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iwoca is a fintech company that specializes in providing flexible and accessible small business loans. They offer quick and convenient funding solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom and Europe. iwoca's ultimate mission is to empower entrepreneurs and small business owners by providing them with the financial support they need to grow and succeed. Their purpose is to fill the funding gap that traditional banks often overlook, offering accessible and transparent lending options that cater to the specific needs of SMEs. By leveraging technology and data-driven assessments, iwoca aims to simplify the loan application process, make funding more accessible, and support the growth of small businesses, ultimately driving economic prosperity and fostering entrepreneurial success.

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iwoca

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You must be a qualified German lawyer fluent in German and English, with experience in commercial contracts, GDPR, in-house environments, and a motivation to deliver high-quality legal work.

You will support German teams with legal advice, draft and negotiate contracts, ensure GDPR compliance, manage external counsel, and mentor a paralegal while enhancing legal processes.

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Frankfurt

We’re looking for a German Legal Counsel We are the leading and fastest growing Alternative Lender in the German market. A market that is still developing and we are there to shape it. Iwoca has established strong cooperations with the leading banks, financial advisors and platforms in Germany, like Commerzbank and eBay.However, we’re still near the start of our journey – our aim is to finance a million small businesses within a decade and so we need more smart, hands-on people to help us reach this goal.We are recruiting a German qualified lawyer on a part-time basis to primarily work with our German business and report to iwoca’s Head of Legal.About us Fast, flexible finance empowers small businesses to manage their cash flow better and seize opportunities - making their business and the economy stronger as a whole. At iwoca, we do just that. We help businesses get the funds they need, when they need it, often within minutes.We’ve already made several billion in funding available to over 100,000 businesses since we launched in 2012, and positioned ourselves as a leading Fintech in Europe. Our mission is to finance one million businesses. We’ll get there by continuing to make our finance ever more relevant and accessible to more businesses by combining cutting-edge technology, data science and a 5-star customer service.Our cultureWe’re expanding fast across our offices in London, Leeds and Frankfurt. With all this growth, we’re looking for people who want to learn on the job and lead projects, knowing that your ideas will impact thousands of small businesses.Your mission<ul><li>Support and advise teams across the German business, including lending propositions (product development), customer acquisition, customer success, marketing and people ops (HR).</li><li>Draft, review and negotiate partnership, customer and supplier contracts by providing pragmatic and commercial support</li><li>identify and implement process improvements to make legal work more efficient, including building out and maintaining templates, playbooks and decision frameworks for our partnership and customer acquisition agreements</li><li>Improve and maintain the business’ policies and procedures relating to GDPR for our key stakeholders - customers, employees and partners</li><li>Instruct and manage external legal counsel, and manage legal budget with the guidance of the Head of Legal and GM of Germany</li><li>Support any regulatory matters relating to licensing to lend to and collect from customers in Germany, and ensure our product complies with all elements of German law.</li><li>Support corporate housekeeping, management of constitutional documents and statutory books, and ongoing filing requirements across our German entities.</li></ul>There will be opportunities for you to:<ul><li>Advise and educate other members of the legal team on areas of your competence through formal and informal training</li><li>Manage and mentor a German-speaking paralegal through tasks assigned to you</li><li>Get involved more broadly with the Legal function, including in the UK and Luxembourg and any other jurisdiction in which we may operate</li></ul>Requirements<ul><li>You are an experienced lawyer, qualified in Germany</li><li>You are fluent in German and English</li><li>You have experience in:</li><li>commercial contracts, partnership and broker agreements</li><li>GDPR and data protection laws, and have been involved in implementing policies and procedures to ensure compliance</li><li>working in an in-house environment, particularly a fintech or finance business</li><li>You are smart, meaning you:</li><li>use thoughtful legal analysis to quickly cut through legal and commercial complexity</li><li>give concrete feedback in a way that facilitates decision-making</li><li>You are motivated, meaning you:</li><li>go above and beyond to deliver high quality legal work in line with deadlines</li><li>curious about all parts of the business and the challenges they face</li><li>You are humble:</li><li>no ego, we’re in it together</li><li>you proactively reflect on individual and team performance on a task.</li><li>understand where gaps exist in legal skills and knowledge and engage external counsel where appropriate.</li><li>It would be also nice if you:</li><li>have some knowledge and understanding of lending businesses, and the regulation applying to business lending in Germany</li><li>have some experience with employment law issues</li><li>have some experience of working with Luxembourg fund structures</li><li>appreciate the importance of quantifying legal risk to inform decision-making</li><li>are willing to work some of the time in one of our offices</li><li>are interested in growing with our dynamic German business and, in the future, other countries in which we may operate</li></ul>We want to make iwoca a place where everyone feels welcome, where you can confidently be yourself. We understand that inclusivity, and diversity that comes through greater inclusivity, isn't an optional add-on; it's the core ingredient of what makes us great. We care about making iwoca a healthy and happy community for all of our team members to thrive in.Our benefitsWe put a lot of effort into making iwoca a brilliant place to work:<ul><li>A smart, motivated and international team (we represent over 35 different nationalities) with ridiculous growth-mindset</li><li>iwoca takes over a ski chalet in winter so that you and your team can ski or snowboard (and work) for a week. During summer we are drawn to the sun.</li><li>Access to the gym membership program</li><li>Exclusive participation in the daily commute</li><li>Our home is in a nice office in the heart of the big city. In Frankfurt in the beautiful Ostend, our London office is located centrally in Fitzrovia</li><li>Company-wide training courses with internal and external speakers</li><li>26 days of vacation a year plus a free day for your birthday</li><li>One-month fully paid sabbatical after 4 years</li><li>Share options</li><li>A paid volunteer day that gives you the opportunity to invest time to support a charity of your choice.</li><li>’iwocans’ also benefit from fully stocked fridges in our offices with whatever is needed to strengthen them. There are snacks (both healthy and less healthy) for the whole day.</li></ul>

We’re looking for a German Legal Counsel We are the leading and fastest growing Alternative Lender in the German market. A market that is still developing and we are there to shape it. Iwoca has established strong cooperations with the leading banks, financial advisors and platforms in Germany, like Commerzbank and eBay.However, we’re still near the start of our journey – our aim is to finance a million small businesses within a decade and so we need more smart, hands-on people to help us reach this goal.We are recruiting a German qualified lawyer on a part-time basis to primarily work with our German business and report to iwoca’s Head of Legal.About us Fast, flexible finance empowers small businesses to manage their cash flow better and seize opportunities - making their business and the economy stronger as a whole. At iwoca, we do just that. We help businesses get the funds they need, when they need it, often within minutes.We’ve already made several billion in funding available to over 100,000 businesses since we launched in 2012, and positioned ourselves as a leading Fintech in Europe. Our mission is to finance one million businesses. We’ll get there by continuing to make our finance ever more relevant and accessible to more businesses by combining cutting-edge technology, data science and a 5-star customer service.Our cultureWe’re expanding fast across our offices in London, Leeds and Frankfurt. With all this growth, we’re looking for people who want to learn on the job and lead projects, knowing that your ideas will impact thousands of small businesses.Your missionSupport and advise teams across the German business, including lending propositions (product development), customer acquisition, customer success, marketing and people ops (HR).Draft, review and negotiate partnership, customer and supplier contracts by providing pragmatic and commercial supportidentify and implement process improvements to make legal work more efficient, including building out and maintaining templates, playbooks and decision frameworks for our partnership and customer acquisition agreementsImprove and maintain the business’ policies and procedures relating to GDPR for our key stakeholders - customers, employees and partnersInstruct and manage external legal counsel, and manage legal budget with the guidance of the Head of Legal and GM of GermanySupport any regulatory matters relating to licensing to lend to and collect from customers in Germany, and ensure our product complies with all elements of German law.Support corporate housekeeping, management of constitutional documents and statutory books, and ongoing filing requirements across our German entities.There will be opportunities for you to:Advise and educate other members of the legal team on areas of your competence through formal and informal trainingManage and mentor a German-speaking paralegal through tasks assigned to youGet involved more broadly with the Legal function, including in the UK and Luxembourg and any other jurisdiction in which we may operateRequirementsYou are an experienced lawyer, qualified in GermanyYou are fluent in German and EnglishYou have experience in:commercial contracts, partnership and broker agreementsGDPR and data protection laws, and have been involved in implementing policies and procedures to ensure complianceworking in an in-house environment, particularly a fintech or finance businessYou are smart, meaning you:use thoughtful legal analysis to quickly cut through legal and commercial complexitygive concrete feedback in a way that facilitates decision-makingYou are motivated, meaning you:go above and beyond to deliver high quality legal work in line with deadlinescurious about all parts of the business and the challenges they faceYou are humble:no ego, we’re in it togetheryou proactively reflect on individual and team performance on a task.understand where gaps exist in legal skills and knowledge and engage external counsel where appropriate.It would be also nice if you:have some knowledge and understanding of lending businesses, and the regulation applying to business lending in Germanyhave some experience with employment law issueshave some experience of working with Luxembourg fund structuresappreciate the importance of quantifying legal risk to inform decision-makingare willing to work some of the time in one of our officesare interested in growing with our dynamic German business and, in the future, other countries in which we may operateWe want to make iwoca a place where everyone feels welcome, where you can confidently be yourself. We understand that inclusivity, and diversity that comes through greater inclusivity, isn't an optional add-on; it's the core ingredient of what makes us great. We care about making iwoca a healthy and happy community for all of our team members to thrive in.Our benefitsWe put a lot of effort into making iwoca a brilliant place to work:A smart, motivated and international team (we represent over 35 different nationalities) with ridiculous growth-mindsetiwoca takes over a ski chalet in winter so that you and your team can ski or snowboard (and work) for a week. During summer we are drawn to the sun.Access to the gym membership programExclusive participation in the daily commuteOur home is in a nice office in the heart of the big city. In Frankfurt in the beautiful Ostend, our London office is located centrally in FitzroviaCompany-wide training courses with internal and external speakers26 days of vacation a year plus a free day for your birthdayOne-month fully paid sabbatical after 4 yearsShare optionsA paid volunteer day that gives you the opportunity to invest time to support a charity of your choice.’iwocans’ also benefit from fully stocked fridges in our offices with whatever is needed to strengthen them. There are snacks (both healthy and less healthy) for the whole day.

German Legal Counsel (m/w/d) - iwoca

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 We’re looking for a German Legal Counsel 
 We are the leading and fastest growing Alternative Lender in the German market. A market that is still developing and we are there to shape it. Iwoca has established strong cooperations with the leading banks, financial advisors and platforms in Germany, like Commerzbank and eBay.
 
 However, we’re still near the start of our journey – our aim is to finance a million small businesses within a decade and so we need more smart, hands-on people to help us reach this goal.
 
 We are recruiting a German qualified lawyer on a part-time basis to primarily work with our German business and report to iwoca’s Head of Legal.
 
 About us 
 Fast, flexible finance empowers small businesses to manage their cash flow better and seize opportunities - making their business and the economy stronger as a whole. At iwoca, we do just that. We help businesses get the funds they need, when they need it, often within minutes.
 We’ve already made several billion in funding available to over 100,000 businesses since we launched in 2012, and positioned ourselves as a leading Fintech in Europe. Our mission is to finance one million businesses. We’ll get there by continuing to make our finance ever more relevant and accessible to more businesses by combining cutting-edge technology, data science and a 5-star customer service.
 
 Our culture
 We’re expanding fast across our offices in London, Leeds and Frankfurt. With all this growth, we’re looking for people who want to learn on the job and lead projects, knowing that your ideas will impact thousands of small businesses.
 
 Your mission
 <ul>
 <li> Support and advise teams across the German business, including lending propositions (product development), customer acquisition, customer success, marketing and people ops (HR).</li>
 <li> Draft, review and negotiate partnership, customer and supplier contracts by providing pragmatic and commercial support</li>
 <li> identify and implement process improvements to make legal work more efficient, including building out and maintaining templates, playbooks and decision frameworks for our partnership and customer acquisition agreements</li>
 <li> Improve and maintain the business’ policies and procedures relating to GDPR for our key stakeholders - customers, employees and partners</li>
 <li> Instruct and manage external legal counsel, and manage legal budget with the guidance of the Head of Legal and GM of Germany</li>
 <li> Support any regulatory matters relating to licensing to lend to and collect from customers in Germany, and ensure our product complies with all elements of German law.</li>
 <li> Support corporate housekeeping, management of constitutional documents and statutory books, and ongoing filing requirements across our German entities.</li>
 </ul>
 There will be opportunities for you to:
 <ul>
 <li> Advise and educate other members of the legal team on areas of your competence through formal and informal training</li>
 <li> Manage and mentor a German-speaking paralegal through tasks assigned to you</li>
 <li> Get involved more broadly with the Legal function, including in the UK and Luxembourg and any other jurisdiction in which we may operate</li>
 </ul>
 
 Requirements
 <ul>
 <li> You are an experienced lawyer, qualified in Germany</li>
 <li> You are fluent in German and English</li>
 <li> You have experience in:
 <ul>
 <li> commercial contracts, partnership and broker agreements</li>
 <li> GDPR and data protection laws, and have been involved in implementing policies and procedures to ensure compliance</li>
 <li> working in an in-house environment, particularly a fintech or finance business</li>
 </ul></li>
 <li> You are smart, meaning you:
 <ul>
 <li> use thoughtful legal analysis to quickly cut through legal and commercial complexity</li>
 <li> give concrete feedback in a way that facilitates decision-making</li>
 </ul></li>
 <li> You are motivated, meaning you:
 <ul>
 <li> go above and beyond to deliver high quality legal work in line with deadlines</li>
 <li> curious about all parts of the business and the challenges they face</li>
 </ul></li>
 <li> You are humble:
 <ul>
 <li> no ego, we’re in it together</li>
 <li> you proactively reflect on individual and team performance on a task.</li>
 <li> understand where gaps exist in legal skills and knowledge and engage external counsel where appropriate.</li>
 </ul></li>
 <li> It would be also nice if you:
 <ul>
 <li> have some knowledge and understanding of lending businesses, and the regulation applying to business lending in Germany</li>
 <li> have some experience with employment law issues</li>
 <li> have some experience of working with Luxembourg fund structures</li>
 <li> appreciate the importance of quantifying legal risk to inform decision-making</li>
 <li> are willing to work some of the time in one of our offices</li>
 <li> are interested in growing with our dynamic German business and, in the future, other countries in which we may operate</li>
 </ul></li>
 </ul>
 
 We want to make iwoca a place where everyone feels welcome, where you can confidently be yourself. We understand that inclusivity, and diversity that comes through greater inclusivity, isn't an optional add-on; it's the core ingredient of what makes us great. We care about making iwoca a healthy and happy community for all of our team members to thrive in.
 
 Our benefits
 We put a lot of effort into making iwoca a brilliant place to work:
 <ul>
 <li> A smart, motivated and international team (we represent over 35 different nationalities) with ridiculous growth-mindset</li>
 <li> iwoca takes over a ski chalet in winter so that you and your team can ski or snowboard (and work) for a week. During summer we are drawn to the sun.</li>
 <li> Access to the gym membership program</li>
 <li> Exclusive participation in the daily commute</li>
 <li> Our home is in a nice office in the heart of the big city. In Frankfurt in the beautiful Ostend, our London office is located centrally in Fitzrovia</li>
 <li> Company-wide training courses with internal and external speakers</li>
 <li> 26 days of vacation a year plus a free day for your birthday</li>
 <li> One-month fully paid sabbatical after 4 years</li>
 <li> Share options</li>
 <li> A paid volunteer day that gives you the opportunity to invest time to support a charity of your choice.</li>
 <li> ’iwocans’ also benefit from fully stocked fridges in our offices with whatever is needed to strengthen them. There are snacks (both healthy and less healthy) for the whole day.</li>
 </ul>
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