Finance Counsel
About Wayflyer
Today's small businesses need a capital provider that keeps pace with their growth ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome and often out of reach. That's why we built Wayflyer.
Our technology allows us to assess businesses in minutes, generate financing offers that reflect their growth potential and send funds in as little as 24 hours. To date, we've deployed over $6bn to thousands of businesses worldwide, backed by Tier 1 banks like J.P. Morgan.
You'll be collaborating with ambitious colleagues from around the world. We have offices in Dublin, London, New York, Charlotte, Berlin and Sydney.
The challenge
Wayflyer moves fast and the legal infrastructure that supports how we fund ourselves and serve our merchants has to move with it. We need a finance lawyer who can hold the complexity of our debt facilities and lending products in one hand, and the needs of our commercial teams in the other. This isn't a role for someone who wants to sit behind a wall of disclaimers. It's for someone who wants to be in the room where decisions get made.
What you'll actually do
- You'll be the primary legal voice on everything touching our external funding, implementing and maintaining debt facilities, working through intercreditor arrangements, and making sure our capital markets activity is properly supported end to end.
- You'll work alongside our business teams on our core lending and merchant cash advance products, fielding queries from across our geographies and making sure the answers are actually useful to the people asking them.
- You'll own our contractual templates and playbook, keeping them current, making them sharper, and rebuilding them when the business has grown past what they were designed for.
- When we're launching new products or enhancing existing ones, you'll be the person stress-testing the legal side before we go live. And you'll manage local counsel across jurisdictions, which means knowing when to de...