Role Overview
We are seeking a detail-oriented, proactive legal professional (with at least 1 year of prior legal experience) to join our fintech legal and compliance team. As a Legal Associate you will help support the companys operations by drafting/reviewing contracts, ensuring regulatory compliance, supporting product/legal due-diligence, and enabling safe and scalable business growth.
This is a hands-on role ideal for someone comfortable working in a fast-paced fintech/startup environment, collaborating across Product, Ops, Finance, Risk, and Business teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of legal documents and agreements — e.g. NDAs, vendor/supplier agreements, service level agreements (SLAs), technology & IT-service contracts, customer contracts, partnership agreements, licensing agreements, etc.
- Support onboarding of partners, vendors, banks/payment service providers (PSPs), including due diligence, contract documentation, and legal/compliance checks.
- Help ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations — for example in payments, lending, data protection/privacy, KYC/AML, fintech & financial-services regulation, electronic-money / prepaid instruments (as applicable), and corporate law.
- Conduct legal research and monitor updates to regulations, guidelines, or statutory changes; provide timely summaries or recommendations to internal stakeholders (Product, Risk, Compliance, Operations, etc.).
- Assist with corporate and secretarial work: maintaining statutory records, entity-level documentation, board and corporate resolutions, filings/renewals, licensing/permit applications (if applicable), entity formation, annual compliance, etc.
- Work cross-functionally with business, operations, product, risk and compliance teams to provide legal support for new products/features — flag legal risks, propose mitigation, help shape contract terms or policy language as needed.
- Maintain organized contract repositories, trackers, and internal legal documentation. Ensure that all legal paperwork and compliance filings are properly maintained and accessible.
- Provide ad-hoc legal support, responses to regulatory queries or audits, coordinate with external counsel if needed, and support any litigation or dispute resolution when required.
Minimum Eligibility & Qualifications
- Law degree (LL.B or equivalent) from a recognised university/institution.
- Minimum
1 year
of prior legal experience (including law-firm work, in-house counsel role, or internship + relevant exposure) — ideally exposure to fintech, banking/financial services, technology, or corporate law. - Strong legal drafting, review and negotiation skills (contracts, commercial, IT or vendor agreements) — with clear, concise, and business-oriented writing.
- Good understanding (or interest/willingness to learn) of regulations relevant to fintech/financial services — payments, lending, data privacy, AML/KYC, digital-lending/PPIs (as per your product offerings).
- Strong research and analytical skills — ability to interpret new laws/regulations and propose implications for business.
- Ability to work proactively and independently in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; high sense of ownership; comfortable handling multiple tasks and priorities; good across teams (business, product, ops, compliance, external counsel, etc.)
- Good communication skills (written & verbal) to liaise with internal teams, external stakeholders, regulators, or counsel as needed.
- Basic organizational and documentation skills — maintain trackers, contract databases, compliance logs and internal legal records.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience or familiarity with data privacy frameworks (data protection laws/regulations, data-sharing agreements, privacy policies, cross-border data flow compliance).
- Understanding of digital-lending, PPI/prepaid instruments, payments / EMI regulations, KYC/AML norms, data protection / IT laws
- Prior exposure to start-up or high-growth environment / lean operations / fast-paced work environment.
- Experience with corporate secretarial tasks, entity formation, licensing, regulatory filings.
- Familiarity with contract-lifecycle management (CLM) tools, document management systems, digital-signature tools (like DocuSign or equivalents).
- Ability to interpret regulatory impact across products, assist in policy drafting (privacy policy, terms of service/user agreements, compliance manuals.
Soft Skills & Workplace Mindset
- High integrity, confidentiality and ethical standards.
- Strong attention to detail, but also pragmatic and business-oriented.
- Comfortable working under ambiguity and evolving regulations.
- Proactive attitude — identifies issues early, flags risks, suggests practical solutions.
- Team player — can coordinate across legal, compliance, product, ops, business, and external counsel.
- Good time-management, ability to prioritise workload, meet deadlines and handle multiple concurrent tasks.
What You’ll Get
- Exposure to fast-growing fintech products and business models — payments, lending, digital services, etc.
- Opportunity to work across legal, compliance, regulatory, commercial and corporate aspects — broad exposure.
- Ability to shape internal legal processes, policies, and frameworks in a growing organisation.
- Work with cross-functional teams — product, ops, risk, compliance, business — gaining business + legal understanding.
- Competitive salary and benefits
