Everything we do, starts with you. Together with you, we build the most human-centric fintech. To enable everyone’s future financial growth.

We are looking for a

Legal Counsel (m/f/d)

(unlimited, fulltime) Join our team at our location in Varberg – flexible working conditions available

Riverty has a Europe-wide legal function with around 30 employees, and nine of them are based in Varberg, Sweden. The position is for a Legal Counsel role and you will be part of an international team of lawyers working from Sweden, Finland, Norway and the Netherlands, reporting to the General Counsel of Riverty’s European business unit 3rd Party Debt Collection & Dept Purchase (“3DC&DP”). In this role, you will have a broad in-house lawyer role. As Legal Counsel you will cooperate closely with lawyers throughout the entire group of companies. Jointly run initiatives are encouraged. The daily work will also entail close contacts with other functions such as Product, Sales, Marketing, Risk, Compliance, Finance and Operations.

Your main responsibilities:

• You provide support and advice on a wide range of corporate and commercial law matters related to the business e.g. consumer credit, consumer law and licensing matters – both on a national and cross-border level.
• You are assessing new business models/solutions, assessing end-user solutions and interfaces.
• You draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements and set-ups (and other legal documents).
• You contribute to constant improvement of the legal function as a whole, and its ways of working, to ensure a highly effective legal function that provides due value to all stakeholders and where the co-workers thrive.
• You develop checklists, policies, processes, conduct trainings etc. to contribute to due legal awareness and operational efficiency.

Who you are:

• You have five to eight years of solid and relevant work experience within industries similar to ours and you are knowledgeable within financial services and there to related matters in international environments.
• In terms of areas of law, we believe you are quite experienced in the following areas: debt collection law and regulatory matters in debt collection, consumer credit, consumer law, commercial contract law, insolvency law, credit law, property law, finance law and financial regulatory matters.
• Experience from an in-house legal department or a commercial law firm would be meritorious.
• You are able to translate complicated legal matters into commercially relevant and easy to understand advice, able to prioritize given the ever-varying needs of the stakeholders, comfortable with change and uncertainty, service minded and you act with a high degree of integrity.
• You have a Swedish law degree and you need to be good at communicating, both orally and in writing, in both Swedish and English, which is our corporate language.

Thrive at Riverty with great benefits:

• Enjoy an open, trusting culture in agile teams and access opportunities within the Bertelsmann Group.
• Prioritize your health with supported sports and leisure activities.
• Grow together through Riverty Academy trainings and personalized development.
• Feel valued with numerous employee discounts.
• Our flexible working arrangements empower you to blend on-site collaboration with remote work, tailoring your professional experience to suit your lifestyle.

This list doesn’t assure any certain benefits or actions. They might depend on the country or contract details and can change anytime without prior notice. We are happy to discuss these benefits further during your interview.

About us

We are Riverty. And we believe everyone should be in control of their financials. We ask you to join in. Because together with you, we build the most human-centric fintech. We build on experience of more than 50 years. More than 5,000 people in 13 countries drive our company and contribution to society. And we have their backs. We make sure they feel supported and included: Across teams, across physical and invisible borders and across the globe.

Our world is growing. And we’re here. Together, we’re finding smarter, simpler, seamlessly connected ways to manage money. By leveraging data and financial technology, our holistic solutions provide flexible payments, smarter accounting, and fair debt collection, all aimed at fostering everyone’s financial growth.

And. Everything we do, starts with you. Join us and let‘s build a more sustainable financial future, together.

We keep what we promise:

More information on riverty.com/careers. Are you already convinced? Then we look forward to receiving your online application – with just a few clicks.
We look forward to applications from candidates who contribute to the diversity of our company. We relate diversity in particular to the dimensions of cultural or social origin, religion, age, disability, gender and sexual identity.

Company: Riverty Sweden AB

Country: Sweden

State/Region: Hallands län [SE-13]

City: Varberg

Postal Code: 432 15

Job ID: 259130