Juriste acheteur au sein de la Direction Achats, exécutant la sécurité juridique et économiques des achats. Accompagner les services dans leurs projets d’achats et gérer les difficultés d’exécution.
About the role
- Legal Counsel supporting corporate transactions and company secretarial needs for Wayflyer, a FinTech company. Providing strategic legal advice and managing documentation related to various transactions.
Responsibilities
- Support our CLO on corporate transactions and strategic initiatives, including equity raises, acquisitions, inter-company arrangements and other ad hoc transactions.
- Draft, review and coordinate transaction documentation, pre and post-completion deliverables and ancillary documents.
- Work closely with internal teams and external advisers to ensure the smooth and efficient completion of transactions.
- Lead and manage our global company secretarial requirements across the group, ensuring Irish and international statutory compliance, maintaining statutory registers and records and liaising with external company secretarial providers.
- Partner with our Finance and People teams to support our equity management processes, including maintaining cap tables, liaising with equity platform providers, managing employee queries and processing equity transactions.
- Partner with our Finance team to support audit processes.
- Provide ad hoc legal support to internal stakeholders on a range of matters relating to Wayflyer’s financial products, such as customer deals and vendor commercial contracts.
- Partner with our Capital Markets and Finance teams on a broad range of financing and debt capital markets transactions.
- Manage and coordinate external counsel in multiple jurisdictions where required to ensure timely and expert support.
- Drive continuous improvements in governance, documentation, company secretarial and other internal processes, including through leveraging AI tools and agent-driven workflows.
Requirements
- You are an Irish or UK qualified lawyer.
- You have 1 - 3 years’ experience working as a transactional lawyer, either in practice or in-house, with experience in corporate M&A, capital markets and/or banking matters.
- You ideally have some experience with company secretarial matters, whether through your day-to-day role or as part of a training seat, and are comfortable leading on company secretarial and statutory compliance requirements.
- You have strong commercial acumen and attention to detail, can work autonomously without the need for significant guidance or input and can make risk-based decisions, seeking appropriate guidance and input at appropriate junctures.
- You demonstrate strong curiosity about AI, automation and agent-driven workflows and how these tools can be applied to drive improvements and efficiencies across legal, compliance and company secretarial processes.
- You are able to work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to drive efficiencies in transaction processes.
- You can work at pace and deal effectively with ambiguity.
- You have a proactive approach with excellent interpersonal skills and have the ability to use your initiative and work as part of a team.
- You are flexible (and can work flexible hours to suit business requirements) and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
- You have strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your own workload and manage competing deadlines.
- You have an ownership mentality, always seeking to improve Wayflyer's success, even in functions outside of Legal.
- You have high energy and enthusiasm for how the legal department can bring value to the business and help it resolve some of its hardest problems.
- Experience with G-Suite, DocuSign, Notion and/or equity management platforms such as Ledgy would be an advantage but are not required.
Benefits
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- Access support and resources to support your wellbeing, including our *Wellbeing @ Wayflyer* ERG
- Private healthcare
- Life insurance
- Critical illness cover
- Pension plan
- Generous parental and adoptive leave, including 6 months of paid leave for Primary Caregivers and 3 months of paid leave for Secondary Caregivers
- Equity scheme
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