Job Description

We're searching for an exceptional junior lawyer with a passion for all things corporate and a hunger to learn. If you're eager to be at the heart of the action in a fast-growing company, this is the role for you. Reporting directly to the Senior Legal Counsel (Corporate), this position offers a blend of professional variety and personal fulfilment. You'll have the autonomy to shape and own your areas of responsibility while building strong relationships across the business.

Join us in building a legal function that delivers a best-in-class service, collaborating seamlessly with all teams. Moneybox is at an exciting stage of growth, and our Legal Team is right in the thick of it. We've laid a strong foundation and are now ready to support our business as it prepares for its next stage of growth. This is your chance to make a tangible impact on our corporate roadmap and contribute to our ongoing success.
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What you'll do

+ As a key member of the Legal Team, you will: + Help us continue to build a function that delivers a best-in-class legal service to the business, working collaboratively with all other teams.
+ Draft, negotiate and advise on agreements across a broad spectrum of corporate matters.
+ Work closely with the Legal Director, Senior Legal Counsel (Corporate) and Head of Corporate Development to assist with the design and execution of the corporate roadmap.
+ Assist with corporate governance and company secretarial matters, including preparing board memos, board meeting assistance and wider governance maturation.
+ Manage and advise internal and external stakeholders, including investors and external counsel.
+ Support on a broad range of other legal activities, including IP, supplier management, employment, property and litigation.
+ Stay up-to-date on relevant legal developments and proactively advise the business on potential impacts.
+ Work closely with and manage external legal advisors.

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Experience and Skills

+ NQ-4 years PQE lawyer, ideally from a top-tier law firm. If you have spent some time in-house at a start-up or scale-up, that's definitely a bonus. Financial services / regulated industry experience would be a bonus.
+ Experience drafting and negotiating a wide variety of transactional agreements.
+ Experience with company secretarial matters, including shareholder and Board resolutions, company books, governance committees, and Companies House filings.
+ Pragmatic approach to advice, with the ability to understand our business and apply an appropriate commercial lens to reviews.
+ Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with a proven ability to juggle and prioritise a large number of competing matters.
+ Strong relationship-building and influencing skills.
+ Excellent communication and negotiation skills, both written and verbal.
+ Experience with legal research.
+ - PQE is a guide - your ability and skills are worth more to us than your years qualified.

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What's in it for you

+ Opportunity to join a fast-growing, award-winning and super ambitious startup. + Work with a friendly team of highly motivated individuals.
+ Be in an environment where you are listened to and can actually have an impact.
+ Thriving collaborative and inclusive company culture.
+ Company shares.
+ Company pension scheme.
+ Hybrid working environment.
+ Home office furniture allowance.
+ Personal Annual Learning and Development budget.
+ Private Medical Insurance.
+ Health Cash Plan (cashback on visits to the dentist & opticians etc).
+ Cycle to work scheme.
+ Gympass subscription to a variety of gyms and wellbeing apps.
+ Enhanced parental pay & leave.
+ 25 days holiday + bank holidays with additional days added with length of service.
+ Plus many more
+ Our office is in London, by the Oxo Tower

Our Commitment to DE&I

At Moneybox, we promote, support and celebrate inclusion, diversity and equity for all, so that everyone can bring their full selves to work. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and that if our team is representative of our community of customers, we can better support their needs. To ensure our recruitment processes provide an equal opportunity for all applicants to succeed, we encourage you to let us know if there are any adjustments that we can make. We are open-minded and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure all applicants can present their full self and potential

Working Policy:

We have a hybrid policy that includes 2 days from our London office and 3 from home. If the role states it is either hybrid or remote candidates must be based within the UK.

Visa Sponsorship:

At this time we cannot offer visa sponsorship for this role and we cannot consider overseas applications.

Please read before you apply!

Please note if offered a position, the offer is conditional and subject to the receipt of satisfactory pre-employment checks which we will conduct such as criminal record and adverse credit history checks. As a regulated financial business, an adverse financial history could impact your suitability for the role. If you are aware of anything that could affect your suitability for the role, please let us know in advance. By sending us your application you acknowledge and agree to Moneybox using your personal data as described below.

We collect applicants' personal data to manage our recruitment related activities. Consequently, we may use your personal data to evaluate your application, to select and shortlist applicants, to set up and conduct interviews and tests, to evaluate and assess the results, and as is otherwise needed in the recruitment process generally.We do not share your personal data with unauthorised third parties. However, we may, if necessary, share your personal data to carefully selected third parties acting on our behalf. This may include transfers to servers and databases outside the country where you provided us with your personal data. Such transfers may include for example transfers and/or disclosures outside the European Economic Area and in the United States of America.
If you are unsuccessful in your application, we may keep your details on file so that we can tell you about other suitable vacancies which may be of interest to you when they arise in the future. If you would rather we did not keep your details on file, you can contact us at email: DPO@moneyboxapp.com

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