Legal Counsel

At Riverty, we believe that everyone should be in control of their own financial situation. Our shared commitment is to make financial solutions more innovative, empathetic and user-friendly to empower financial growth for everyone. To do this, we rely on 50 years of experience and the commitment of over 5,000 creative minds, innovators and explorers in 11 countries.

Are you ready?

As part of our community, you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and transform the world of finance together with us. We create an environment where you can evolve personally and benefit from our flexible working conditions and work-life balance.

Everything we do, starts with you. Together with you, we build the most human-centric fintech. To enable everyone’s future financial growth. 

We are looking for a 

Legal Counsel

(unlimited, full-time) Join our team at our location in Helsinki, or Turku, to build the next generation fintech.
Flexible working conditions are available.

Are you comfortable working with people from different countries, and are you looking for new challenges in your legal career in an international organization? Can you multitask without losing your overview, and do you like a dynamic work environment with a lot of different legal topics to advise on? Then you might be our new colleague!

About the role

As a Legal Counsel, you play a key role in supporting Riverty’s business and the entire company in various legal affairs. The entire Riverty legal community consists of about 25+ lawyers with whom you will have regular interactions. The work will also entail close contact with other functions such as Product, Sales, Compliance, Finance, Account & Client Management and Operations. Riverty 's organizational culture is international and low-hierarchical, prioritizing cooperation and open team interaction, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.

In this role, you will join our team of lawyers from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands and report to our General Counsel for RBIF Nordics & Benelux (business unit Collection). Your role in our debt collection and debt purchase business is central. Your primary responsibility will be to support our business in Finland, a role that is crucial to our operations in this region.

What will be your challenge:

In this role, you will be involved in client and supplier matters and drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements, set-ups, and other legal documents. You will be actively in contact with district courts, draft statements and, if necessary, represent companies in different courts. Through the evaluation of settlement options and arranging settlement negotiations, you will be able to develop in dispute resolution and work comprehensively on key legal issues in the company’s industry. You will also be able to take responsibility for the company’s internal legal training and actively participate in developing the legal function. The role includes intermittent travel in the Nordics and occasionally to other countries.

Your tasks will include the following:

• Provide legal support and advice on a wide variety of topics, particularly in debt collection, consumer law, business law and contract law
• Litigate disputes before the courts
• Play a pivotal role in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating client contracts, supplier agreements, and other pertinent internal and external contracts and legal documents
• Support a wide range of internal stakeholders and act as a sparring partner to the international Legal team
• Represent the organization in matters involving supervisory authorities
• Monitor upcoming legislation and advise the organization on the potential impact on business

What will help you to succeed in the role:

• A master's degree in law and 2-5 years of hands-on experience
• Experience in debt collection, debt purchase, consumer protection law, and contract law
• Trial Counsel License (Oikeudenkäyntiavustajalupa)
• Well-developed legal, drafting and advisory skills
• Analytical, determined, result-oriented, and self-motivated personality
• Ability to work independently, able to handle a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Good communication skills, able to explain complex topics simply, a commitment to work and commercial thinking
• Fluency in English and Finnish