Regulatory Counsel, Americas

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $142k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Airwallex

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

💳 Fintech

💸 Finance

Fintech • Finance • Payments

Airwallex is a fintech company that provides leading technology solutions to manage global payments, treasury, and financial operations for businesses. It offers a comprehensive suite of financial services including business accounts, spend management tools, payment solutions, and embedded finance components to build custom financial products. Airwallex's platform supports multi-currency transactions, interbank FX rates, and global transfers, aiming to simplify financial operations and unlock growth opportunities for over 150,000 businesses worldwide. The company is committed to providing safe, reliable, and compliant financial services with a strong technological infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Support regulatory legal matters relating to Airwallex’s business across the Americas, including advice on existing licenses and registrations and potential future applications • Research and summarize developments in payments and financial services regulation, identifying potential impacts on business operations and strategic objectives • Partner with Product Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk and Financial Crime Compliance teams on regulatory questions involving money transmission, stored value, FX, remittance, card issuing and related financial-services products • Support Product, Strategy, Management and Commercial teams on new market entry, license expansion and regulatory mapping for new products and features • Analyze how funds move through different payment structures and help identify applicable licensing and regulatory requirements • Provide clear, practical legal guidance and risk assessments to cross-functional stakeholders • Support management of external legal counsel and consultants, including preparing instructions, reviewing advice and tracking deliverables and costs • Assist with regulatory filings, submissions and responses in relevant Americas jurisdictions • Monitor regulatory developments and translate changes into practical guidance, procedures and implementation requirements • Leverage AI and other tooling to improve the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of the Regulatory Legal team • Contribute to government-relations and policy work, including research and preparation for outreach to legislators and regulatory agencies

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified lawyer with 5 years of relevant post-qualification experience • Regulatory, financial-services or fintech experience gained in-house, in private practice or at a financial institution • Exposure to payments, money transmission, e-money, FX, remittances, card issuing, digital financial services or another closely related regulatory area • Working understanding of the US financial-services regulatory environment • Ability to research complex legal and regulatory questions and translate findings into clear, practical advice • Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain legal topics to non-lawyers • Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills, including the judgment to escalate issues appropriately • Proactive, organized and ownership-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment • Comfortable working through ambiguity, learning quickly and operating as part of a global team • Experience supporting state money-transmitter licensing applications, renewals, examinations, regulatory filings or related compliance work • Experience advising on consumer or commercial financial-services products, including familiarity with Reg E, UDAAP, TILA or similar requirements • Experience supporting new-market expansion or regulatory analysis for new products and features • Experience working with US federal or state regulators, directly or through outside counsel • Experience in a mix of private practice and in-house environments • Familiarity with Canadian payments or money-services-business regulation, including RPAA, FINTRAC or provincial licensing • Experience using or developing RegTech, LegalTech or AI tools to improve legal workflows • Legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer • Must not require sponsorship for employment visa status or work authorization

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Bonus • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 401(k) plan • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • Basic life insurance • Well-being benefits • 20 paid days of vacation • 12 paid days of company holidays • Statutory minimum paid annual leave and public holidays