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Senior Legal Counsel

Posted 28 Oct 2025
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3 to 10 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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To Make Life Easy for our users, we want to build a bank with a legal team that our users can rely on. Your mission is to increase efficiency of providing answers to users' request, while supporting bunq by building and optimizing our legal responses and processes in accordance with regulatory developments in our core countries.

Take ownership

As our Medior Legal Counsel, you will be taking ownership of:

  • Stay updated on upcoming regulations and apply them to the users’ benefit (product reviews) by finding legal solutions.
  • Handel special user circumstances and claims and disputes from third-parties, regulators or others.
  • Providing legal reviews and advice to other bunqers on different contracts and partnerships 📑

This challenge is perfect for you if

  • You bring proven skills in handling legal claims and disputes – including litigation and regulatory procedures.
  • You have deep knowledge of the Dutch legal system & financial regulation – especially in relation to regulators such as DNB and AFM.
  • You present out-of-the-box solutions, and can take on an advisory role
  • You can put the users first, and take that approach along with an innovative mindset 🖇️
  • You are in the financial sector for a while now (Knowledge of fintech services and Kifid is a big plus ⭐️)
  • You hold a masters degree in law
  • Its a plus if you speak Dutch

Your space to perform

We give you the space and the tools you need to succeed 💪🏼

  • 🤟 Great, international colleagues who share your mindset
  • 👩‍💻 Hybrid setup: after 3 months in-office, work 2 days remote, 3 days in-office weekly.
  • 🧳 Digital Nomad program: work remotely 1 week per quarter after 1 year and 3 weeks per quarter after 2 years
  • 📚 We support growth with bunq Academy and €1500 annual learning budget
  • 🚴 A massive discount with OneFit for your wellbeing (in the Netherlands)
  • 🚌 Travel expenses are covered whether you come walking or by bike, bus or car (though we prefer green choices 🌳)
  • 💻 A MacBook so you can Get Shit Done with us
  • 🥦 Delicious lunches from our fabulous in-house chefs with vegan and vegetarian options
  • 💰 An optional pension plan with monthly contribution from bunq
  • 💸 Monthly contribution to your phone and internet bills
  • 🍻 Friday drinks and other celebrations - bunq style

All new hires are subject to Pre-employment Screening (PES), which includes checks conducted by our third-party partner, DISA. This is part of our commitment to a secure and trustworthy workplace

You've heard it long and wide: innovation in the financial industry. While others have been talking about it, a core team of highly skilled enthusiasts is actually doing something about it. With the best of tech, law, finance and marketing - all with the highest possible brain power - we’ve become a breeding ground for dynamic, independent go-getters that rather do than talk. Attitude is everything: if we set our mind to it, it happens.

IT
Amsterdam
Active in 44 countries
220 employees
60% men - 40% women
Average age is 28 years