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Mercuryo is an international company that creates a new generation of financial services for the business sector.
We is backed by a team of 200+ professionals and a high profile fintech investor. Together we create cutting-edge business payment solutions combining conventional and crypto finance. This is the future, and we already know something about it.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct audits of business processes, including access provisioning, partner verification, and financial reporting, to ensure compliance with established policies and procedures.
- Identify and evaluate risks associated with the audited processes and systems.
- Analyze audit findings and provide recommendations for mitigating identified risks.
- Develop and implement risk management strategies, policies, and procedures.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement control mechanisms to minimize risks.
- Monitor changes in business processes and assess their potential impact on risk exposure.
- Provide guidance and support to teams in implementing and adhering to risk management and control measures.
- Maintain documentation of audit findings, risk assessments, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Communicate risk-related information to relevant stakeholders, including management and decision-makers.
- Stay updated on industry regulations, best practices, and emerging risks to ensure the company's risk management processes remain effective and up to date.

Requirements:

- Minimum of 3+ years of experience in IT and audit, preferably in a risk management or compliance-related role
- Strong understanding of risk management principles, methodologies, and best practices.
- Proficient knowledge of auditing techniques and standards.
- Familiarity with regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements relevant to the industry
- Knowledge of pci dss, sox, soc 2, iso 27001
- Fluent Russian language proficiency
- Strong problem-solving abilities to provide effective recommendations for risk mitigation
- Professional certifications such as Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), or similar qualifications would be a plus
- Familiarity with IT systems, security controls, and data protection practices.
- Strong communication skills to effectively convey risk-related information and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate documentation of audit findings and risk assessments.

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The purpose of the role is to support the wider business in its commercial aims and to ensure we continue to meet our regulatory obligations to the high standards we have come to expect. In return, the Senior Legal Counsel will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of areas in the increasingly important world of fintech payments and virtual assets and have a real impact on the growth of the firm.

Requirements:

🔹 5+ years' experience working within financial services in the UK/EU, ideally within an EMI/PI, a fintech, a challenger bank, and/or a crypto-asset service provider;
🔹 A practising lawyer with a minimum of 5 years professional experience in financial markets, banking and/or financial services gained at a reputable law firm or in-house.
🔹 Ideally exposure to regulatory compliance, including financial crime, outside of Europe, such as North America or Asia;
🔹Strong interest in and common understanding of crypto-assets and crypto-related products and/or stocks / trading as well as a good working knowledge of traditional financial products.
🔹Excellent knowledge of corporate structures, financial institutions and the regulatory environment, especially in relation to AMLD5, MICA, PSD2 and EMD2 (and its UK equivalents).
🔹Team player, quick comprehension, solution-oriented way of working, ability to work reliably both independently as well as part of a team.
🔹Diplomatic and effective communicator, with the ability to effectively communicate with all levels of the business from the C-suite to graduate level.
🔹Fluency in English is required.

Tasks:

🔹Be the key legal point of contact for various product related topics, assisting with product innovation, design and rollout;
🔹Work closely with different departments within Mercuryo to provide the background and structure for Mercuryo’s business model, through licensing, documentation and regulatory advice;
🔹Advise on white label partnerships, marketing, financial promotions, vendor governance and outsourcing and any other matters that may arise in the day-to-day operations of an expanding global fintech;
🔹Draft and revise all business and legal documents relating to licensing, new products and expansion of existing products, including business plans, contracts, general terms and conditions, internal and external policies, capital requirement documents, and anything else that the business may require as part of its set up and the beginning of its business operations; and
🔹Push high priority projects, monitor internal and external processes and prepare project specific reports for management, both within the legal team and the business at large, as well as coordinating contact with and reporting to regulators.