Licensing Regulatory Counsel

About Paysafe

Paysafe is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With 29 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $152 billion in 2024, and approximately 3,000 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in 48 currencies around the world. Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick-and-mortar and online payments. Further information is available at www.paysafe.com.

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Role: Licensing Regulatory Counsel

What Paysafe stands for:

• Being open and honest.
• Keeping focused.
• Operating with Courage.
• Pioneering the future.

Our values and culture are driven by Equality, Development, Social Responsibility and Wellbeing. If you want to find out more about life at Paysafe, check out our careers page here. 

How we work:

Our preference is for the job holder to follow our hybrid model of 3 days a week on average per week at this office, in the heart of Dublin

The impact you will have:

In this role you will be working closely and collaboratively with colleagues across the business to advise the business on applicable e-money and payment services licensing and regulatory requirements.

• Engage and manage local external counsel for the purpose of Identify and analysing the licensing or registration criteria applicable to the business activity in a particular jurisdiction.
• Supporting the internal strategic decision-making process with clear and comprehensive advice on local law licensing requirements and conditions.
• Leading on the submission of licensing or registration applications including co-ordinating and reviewing multi-disciplinary contributions to the application.
• Innovating the application preparation process to achieve efficiencies and reduce duplication of effort across applications, where possible.
• Managing the application process to meet the agreed timelines.
• Engaging with local regulatory authorities and co-ordinating supplemental information requests.
• Ensuring that robust processes are in place to maintain ongoing licensing conditions and requirements.
• Providing status reports on live applications including delivery of updates to internal Committees and Boards.
• Proactively identify and contribute to the management of regulatory risk.
• Monitoring for regulatory changes that may impact licence applications.
• Draft positions papers, commentary and knowledge sharing materials for internal and external circulation.
• Respond to consultations on proposed regulatory changes and participate in related lobbying activity.
• Represent Paysafe at external meetings including with industry bodies.

What we’re looking for:

• Qualified lawyer with 5+ years' PQE
• Financial services regulation experience gained in a financial institution, regulator or financial services department of a law firm with experience of regulatory licence and registration applications.
• Payments/E-Money industry experience preferred
• Team player with high self-motivation, positive ‘can-do’ attitude and collaborative approach.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex legal issues to multi-disciplinary teams.
• Excellent organisation and project management skills including document management.

A snippet of what you’ll get in return:

• Enjoy free breakfast available for you to better your mornings
• You decide what your holiday looks like with the option to buy or sell your holiday and carry over up to 5 days into the next year.
• Don’t want to use up all your holiday days? Take advantage of the opportunity to work abroad up to 2 weeks in the year from any location (subject to HR approval)
• Let’s not forget, we also offer: Private health insurance (pre-existing conditions are included, Fertility cover & Travel cover), income protection, life assurance and more.
• Spend time with those important to you with our enhanced paid family policies.
• Test our products Skrill, Neteller and Paysafe Card. Upon joining we will award you £50 into each wallet.
• Kickstart your weekend early with our summer hours during the months of June, July and August with a 3pm finish every Friday.
• Join our six employee-led equality communities and help foster a workplace that celebrates diversity and create opportunities to collaborate and learn.

What to expect next:

1. Phone screen with Talent Acquisition
2. Video interview with the Hiring Manager.
3. In-person interview
4. Final HR interview with Talent Acquisition

Equal Employment Opportunity

Paysafe is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to providing a work environment of mutual respect to everyone without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.