Senior Corporate Counsel

Role Overview

• Serve as an SME, providing strategic counsel on a broad range of complex regulatory issues impacting our Banking and Capital Markets divisions in the Americas region, partnering with the LCCA group, and other key stakeholders across the Company.
• Guide the business through rapidly evolving laws, rules and regulations, helping to implement a scalable control environment that enables growth and innovation while ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Advise on regulations impacting FIS products and services, regulated entities, and leading on regulatory licensing processes.
• Provide legal advice on specialist AML, sanctions, trade compliance and antitrust/competition risks and issues.
• Advise the Company on the impacts of, and compliance with, applicable ESG/sustainability regulations.
• Support engagements with federal and state regulators: advising on responding to regulatory notices, enquiries, exams, or other correspondence with regulatory agencies.
• Act as a thought leader for the Company on regulatory policy and legislative developments impacting FIS and its customers and clients, particularly in the areas of AI, Digital Assets and Fraud /Financial Crime.
• Support M&A due diligence and integration efforts, identifying and mitigating regulatory risks for the Company.
• Provide specialist legal support in the development of relevant FIS policies, governance frameworks and customer and consumer communications and disclosures.
• Provide training and awareness to colleagues on compliance with emerging regulations and regulatory risk issues, partnering cross-functionally with LCCA, Risk and the business.
• Direct and manage relationships with outside counsel as required, ensuring the delivery of timely, consistently excellent and cost-effective advice.

Requirements

• J.D. with active membership in at least one state bar.
• Significant experience in U.S. regulatory legal and compliance matters.
• Relevant prior in-house experience within a financial services and/or technology company is strongly preferred.
• Broad-based, excellent knowledge of U.S. banking, payments & capital markets regulations, with a strong track record of advising on complex regulatory issues.
• Experience in dealing with a range of US federal and state regulators, e.g. the Fed, OCC, FDIC, CFPB, SEC, FINRA and the FFIEC.
• Strong communication, research, writing, and analytical skills, including drafting of advice, as well as the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to review and evaluate multi-faceted issues and counsel business colleagues on complex legal questions relating to various regulatory issues.
• Experience advising clients in a complex, diversified, global organization.
• Experience prioritizing and managing multiple projects efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced business environment and driving complex projects to completion.
• Confident and proactive self-starter with strong interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to provide sound legal advice, exercise good judgement, and work well with senior management and cross functional stakeholders.

Benefits

• Opportunities to innovate in fintech
• Tools for personal and professional growth
• Inclusive and diverse work environment
• Resources to invest in your community
• Competitive salary and benefits