Job Offers at Moniepoint Inc.

Job Purpose

• You are the commercial architect behind Moniepoint’s most strategic deals. As our Senior Legal Counsel for Contracts, you ensure we move fast and innovate without compromising on security or compliance.
• This role isn't just about "spotting risks"—it’s about finding creative, factual, and simple ways to help the business achieve its goals. You will lead our approach to complex technology agreements, corporate finance, and M&A, ensuring that every contract we sign reflects our mastery and protects our mission to create financial happiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Deal: Drive the drafting, negotiation, and execution of complex commercial agreements, from SaaS and licensing to payment partnerships.
• Master the Details: Provide clear, jargon-free legal guidance on contractual risk and liability. You explain the "why" behind the "what."
• Build for Scale: Create and maintain contract templates and playbooks that make our legal processes efficient and consistent across the globe.
• Protect our IP: Advise on intellectual property, licensing structures, and data protection to ensure Moniepoint’s innovations stay ours.
• Drive Growth: Lead legal support for corporate finance, including debt and equity financing, and manage the legal lifecycle of M&A and investment deals.
• Partner with Experts: Collaborate with finance, strategy, and external advisors to ensure our transactions are executed with precision.
• Operational Excellence: Monitor our contractual health, ensuring we meet our obligations and stay ahead of regulatory shifts.

Qualifications

• 8–11 years of experience in commercial law, with a focus on technology and complex contract negotiations.
• Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and a Qualifying Certificate from the Nigerian Law School.
• Demonstrated success in leading corporate finance and M&A transactions.
• A deep understanding of the fintech or banking regulatory landscape.
• Mastery in drafting documents that are clear, simple, and legally robust.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a fast-growth scale-up or global fintech environment.
• Proven ability to manage high-value transactions across multiple jurisdictions.

About You

• You’re a Master of Context: You apply systems thinking to legal problems, balancing strict compliance with business reality.
• You’re Relatable: You don’t hide behind "legalese." You speak the same language as our product and business teams.
• You have Grit: You’re comfortable with the pressure of high-stakes deals and have the momentum to see them through to the finish line.
• You’re Honest: You tell us the truth about risks, but you always bring a solution to the table.
• You’re a Creator: You enjoy building better systems, not just following old ones.

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Principal Duties And Responsibilities
Design, deploy, and support hybrid network architectures (on-prem + AWS/GCP/Azure).

• Configure and maintain BGP, OSPF, VLANs, MPLS, and IP routing.
• Manage cloud networking components – VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Cloud VPN, NAT Gateways, and equivalent services in GCP.
• Implement and manage onprem and cloud VPNs, routers, firewalls, proxies, onprem and cloud load balancers (e.g., AWS ELB/GCP Load Balancer), and secure network configurations.
• Troubleshoot complex incidents; act as Tier-3 escalation for network issues.
• Monitor performance using tools like CloudWatch, Stackdriver, SolarWinds, Nagios.
• Automate tasks using Python, Ansible, or Terraform.
• Optimize network metrics – latency, throughput, packet loss.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and internal security policies.
• Recommend upgrades and drive cost-effective network improvements (10–15% savings annually).

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise networking (on-prem and cloud).
• In-depth knowledge of routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), IPsec, VLANs, MPLS.
• Proficient with cloud networking in AWS,GCP,Azure: VPCs, VPNs, firewalls, NAT, load balancers.
• Experience with VPN solutions, firewall configurations (cloud and on-prem), and secure proxy design.
• Solid grasp of network security best practices.
• Experience in automation and scripting (Python, Ansible, Terraform).
• Familiarity with network monitoring and alerting tools.

Good to Have

• Exposure to AWS Cloud WAN, AWS Firewall Manager, and GCP equivalent services.
• Experience with zero trust network design.