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Mynt

Legal Counsel

stockholm, stockholm county, sweden / Posted
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Would you like to be part of the journey in one of Europes fastest growing fintech? 🚀


About Mynt

Mynt is an all-in-one corporate card and spend management solution, on a mission to fundamentally reinvent business banking forever. Our digital software, coupled with corporate cards and payments infrastructure, eradicates manual administrative tasks for businesses. Experiencing huge growth in the Swedish and Finnish markets, we have recently secured substantial funding to fuel our expansion both in Sweden and internationally.


Mynt is a tech-first company with a product oriented mindset. We empowering all our employees to be their best in ideating and creating innovative solutions to the multitude of complex problems we work with every day.


In 2021, we obtained our financial license as an e-money institution, card issuer, and payment processor from the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen). In 2022, we announced a partnership with Fortnox, integrating corporate cards within their platform. Early in 2023, a similar card-issuing partnership was announced with Accountor Group in Finland. Additional partnerships are in progress and under development.


Joining Mynt means contributing to creating an exceptional product and company. We seek passionate individuals who thrive in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing customer value. With around 60 employees, we are now expanding our team further to support our growth.


About the role

As our Legal Counsel you will report to our Chief Legal Officer and work closely with internal and external stakeholders. Your will have broad ownership and mandate over our regulatory and proactive financial crime fighting activities. This includes managing our existing foundation of policies and processes, developing these further as our product, customer base, and partnerships expand, and ensuring we stay up to date on new regulations and trends in the industry.


You'll also work with our AML/Fraud team to ensure they have the necessary know-how and support to do their work effectively. Furthermore you'll work with CTO and CPO in implementing effective risk management strategies. Finally you'll work with the broader management team to ensure all stakeholders are duly informed of situation and developments. You will be a central part of building our legal and compliance team as we expand our business.


Your main responsibilities

  • Provide legal advice and guidance on a wide range of issues.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts.
  • Broad ownership and mandate for regulatory and proactive financial crime fighting activities
  • Manage and build out and the AML/Fraud team as we expand
  • Determine and execute on annual plans, which includes new regulatory developments, risk assessment, developing policy base, and trainings
  • Drive development and implementation of risk management and compliance frameworks, including drafting and revising internal governing documents (policies etc)
  • Report the status of the AML/KYC to our management team
  • Advise and support internal stakeholders on legal, compliance and risk related matters
  • Regulatory horizon scanning
  • Monitor, track and share knowledge on regulatory intelligence


Qualifications

  • Swedish Master's degree in law
  • 3-5 years relevant working experience perhaps from a regulatory/supervisory financial environment or from a consultancy firm working with compliance or risk related issues towards the financial industry
  • High level of attention to detail and accuracy, combined with a proactive, pragmatic and creative approach to legal challenges.
  • Experience in risk management and performing controls is an advantage
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills
  • Can-do attitude and take ownership of given and proactively identified tasks
  • Fluent in Swedish and English is a requirement


What we can offer you

  • Be part of building and owning a function at a fast-growing scale-up
  • Work closely with a fun, high-performing team across various functions
  • Enjoy a flexible working environment with a great office location in central Stockholm
  • Shape your own development and responsibilities based on your passion and interest


The position will be filled as soon as we find a suitable candidate. Please reach out to us as soon as possible if you believe this is for you!