# Senior Counsel

**Company**: Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
**Location**: Toronto, Ontario
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

As a Senior Counsel, you will support the goals of the Assistant General Counsel, Global Technology & Trusts and Managing Counsel, Platforms, in achieving the strategic priorities and operational performance goals of the Law Group.

You will provide legal advice to the enterprise payments team on a broad range of legal and regulatory matters relating to payment initiatives across RBC, and advice to support RBCx and its Portfolio Companies – MyDoh, Dr.Bill, Ownr and Houseful.

**Responsibilities:**

- Work collaboratively with colleagues in the Platforms legal team and act as senior legal advisor on enterprise payments initiatives across all business lines

- Provide legal advice in connection with Payments Canada’s modernization program, including the development of the new high value system (Lynx) and real-time rail (RTR) and legal framework governing these systems

- Provide advice on various matters including advice on mergers and acquisitions, new and amended product development, and related compliance and negotiation of client agreements and governance matters

- Support Open Banking advocacy and industry work

- Advise the business on strategic initiatives in new and emerging areas that involve payments and merchant acquiring

- Provide legal advice on new technologies and strategic initiatives for RBCx

- Identify, assess and manage legal risks in an evolving and fast-paced environment

**Requirements:**

- At least 5 years of relevant experience at a large law firm or in-house role

- JD/ Bachelor of Law (Common or Civil Law) from a recognized law school and member of the Bar in any Canadian Province or Territory

- Experience analyzing legislation and interpreting requirements for businesses to operationalize

- Excellent communication, negotiation and drafting skills

- Strong problem-solving and risk assessment skills, comfortable managing competing priorities and complex matters, ability to work autonomously and make independent decisions.

**Nice-to-have:**

- Experience in advocacy efforts, working with industry groups, and providing legal services relating to the payments ecosystem in Canada

- Deep knowledge of enterprise businesses and functions, including technology, application and product development

- Experience facilitating alignment between legal advice and business strategic priorities in complex regulatory environments

- Experience in providing legal services relating to the payments ecosystem in Canada and tech start-ups.

**What's in it for you?**

- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team

- A world-class training program in financial services

- Flexible work/life balance options

- Opportunities to do challenging work

- Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities

## Skills

### Required
- Legal Practices
- Financial Regulation
- High Impact Communication
- Decision Making
- Group Problem Solving

### Nice to have
- Business Perspective
- Coaching Others
- Customer Service Management
- Time Management

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