General Counsel

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Eftsure

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

Fintech • SaaS • B2B

Eftsure is a company that builds a trust and payment-verification platform for finance and accounting teams, focused on securing business payments and preventing fraud through verification, customer due diligence (CDD), and analytics. Their website and job listings indicate they offer cloud-based software and services for businesses (vendor/payee validation, compliance support, and secure payment workflows), operating globally with a distributed, product- and engineering-driven team.

📋 Description

• Act as a trusted legal and strategic advisor to the CEO, Board and Executive Leadership Team • Lead Eftsure's Legal, Risk and Compliance functions across the United States, APAC and Europe • Provide practical commercial advice across corporate and commercial law, technology contracts, partnerships, privacy and data protection, employment law, intellectual property and other business matters • Review, draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including customer, software licensing, vendor, employment and confidentiality agreements • Own the company's legal and regulatory risk approach, including frameworks, policies and controls • Keep the Executive Leadership Team and Board informed about emerging legislation and regulatory developments • Lead and support M&A and other corporate transactions, including due diligence, deal structuring and post-transaction integration • Support Board and corporate governance activities, including Board materials, resolutions and corporate secretarial requirements • Oversee data privacy, cybersecurity and broader legal and regulatory compliance • Manage litigation, disputes and claims and oversee external counsel relationships • Build scalable legal infrastructure, including contract templates, negotiation playbooks, workflows and processes

🎯 Requirements

• A Juris Doctor (JD), or regional equivalent, from an accredited law school • Active membership in good standing with at least one US state bar • 15+ years' post-qualification legal experience, including significant in-house experience, ideally within SaaS, fintech or technology • Previous experience as a General Counsel or senior legal leader • Experience leading both senior and junior legal professionals • Experience within a scaling, venture-backed or PE-backed global technology business • Strong experience across commercial contracting, corporate law, privacy, data protection and cybersecurity • Experience advising a Board and senior executives on complex legal, governance and risk matters • Experience supporting M&A and corporate transactions • Ability to operate effectively across multiple jurisdictions, particularly the United States, APAC and Europe • Exposure to ISO 27001, ISO 27701 and SOC 2 frameworks is highly regarded • Fluency in another language, particularly French, is advantageous but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Direct access to the CEO and Board • Opportunity to lead legal and risk strategy across multiple international markets • Opportunity to build frameworks, capability and infrastructure supporting company growth

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