We are seeking a pragmatic Head of Legal & Compliance to lead the legal and trust function of our international brokerage. The role oversees legal and compliance matters across the business, ensuring that partnerships, commercial activities, and internal processes remain legally sound and compliant. You will work closely with the CEO and departments such as Payments, Finance, Business Development, and Marketing, providing legal guidance, assessing compliance risks, and supporting growth across multiple jurisdictions. This role offers the opportunity to build and lead the Legal & Compliance function as the company scales.
Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee all legal and compliance matters across the company, ensuring legally sound and compliant business operations.
- Provide legal guidance to senior management on business decisions, partnerships, and operational risks.
- Oversee drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements with PSPs, banks, liquidity providers, and other partners.
- Maintain key legal documentation: Terms & Conditions, partner agreements, internal policies.
- Assess legal implications of new products, marketing initiatives, and partnership models across jurisdictions.
- Support relationships with banks, PSPs, and financial partners from legal and compliance perspective, including due diligence and contract negotiations.
- Coordinate external law firms and legal advisors across jurisdictions.
- Build and structure the internal Legal & Compliance function: processes, documentation standards, team structure.
- Hire and develop the Legal & Compliance team as the company scales.
Requirements
- Russian speaking, English for daily business communication.
- Law degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s).
- 5+ years in legal or compliance roles within CFD brokerage.
- Strong understanding of commercial agreements, corporate structuring, and regulatory frameworks, experience with PSPs, banks, and financial institutions.
- Ability to assess legal and regulatory risks and provide pragmatic business solutions.
- Experience working with regulators, external law firms, and commercial partners.
- Strong communication and negotiation skills; ability to work independently and own the legal & compliance function.
Benefits
- Competitive and attractive compensation
- Hybrid work schedule
- Working permit for non-EU
- Proper rest time of 24 annual leave days
- Challenging and unique tasks in the FinTech field
- Funding for gym memberships, fostering a healthy work-life balance
Interview Stages
- HR Interview (60 minutes)
- Interview with Hiring Manager (90 minutes)
- Final Interview (optional)
About Versus Trade
Versus Trade is a CFD trading company of like-minded people who are seeking to change the way the world trades. After spending more than 15 years in trading and brokerage, we asked ourselves a question: Why is everything so regular? So we decided to create revolutionary tools that break down barriers in trading worldwide. With passion as our guide, we venture into uncharted territory, exploring new frontiers, challenging norms, and pushing boundaries further than ever before. Our vision is to have a journey to reinvent trading mechanics and to offer unlimited trading perspectives. We want people to trade cross-asset, cross-market, and even cross-event!
We seek companions who are:
- Passionate about working in finance
- Ambitious to do great things
- Attentive to the very detail of the subject
- Bold enough to build different
- Enthusiastic along the way
- Ready to make a lasting impact
Sounds like you? Join the Versus Trade Team!
