Backed by Y Combinator.
About the role
As a Senior Legal Counsel at Wave, you will play a key role in supporting our Legal Team in Mali and contributing to the company’s growth and compliance objectives. You will work closely with both operational and functional teams to help them achieve their goals while proactively identifying, assessing, and managing legal risks to ensure full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
What they're looking for
- Master’s degree in Law or equivalent
- 5–7 years of professional legal experience, ideally within a dynamic corporate or regulatory environment
- Fluency in both written and spoken French and English
- Proven experience in corporate governance, including planning and preparing for board and shareholder meetings
- Strong knowledge of general legal and regulatory requirements applicable to corporate and commercial activities
- Efficiently and quickly apply instructions from your lead, and proactively identify and report problems or blockers
More about this role
We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across 9 countries and are growing fast.
Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...
As a Senior Legal Counsel at Wave, you will play a key role in supporting our Legal Team in Mali and contributing to the company’s growth and compliance objectives.
You will work closely with both operational and functional...
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