Who we are
At R2, we believe that small and medium businesses are the productive engine of society. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) make up over 90% of companies in Latin America, yet they face a trillion-dollar credit gap. Our mission is to unlock SMBs’ potential by providing financial solutions that are tailored to their needs. We are reimagining the financial infrastructure of Latin America - where SMBs financial needs are satisfied without ever having to go to a bank.
R2 enables platforms in Latin America to embed financial services that SMBs can then leverage (starting with revenue-based financing and buy now pay later for business customers). We are a tight knit team coming from organizations such as Google, Nubank, Uber, McKinsey & Co., Mercado Libre, Globant, J.P. Morgan, Clip, and Ualá. We are backed by world-class investors such as Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI-focused fund), General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Femsa Ventures, PayU, among others.
As a Compliance & Legal Lead, you will be focused on performing the KYC of our clients, implementing the AML regulation, and working with the business, operational, and technology areas. We are looking for a person with an experienced and highly motivated leadership profile, whose main purpose is to ensure compliance with the commercial strategy, make the business more productive and profitable, and contribute to the company's results. The Compliance & Legal area is a full-service in-house legal department responsible for a wide range of legal and compliance duties. By using our knowledge of R2´s business and its corporate culture, the Compliance & Legal Team proactively assesses and manages risks and deals with the legal matters R2 confronts. Members of the Compliance & Legal Team deal, to a great extent, with the preparation and negotiation of commercial contracts, Partnership Agreements, Credit Contracts, Data Privacy documents, corporate documentation, trademark registration, regulatory risk management, Anti-Money Laundering (AML), ethics and conduct, among others.
What you’ll work on
- Contribute to consolidating the R2 Compliance Management System: ethics & conduct, AML, anti-bribery & anti-corruption, data protection, consumer protection, and regulatory compliance
- Analyze AML regulation in different Latam countries
- Carry out the KYC of our clients prior to the granting of financing
- Detect risky customers by evaluating the customers’ risk profiles and processing them accordingly (enhanced due diligence, customer due diligence, etc.)
- Conduct research on corporate legal and compliance issues in LatAm
- Involvement in the implementation of the regulatory framework that will contribute to R2´s Latam growth plan
- Analyze the transactional alerts to identify suspicious situations.
- Provide support to the Head of the Compliance & Legal team.
- Interface with internal and external teams to provide legal advice and subject matter expertise, as needed.
- Draft and review contracts and legal documents (Partnership agreements, Credit Contracts, Data Privacy documents, NDAs, LOIs, among others).
- Draft, review, and legal advice to corporate documentation.
- Trademark registration and follow up
- Give training related to compliance topics to the R2 team.
- Prepare a matrix of regulatory obligations and conduct a regulatory risk management
- Ensure compliance with regulatory obligations applicable to a SOFOM before CNBV and CONDUSEF, in terms of AML, reporting, and protection of the user of financial services, among others
Who you are
- Mexican lawyer
- 5 + years of relevant experience
- Extensive knowledge of SOFOMES, financial and corporate law, AML regulations, data protection law, risks, and appropriate controls
- Ability to work with regional and global partners, and influence and lead people across culture and senior level
- Ability to advise business teams on standard legal questions and legal risks
- Great people skills - good listener, enjoys engaging in discussions with people from different backgrounds
- Able to give and receive constructive feedback
- Creative problem solver
- Analytical, and multi-tasking skills
- Ability to breakdown a complex legal or compliance problem and explain it very simply
- Stellar written and oral communication skills in Spanish and English
- Motivated self-starter, with a bias for action, who thrives in a hyper-growth environment
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