Fnality was born out of the need to transform clearing and settlement processes; enabling Delivery vs. Payment (DvP) in tokenised securities markets, and in the secured funding market enabling instant settlement on a Payment vs. Payment (PvP) basis.

At Fnality, the world's most talented engineers, lawyers, bankers, analysts and thought leaders are shaping the global future of financial services by driving the transformation of financial markets back to Peer-to-Peer.

A rare opportunity to help create a new organisation aimed at revolutionising the global financial services system. Backed by a large consortium of the world's leading financial institutions, this blockchain start-up will create a new foundation for financial market infrastructure.  With a successful proof of concept phase completed, now is the time to make financial services infrastructure disruption a reality.  Every capability for the new eco-system will be created from scratch. Our aim is simple, to create a highly motivated / talented team with a passion for blockchain, that can work from first principles to drive the creation of a fully operational organisation that delivers the new financial services infrastructure.

We are looking for a first-class Blockchain Legal Analyst to join the team and help us build the components and deliverables needed to establish the new organisation and achieve the overall Consortium vision.

Key Responsibilities                 

• Understand and collaboratively contribute to delivering the organisations' business strategy, outcomes and success criteria
• Fully understand the as-is solution architecture (business/technical), and create solutions that adhere to, or build on, those foundations
• Understand, support and adopt the organisations' 'Commercial Agility' methodology
• Explore all legal aspects of legacy systems vs state-of-the-art blockchain platforms
• Provide specialist Legal and regulatory input as part of the cross-skilled team, either owning related deliverables, or by helping others to do so
• Participate in collaborative team ceremonies such as sprint planning, refinement, estimating, stand-ups and retrospectives
• Be an active part of self-organising teams, with clear focus and setting realistic sprint targets / estimates
• Contribute to the success of each team sprint though shared ownership and delivery of component stories and tasks
• Adopt continuous improvement mindset, retrospect with the team to identify and action improvements to throughput and quality
• Demonstrate a multi-skilled mindset and approach, contributing to  25 asset types (definitions, processes, documents, models, diagrams, presentation materials etc)
• Collaborate with specialist outsource partners to produce high-quality deliverables, for example. law firms
• Strong focus on quality and rapid ability to change, keeping the As-Is architecture current so that it remains an accurate picture of current state
• Strong collaboration and communication applied throughout solution creation, ensuring that interrelated deliverables effective and coordinated
• Strong focus on learning and personal development to be cross skilled - maturing capability across legal, business, technical or compliance content
• Fact based, analytical and data driven thinker - applying critical reasoning skills to drive improvement

Required Experience               

• 5+ years practical experience as a lawyer or legal consultant in a relevant field (e.g. financial regulation, technology, IP, corporate, compliance) 
• Practical exposure and experience for lean / agile techniques (Scrum, KanBan etc)
• Knowledge of blockchain and its legal implications  - e.g. crypto token status,  smart contracts, settlement finality, etc.
• Experience in complex corporate/commercial transactions, consortia projects and/or technology projects
• Legal knowledge of law and regulation relating to payments and/or financial markets infrastructure. For example; Chaps, Target2, Fedwire, Sixt, Faster Payments
• Experience in onboarding towards payment platforms
• Experience in working with different legal firms to realize company goals
• Experience in working in the financial industry
• Experience of working in an innovative, disruptive, rapidly mobilising and evolving business / teams
• Strong experience of collaborative tools such as Jira and Confluence, and strong Word/Excel/PowerPoint skills
• Experience of using UML (activity, sequence etc.)/creation of diagrams to clearly document architectural solutions
• Strong knowledge and/or experience in financial services processes, systems and products

Personal Skills             

• Outcome based / big-picture thinker
• Relish and thrive in an emergent / uncertain environment to create new innovative solutions
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong team working skills and the understanding of how to create and contribute towards high performing teams
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Enthusiastic “can do” attitude, underpinned by rapid learning approach
• Ownership mentality, building solutions that work not just 'ticking a box'
• Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Professional, well presented
• Establishes effective working relationships at all levels
• Customer centric mindset and approach

Cultural Values           

• Outcome based customer focus
• Empowerment of people and teams
• Innovation & flexibility
• Agility & collaboration
• Openness & honesty
• Introspection and learning

Benefits                      

• Free coffee, great kitchen, healthy food!
• Competitive salary
• Company pension
• Central London office location, with flexible working and possibility to work remotely
• Dynamic, modern culture and working environment
• Monthly Friday company meeting with pizza and beers
• "Show and Tell" sessions - knowledge sharing across teams
• Company sponsored learning opportunities
• Once in a generation opportunity to shape a dynamic blockchain start-up on the cutting edge of fin-tech