Company Description
Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world’s money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed.
Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their life easier and save them money.
As part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money. For everyone, everywhere.
More about our mission.
Job Description
With a high degree of autonomy, you will be supporting the legal function within the Wise group to help take the business to the next level, including:
- Working closely and building relationships with multiple business units across the Company and across our APAC markets (Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Japan and other regions in APAC) and Gulf markets to advise on a wide range of legal matters and ad hoc problems, including licensing, market entry and partnerships
- Structuring, drafting, and negotiating commercial agreements with banking/payments partners, outsourced service providers and suppliers
- Understanding the real risks to the business and providing practical advice to Product and Expansion teams. Supporting Product and Expansion teams on changes to our customer agreement for new services or new market entry
- Supporting initiatives relating to governance within the group with close support from Group Co Sec
- Liaising with external counsel where required
- Advising on the legal rights and duties of subsidiary companies and their directors in the APAC region
- Working with the Legal team (based in Singapore, London, New York and Estonia) to support the wider needs of the company
- Staying up to date on legal developments in APAC and advising on future-looking initiatives
- Mentoring and upskilling relevant directors, officers and teams, making life simple and easy
This role will give you the opportunity to:
- Define your path to success - you’ll have the freedom and responsibility to help shape what is needed and then make it happen
- Build something for the future - we are continuing to grow rapidly and your work will be crucial in growing and maturing one of the companies of our time
- Inspire with your ideas, knowledge and self-starting attitude
Qualifications
A bit about you:
We are looking for someone passionate about fintech or finance and with an eye on the future. You will ideally have :
- Minimum 5 years of previous firm or in-house experience in APAC, focusing on payments, financial services or technology. Experience in card issuing/acquiring or the Gulf region would be a plus.
- Proven experience with commercial contract structuring, drafting, and negotiation
- Understand how to balance between maturity in corporate governance and operations, and the practical considerations of fast growth and scaling
- Have a track record in project management and clear communication, including being able to focus people behind a common goal and make the complex simple.
- Focus on impact, through trusted relationships
- Have a get-it-done, collaborative approach to problem solving and an ability to seek creative, innovative solutions for complex matters
- Maintain a sense of camaraderie and good humour while under pressure and working to tight deadlines
- Well-organised and able to manage and prioritise numerous projects simultaneously
- Flexible and agile, and able to adapt to changing demands
- Have professionalism and high integrity
Salary range: starting from SGD 202k depending on interview performance + RSUs
This is a full-time position reporting to the Head of Legal based in our Singapore office. Find out more about our benefits here.
If you think you’ve got what it takes, come help us build a beautiful future of money without borders!
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Additional Information
For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.
Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
What We Do
We’re making a positive, irreversible change in the world of finance. Together.
People on every continent around the world are choosing Wise to help them live, travel and work internationally. We’re the fairest, easiest way to send money overseas.
Built by and for people who live global lives, we make sending money abroad up to 8 times cheaper than the bank. This is money without borders - instant, convenient, transparent and eventually free.
For our customers, using Wise is as simple as sending money from A to B, but behind our app and website is a complex engine of currencies and routes, that’s being designed, built and powered by our talented teams in cities around the world.
We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.
Why Work With Us
We are a mission-driven company, looking to change banking for the better. Current banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply. So, we’re building a new one. If you're looking for an autonomous work environment, where you'll face cool challenges, learn and grow, you'll like working at Wise
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Here at Wise we have a hybrid working model – a mix of working from home and from the office. Wisers can also work remotely for 90 days a year. By ‘remote’ we don’t just mean from home, but from wherever in the world you choose to!
