Legal Associate

🌍 PagoNxt Payments | ✨ Your talent drives our future

PagoNxt Payments is Santander Group’s global payments platform, focused on providing tailored financial infrastructure for companies, banks, and fintechs — both inside and outside the Santander ecosystem. 

With operations in over 10 countries, our mission is clear: to simplify payments and empower businesses through secure, flexible, data-driven technology. 

We operate on a cloud-native architecture designed to scale and adapt to the needs of global organizations. Our platform supports international transactions, FX, multi-currency accounts, regulatory compliance, and fraud prevention — all under a unified approach. 

PagoNxt Payments combines the agility of a fintech with the reliability of a global bank. With teams across Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, the UK, and Germany, we are building the future of payments at global scale. 

✨ If you want to be part of the next generation of financial solutions — this is the place. Imagine your future. Care for your career. Simplify your journey. 

This means you’ll have the opportunity to build impactful solutions, grow with real development opportunities, and thrive in a culture that values well-being, inclusion, and clarity. 
We combine flexibility, autonomy, and global collaboration — so you can focus on what matters, connect with purpose, and shape what’s next. 
 

You’ll find space to grow, real opportunities to lead, and a culture where everyone belongs and contributes. Are you ready to be a Nxter? 

📌 What you’ll do

You will be providing legal advice to two very fast growing and exciting businesses within PagoNxt Payments: Payments Hub (a global, cloud-native payments processing platform) and SWIFT service bureau (global SWIFT messages processor). These two businesses provide critical payments processing and technology services to financial entities around the globe

✅ What we’re looking for

The Legal team is at the heart of PagoNxt Payments, being a truly integral part of the business. Our goal is to be the best partner for the business by being proactive, adding value and delivering high quality, commercially-focused, legal support. We are a fantastic and ambitious team, supporting the business and other PagoNxt Payments teams to achieve our goals every day.

What will you be doing?

• Drafting and negotiating IT contracts with suppliers, including advice on commercial, IT, IP and data protection aspects.


• Drafting and negotiating critical outsourcing service contracts with financial services customers, including advice on commercial, IT, IP and data protection aspects.


• Working with product and commercial teams to design and deliver solutions that meet customer and market expectations and are compliant with regulations.


• Contributing to the legal strategy of the company and horizon scanning.


• Handling high profile and complex legal matters with short turnaround times

✅Key Requirements

• 6 years of experience


• Law Degree


• C1 English


• Excellent academic credentials.


• Strong experience advising on IT, IP and data protection law.


• Strong experience of financial services regulation, including EBA guidelines on outsourcing, DORA and cybersecurity regulations.


• Sound judgement, ability to think and operate under pressure and work collaboratively.

🎯 What we offer

🩺 Medical insurance
🦷 Dental insurance
💪 Wellhub
🚑 Life insurance
💉 Annual healthcare
🚌 Transportation allowance
🍕 Meal voucher/food voucher
💰 Annual bonus
📚 Access to self-development programmes
🏢 Hybrid Collaborative environment: Successful candidate must be prepared to work 60% on site

📬 Next step

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