, signed with changes, or not signed, and explain why. • Prepare and review licence applications, regulator correspondence and responses to information requests in Francophone markets. • Track regulatory change in French-speaking markets and assess implications for products and licences. • Review and maintain AML/CFT policies, KYC procedures and compliance documents for local fit. • Manage company secretarial work for Francophone entities, including incorporation documents, filings, board resolutions and statutory registers. • Manage external counsel in each market, including scope, output and cost control. • Support country managers, partnerships and operations with practical legal input. • Maintain a live tracker of owned documents and filings, including status, blockers and next dates.

🎯 Requirements

• A law degree; admission to the bar or an equivalent professional qualification is welcome but not required. • Roughly 3–6 years reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, in a law firm, in-house or in a compliance function. • Excellent French and English, written and spoken. • Ability to redline a contract, write to a regulator and run a negotiation call in either language. • Sound commercial judgement. • Clear, short writing; ability to summarise a 40-page agreement in five lines a non-lawyer can act on. • Working knowledge of at least one Francophone African legal environment. • Evidence of high agency, self-drive, ownership, initiative, problem-solving, fast learning, and reliability. • Experience in fintech, payments, mobile money, banking or digital assets is a plus. • Hands-on payment or e-money licensing, or direct dealings with BCEAO, BEAC, COBAC or a national regulator is a plus. • Knowledge of OHADA company and commercial law is a plus. • Experience with AML/CFT, data protection or sanctions compliance is a plus. • Experience managing external counsel across several countries is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance for you and your immediate family. • Gym membership. • Business-related expenses covered. • Other benefits in line with company policy.