Fintech Lawyer

About the Role

As part of the Corporate Strategy Office, this role reports on various companywide and cross departmental legal projects, and assists in monitoring those projects from inception to execution from legal and strategic perspectives. In this role you will act as a trusted adviser to senior management across a multinational technology group, owning high-impact legal projects from first analysis to execution. Day-to-day work is guided by a Senior Project Manager.

Responsibilities

Brand-led financial services

• Help drive exciting new strategic fintech initiatives, building payment, digital banking and crypto-asset solutions from the ground up.
• Support the legal workstreams of a potential new regulated financial services venture, including licensing strategy, regulatory engagement and corporate set-up.
• Structure and negotiate partnerships with card issuers, payment schemes, banking and e-money partners, and crypto-asset service providers.
• Advise on the interaction between brand licensing arrangements and financial services regulation, including licensor approvals, marketing restrictions and consumer protection.
• Advise on the applicable regulatory framework, including PSD2/PSD3, EMD, CRD/CRR, MiCA, DORA, AML/KYC and consumer credit rules.

Corporate and legal projects

• Analyse and summarise complex, international and multi-jurisdictional legal, regulatory and corporate matters.
• Prepare clear, actionable legal summaries, comments and recommendations.
• Own and coordinate multiple legal projects and initiatives across business functions simultaneously.
• Support senior management in decision-making, prioritise tasks and take proactive ownership.
• Track execution of management action items and support effective cross-departmental reporting.
• Monitor key corporate legal projects, ensuring efficient and timely completion.
• Help implement and communicate the company's vision and strategy.
• Manage relationships with external counsel, advisors, partners and internal stakeholders.
• Ensure proper review and approval routing of legal documents and materials. Prepare presentations, concepts and analyses for senior management.

Requirements

• A law degree (EU or US; JD or LLM).
• A minimum of 5 years' relevant professional legal experience, ideally in a fast-paced environment (law firm, in-house or a regulated business).
• Experience with banking, payments, e-money or crypto-asset regulation and licensing (for example, with the MNB or another EU regulator).
• Familiarity with co-branded card programmes, brand licensing or consumer-facing financial products.
• Ideally, combined legal and business experience.
• An understanding of holding structures.
• Outstanding analytical, problem-solving and organisational skills.
• Experience working directly with senior leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Full professional fluency in Hungarian and English, with crisp, concise communication; both are daily working languages, used for drafting and negotiating.
• A proactive, pragmatic, flexible and can-do approach.
• The ability to build strong internal and external working relationships.

Nice to have

• Exposure to setting up a new regulated entity or fintech start-up.
• Hands-on use of AI tools in daily legal work.
• A proven project management and KPI-tracking track record.
• Multi-jurisdictional legal experience (for example, across the EU and the US).
• An interest in legal process optimisation and automation.
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders in a structured environment.