RemoFirst is transforming the way businesses hire and manage global teams. Our mission is to enable Freedom of Work by providing an all-in-one global HR platform that simplifies hiring, compliance, payroll, and benefits management. We partner with some of the world’s most innovative companies, including Fortune 500 businesses and leading startups.
We are a small but strong team of 200+ people (and growing) hyper-focused on delivering a world-class platform and unparalleled service with our industry-leading partnerships.
As Global Legal Associate , Fintech & Compliance, you'll be the legal partner to our Product, Engineering and Finance teams on everything that moves money: payroll funding, contractor payouts, cross-border payments, deposits and FX. You'll get involved early, turn regulation into clear product requirements and help us launch quickly without creating regulatory risk. You'll also help run the fintech compliance programme that keeps those products sound once they're live.
What you'll do
Product:
- Work with Product and Engineering from discovery through launch on payments, payroll and payout features.
- Assess how money flows should be structured, for example whether a flow triggers licensing requirements (money transmission, e-money or payment services) and how to meet or design around them.
- Turn regulatory requirements into clear, practical product requirements.
- Draft and maintain product terms, payment terms, disclosures and in-product legal text.
- Draft, review and help negotiate agreements with partner banks, payment providers and FX partners.
- Carry out legal reviews for launches in new markets and for new payment features.
- Help make balanced risk calls and propose compliant alternatives rather than simply blocking work.
Fintech compliance:
- Support the development and day-to-day running of the compliance framework for our payment activities, including AML/CTF, KYC/KYB and sanctions screening.
- Help assess licensing and registration needs across markets and our obligations under partner bank and financial institutions arrangements.
- Help draft and maintain policies, controls, transaction monitoring and regulatory reporting.
- Support engagement with regulators, auditors, financial institutions and banks' compliance teams.
- Keep track of regulatory change in payments, data protection and AI, and assess the impact on our products.
- Train internal teams on compliance obligations and build a culture where risk is raised early.
