Legal Counsel, China
Legal Counsel, China
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About Payoneer
Founded in 2005, Payoneer is the global financial platform that removes friction from doing business across borders, with a mission to connect the world's underserved businesses to a rising global economy. We're a community with over 2,500 colleagues all over the world, working to serve customers, and partners in over 190 countries and territories.
By taking the complexity out of the financial workflows-including everything from global payments and compliance to multi-currency and workforce management, to providing working capital and business intelligence-we give businesses the tools they need to work efficiently worldwide and grow with confidence.
Legal Counsel, China
Role summary - The Legal Counsel will be responsible for providing advice to Payoneer's stakeholders in China regarding various legal matters, with a particular focus on corporate, privacy, employment, procurement and PRC regulatory matters.
Location: Shanghai, China
On-site
Full-time
What you'll do
- Providing legal support on corporate governance matters for Payoneer's entities in China.
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of corporate and commercial documents and agreements, including purchasing agreements, consulting agreements, partnership agreements, policies, and engagements with financial institutions.
- Providing regulatory legal support on PRC matters related to payments, FX as well as data protection and privacy.
- Providing guidance on employment law matters.
- Partnering with global legal and cross-functional teams to align on group policies, standards, and contract templates.
- Partnering with business, product and R&D to support the regulatory assessment of new products, services and GTM initiatives in China.
- Liaising and working with outside counsel in the region.
- Staying up to date with applicable PRC laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact Payoneer, monitoring key PRC regulatory developments and sharing such learnings with relevant stakeholders.
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders on legal matters, and collaborating with business, operations, finance, treasury, tech, compliance, internal audit and other teams within Payoneer to enable effective execution.
Who you are
- 4-7 years of post-qualification legal experience.
- Bar qualification, in good standing.
- Excellent English professional language proficiency, spoken and written.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with all levels of the organization and external stakeholders.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively within a team environment.
- Collaborative team player experienced at working with cross-functional teams across multiple jurisdictions and with flexibility to align with colleagues in different time zones.
- Privacy expertise, including PIPL and experience handling cross-border data transfer projects.
- Experience working directly with regulators and regulatory authorities in China
- Mixed background from both a reputable law firm and in-house legal team. Financial services, payments industry, and money transmitter experience is preferred.
- Multinational company experience and comfort operating in a matrixed environment.
The Payoneer Ways of Working
Act as our customer's partner on the inside
Learning what they need and creating what will help them go further.
Do it. Own it.
Being fearlessly accountable in everything we do.
Continuously improve
Always striving for a higher standard than our last.
Build each other up
Helping each other grow, as professionals and people.
If this sounds like a business, a community, and a mission you want to be part of, apply today.
We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace. Payoneer is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment no matter your race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you require reasonable accommodation at any stage of the hiring process, please speak to the recruiter managing the role for any adjustments. Decisions about requests for reasonable accommodation are made on a case-by-case basis.
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