Payments Counsel

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Overview

CellPoint Digital is on a mission to make payments a strategic advantage for businesses.

We are the global leader in payment orchestration, with innovative solutions that help clients like Virgin Atlantic take the right payment, at the right time, from customers in every local market – all in real-time to optimize their payment revenue. We simplify the complexity of 28+ card schemes (think MasterCard, Visa, American Express), 168+ alternative payment methods (think ApplePay, PayPal, Alipay), and 220+ processors (think Worldpay, Elavon, Union Pay) with a platform that combines the best of them all with intelligent routing that drives dramatic success and revenue savings for our clients.

We are a rapidly growing company driven by a talented team with diverse experiences and unique insights. Our community stretches across the globe with offices in Copenhagen, Dallas, Dubai, London, Miami, Pune, and Singapore and remote-based colleagues everywhere in between.

Our inclusive, collaborative culture sets us apart and makes CellPoint Digital a truly special place to join and apply your talent. We believe in the power of community, in bringing out the best in one another, in working cross-functionally and across borders to create something extraordinary for our clients and our partners.

We want teammates who will rally around our mission and around each other – with a steadfast commitment to consistently demonstrating heart and hustle, enthusiasm and excellence, ingenuity, and integrity.

We are looking for best-in-class talent to join our community and help us accomplish something extraordinary as we transform the payments industry.

Payments Counsel

We’re seeking an experienced Payments Counsel with experience working in-house to join our Legal team in London, UK.

Reporting directly to the General Counsel, this role will be focused on providing expert advice on global payments (including regulatory and compliance assistance) together with contract drafting and negotiation. Furthermore, this role will involve maintaining and evolving the legal framework and infrastructure to support our rapid business growth.

The ideal candidate for this role is a passionate self-starter, who is looking to take on responsibility to flourish in a role like this, and has extensive experience in managing contracts (specifically drafting and negotiating all types of agreements) as well as contractual operations in a fast-paced environment, preferably in the payments industry.

How You Will Make an Impact:

• By providing complex and technical advice to all facets of the business.
• Acting as a business enabler by supporting the business in all aspects of agreements, from developing internal strategy, through to negotiation and closing of full agreements.
• Managing the entire flow of all contracts, including reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and execution.
• Leading the effort to resolve the majority of client queries and concerns in contract negotiations, including collaboration with internal stakeholders on specific areas of concern.
• Assisting with maintenance and improvements of contracts management processes and systems as well as the implementation and enforcement of contract policies.
• Providing some administrative and other support to the General Counsel.
• General commercial assistance, as and when required.
• Instructing external advisors, where appropriate.

Skills you will have fine-tuned:

• Qualified in legal practice (solicitor/barrister)
• Extensive experience in global payments and contract management
• Experience with data privacy laws and contracts
• Leading customer/partner-facing negotiations, explaining standard agreement terms to counter parties and negotiating.
• Have an excellent understanding of the impact of contract terms, compliance obligations and be able to explain contract terms to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Proven experience in bringing the sales and account teams and the client to final closure on agreements, including obtaining required approvals, creating final agreements, and managing their delivery and execution.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• You thrive in a fast-paced environment and the challenge of managing multiple projects simultaneously while prioritizing business needs.

What’s in it for you:

• We offer you the opportunity to be an innovator, challenge the status quo, and redefine the payments category.
• Competitive salary in a fast-growing start-up.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Performance related bonuses.
• Work from anywhere in the world; we’re a fully distributed company, and we provide the tools, culture, and support to make your work setup work for you

More About CellPoint Digital:

• Our roots are in innovating payment for the airline industry, but we are quickly transforming other verticals including gaming, e-commerce, and marketplaces.
• Our customers include some of the leading brands you know, including Virgin Atlantic, Southwest Airlines, Avianca, but also cutting-edge and emerging brands like MTCGame, a global e-commerce platform for video gamers – and Hoppa, a ground transportation service in the UK.
• We are recognized as a true innovator and were selected to be part of Plug and Play Tech Centre’s Innovation Incubator and identified as the Top Fintech company for 2022 by CIOReview Magazine.
• Proud Member of the Merchant Risk Council, the leading global trade association for eCommerce fraud and payments professionals, as well as leading organizations within the airline industry including the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the Center for Aviation (CAPA), and the Latin American and Caribbean Air Transport Association (ALTA)
• We believe in doing the right thing for our planet and have received CarbonNeutral® certification from the Carbon Neutral Company, the global standard in helping companies achieve carbon neutrality by calculating a carbon footprint and reducing it to zero through a combination of in-house efficiency measures and external emission reduction project support.

The company has raised $56 million in venture funding. Investors include Toscafund and Penta Capital.