Law Clerk
Interac
Law Clerk
At Interac, we empower Canadians to control their money and enhance their lives. We lead real-time money movement, drive innovative commerce solutions, and advance areas like verification and open banking, shaping the future of Canada’s digital economy.
Want to make a lasting impact amongst a community of creative thinkers, problem solvers, and high-performance application developers? We want to hear from you.
Role Overview:
As a Law Clerk/Paralegal at Interac Corp., you will play a crucial role in implementing new processes and documentation, managing legal, compliance, and regulatory (LCR) matters, and providing training. You will also manage inter-team interactions between LCR and our internal business teams, ensuring that business processes and frameworks run properly and smoothly.
We seek a talented individual with expertise in legal, compliance, and financial regulatory processes. You will support our business practices by providing practical and actionable assistance on a broad range of LCR matters. Additionally, you will be involved in corporate governance, general LCR, and overseeing various legal and regulatory functions.
In this role, you will work collaboratively with a close-knit team of sharp, solution-oriented professionals on projects that challenge you to balance operational efficiency with the core business values, risk tolerance, and enterprise strategy of a renowned financial services organization.
You’ll be responsible for:
Working in a fast-paced business and technology environment, partnering with business units, and playing a key role in driving the company’s products and services forward.
Implementing new processes, documentation and tools to streamline LCR intake and interactions with the business teams.
Managing LCR intake to ensure timely and accurate processing.
Providing training to internal teams to improve inter-team interactions.
Drafting, reviewing, and managing a variety of documents, including internal policy documents, and customized workflows.
Collaborating with internal stakeholders to develop and implement strategies that align with business goals.
Exercising business judgment to deliver practical and pragmatic solutions to issues with inter-team processes and interactions, as well as legal, compliance and regulatory processes.
Acting as a resource for precedent development and organization.
Understanding our technology for intake, e-billing and contracts, and managing any updates to our workflows in the various tools.
Identify, propose, and implement tools to enhance efficiency, reduce friction, and streamline processes for stakeholders and participants.
Creating and managing customized reports and dashboards on key metrics.
Oversee and coordinate LCR’s involvement on the production order process, ensuring timely collaboration across departments.
Managing corporate records and overseeing some trademark licensing.
Handling corporate filings with regulatory bodies.
You bring:
A Paralegal or Law Clerk diploma or equivalent certification.
Eligibility to work for Interac Corp. in Canada in a full-time capacity.
3-5 years of practical experience in a corporate legal department or law firm.
Prior experience in legal processes, compliance, and regulatory matters.
Strong knowledge of corporate governance and commercial law.
Experience with financial services technologies, including mobile payments, digital banking, digital identification, verification and authentication, and other electronic payments technologies (preferred).
A team player mindset, ready and willing to take on a variety of responsibilities and roles that support the team, department, and organization.
Critical thinking with cogent analysis of legal and business issues.
Proactivity with time management and project prioritization.
A keen interest in the products, services, and interdependencies at Interac and in the payments ecosystem.
Interac requires employees to complete a background check that is completed by one of our service providers. We use this service to complete the following checks:
- Canadian criminal record check;
- Public safety verification;
- Canadian ID cross-check;
- 5-year employment verification;
- Education verification; and
- If applicable, Credit Inquiry and Social Media Check
How we work
We know that exceptional people have great ideas and are passionate about their work. Our culture encourages excellence and actively rewards contributions with:
Connection: You’re surrounded by talented people every day who are driven by their passion of a common goal.
Core Values: They define us. Living them helps us be the best at what we do.
Compensation & Benefits: Pay is driven by individual and corporate performance and we provide a multitude of benefits and perks.
Education: To ensure you are the best at what you do we invest in you
Please be aware of certain individuals fraudulently using Interac Corp.’s name and logo to offer fictitious employment opportunities. Interac Corp. will never ask, solicit, nor accept any monies in exchange for employment opportunities. Any such offers of employment are fraudulent and invalid, and you are strongly advised to exercise great caution and disregard such offers and invitations.
Please note that under no circumstances shall Interac Corp. be held liable or responsible for any claims, losses, damages, expenses, or other inconveniences resulting from or in any way connected to the actions of individuals performing such fraud. Further, such fraudulent communication shall not be treated as any kind of offer or representation by Interac Corp. or its subsidiaries and affiliates.