Legal Counsel of Global Payments and Global Trade Solutions

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of

Legal Counsel of Global Payments and Trade Solutions

Role purpose

• Provide practical and business-oriented legal advice across domestic and international payments and trade finance products and transactions, ensuring alignment with applicable legal, regulatory requirements and internal policies.
• Draft, review, and negotiate contracts and transactional documentation identifying legal and regulatory risks and supporting effective business solutions.
• Improve legal processes documentation and procedures through standardization, simplification, and automation to strengthen efficiency and consistency.
• Anticipate legal and regulatory challenges and work closely with the business and key stakeholders to enable objectives while managing legal risk.

What will you do

• Advise Global Payments Solutions (GPS) and Global Trade Solutions (GTS) on the legal and regulatory aspects of payment products, trade finance services, and related operational processes.
• Support the legal structuring and implementation of products services and transactions including updating templates documentation and procedures, in line with regulation, internal policies and business requirements.
• Partner with Compliance Financial Crime, Regulatory Compliance, Tax Finance Operations, other Legal teams, and external counsel, to drive issues through resolution and support cross-functional delivery.
• Analyze design and monitor legal processes, procedures and controls, including tracking and follow-up mechanisms to ensure matters are managed from initiation through closure.
• Conduct rigorous legal research and analysis on complex questions assessing alternative interpretations and providing well-founded recommendations within the Bank’s risk appetite.
• Drive continuous improvement by constructively challenging established practices and proposing practical enhancements that strengthen the legal control framework.
• Use approved AI tools responsibly to improve legal research documentation and processes, while maintaining independent legal judgment confidentiality and governance.

What you will need to succeed

• Qualified attorney with experience providing legal support to banking / financial business and product development departments.
• Knowledge of banking, corporate, commercial, and civil laws, and regulations, including Banco de México´s and CNBV´s payment and ICC regulations.
• Familiarity with payments infrastructure and participants (including credit institutions, regulated entities, and payments systems, among others).
• Strong transactional capability including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements for financial products, payment services and financial transactions, with a focus on identifying and mitigating legal and regulatory risk.
• Comfort adopting approved technology and AI tools with appropriate governance.
• Ability to work under pressure, negotiate, solve problems, exercise sound business judgment, work as part of a team and maintain a high level of organization.
• Fluent in Spanish and English (mandatory).
• Preferred:      

- experience in trade finance, including commercial and standby letters of credit guarantees, import and export financing, receivables financing and factoring.

-strong independent research, analysis capability and experience improving processes and controls through simplification, standardization, and automation.

-Master’s degree in financial law or postgraduate studies abroad.

 HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.