# Senior Legal Counsel

**Company**: Neo
**Location**: Calgary, AB
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Neo is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join its team in Calgary, AB. This is a unique opportunity to support a broad range of practice areas including Neo's corporate, commercial, regulatory, employment, and privacy matters.

### Responsibilities

- Provide practical, clear, and accurate legal advice on a broad range of practice areas including corporate/commercial, regulatory, employment, and privacy matters

- Independently structure, draft, negotiate, and review financing, partnership, and customer-facing agreements, including identifying legal and business risks and collaborating with business and other lawyers on solutions to commercial and legal problems

- Anticipate, elucidate, and address legal issues to protect the interests of Neo and reduce exposure to legal risks

- Draft internal policies and guidelines to ensure compliance with legal requirements

- Support legal updates to all customer-facing disclosures and agreements

- Develop and maintain form agreements, contract management systems, and other databases

- Develop and implement processes for efficient and streamlined operations surrounding contract negotiation

- Conduct legal research and provide concise and fit-for-purpose legal advice to internal stakeholders, in a timely manner

- Manage external legal counsel, as required

### Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree in Law (L.L.B) or Juris Doctor (J.D.)

- A member of, or eligible for membership in, the Law Society of Alberta

- A minimum of 10 years experience in either private practice or in-house with experience in one or more of the following practice areas: banking/financial services, financial services regulatory, corporate/commercial, real estate financing, consumer protection, employment, and/or privacy law

- Preference may be given to candidates with experience in the banking, fintech, or financial services sectors or other highly regulated industry sectors, and/or those with in-house legal experience

- Proven ability to think strategically and provide business units with concise analysis and recommendations

- Excellent interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with others, lawyers, and non-lawyers alike

- Strong organization and time management skills and the ability to meet short deadlines

### Total Rewards

- Salary: Competitive, market-leading salary aligned with market ranges, along with the flexibility to tailor your mix of cash and equity to match your longer-term goals

- Equity Ownership (Where Eligible): Opportunity to share directly in Neo's momentum and meaningful long-term wealth-building potential tied to its success

- Short-term incentive plans (STIP)

- Flexible health benefits and life insurance

- 21 Days PTO + stat holidays, and personal leave

- Health and personal spending accounts

- Discounts through partner network

- Access to early use of products and discounts on fixed-term Neo mortgages

- Parental top-up and equity vesting during long-term leave

## Skills

### Required
- Law
- Corporate
- Commercial
- Regulatory
- Employment
- Privacy

### Nice to have
- Banking
- Fintech
- Financial Services

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