Legal Consultant & Compliance Manager (m/f/d)

OPEX
Munich, Germany

Who we are - the Gini Community

Founded in 2011 Gini is a well-established award-winning FinTech company disrupting the banking, accounting, and insurance sector. Our most well-known product is our photo payment software assistant. With this and our other products, we want to enhance everyone’s quality of life - by automating tedious, mindless tasks. What’s special about us: We place a high value on self-organization and autonomy, which we integrate into our daily work life with flat hierarchies. Transparency, innovation, and continuous improvement are fundamental pillars in the way we work together.
Besides other awards in Gini’s early years, like the “Innovationspreis IT” in 2018, we received the “Top Arbeitgeber 2020” by Focus, "Finance Product of the Year 2022" and "Top Company" of the year 2023 & 2024 by kununu.

Together with the Operational Excellence Manager / Information Security Officer, you will form a new team within the company, focusing on all legal matters and compliance guidelines to ensure the company consistently adheres to laws and regulations. You will collaborate closely with Management, People & Culture, and Finance & Procurement to handle contractual matters with applicants, employees, customers, and service providers quickly and securely. Acting as a coordinator and legal expert, you will engage with specialized lawyers as needed.

Your playing field at Gini

• Compliance Management: You contribute to the design, implementation, and monitoring of compliance guidelines to ensure adherence to legal, internal, and client-specific requirements and regulations
• Contract Review and Drafting: You create and review contracts, such as supply, service, distribution, and cooperation agreements, to ensure our business relationships are legally secure and economically advantageous
• Legal Consultation: You support our teams with legal questions, particularly in areas such as employment law, contract law, corporate law, data protection, and information security. As the first point of contact for legal queries in day-to-day operations, you take responsibility and provide assistance to our teams
• Training and Awareness: You develop and deliver internal training on compliance topics and raise employee awareness of legal issues to enhance risk awareness
• Documentation and Reporting: You maintain thorough documentation and prepare reports related to compliance and contract matters. You support audits and create internal policies and guidelines

Skills to be successful

• You have successfully completed a degree in business law or a comparable qualification (e.g., Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws)
• You have several years of professional experience in compliance, contract law, or corporate law, ideally in the payments or banking sector
• Ideally, you have knowledge of digital products and cloud services, particularly Software-as-a-Service, or are quick to acquire it
• You have a solid understanding of contract law, IT law, and, ideally, payments law, competition and trademark law, and KYC/KYB
• You possess analytical thinking skills and a strong grasp of economic interrelationships, coupled with a high affinity for legal topics
• You demonstrate communication strength, assertiveness, a sense of responsibility, and proactivity
• You exhibit a structured, meticulous, and precise approach to work and are willing to delve into new topics
• You have excellent German and English skills, both written and spoken

Your perks

• You have the choice - Mobile working from home or in our bright office with two spacious roof terraces, according to your needs
• Flexibility - early bird or a night owl, you have flexible working hours
• Growing together - further development is crucial, so you will receive an annual budget of €2,500 net and additional days off for your personal and professional development. In addition, we give you one learning day off per month, which you can use according to your development needs
• Exclusive access to our external coaching pool: enjoy free coaching sessions on topics of your choice!
• 50€ net per month on top - which you can use for childcare, public transport, internet or health courses according to your needs
• Food allowance - We have an excellent employee restaurant in our office building where you can get delicious food with our allowance of 3€ per day
• Lots of different team events: we know how important team cohesion is, so we regularly organize team and company-wide events and activities
• Mobility: On the one hand, we cover the costs of underground parking so that you can get to work comfortably and stress-free by car. On the other hand, we offer our employees the opportunity to lease a JobRad. This allows you to make your commute to work in an environmentally friendly and healthy way and at the same time benefit from tax advantages.
• State-of-the-art equipment with Apple products: We place great value on modern and powerful technology and therefore offer our employees the latest Apple products as hardware
• Shared feedback culture with purpose - A feedback-driven culture full of purpose and community. Click on kununu and Glassdoor to find out what our employees and candidates are saying about Gini

Sounds like the right challenge for you?