Legal & Regulatory Analyst
Possible
Sponsorship likelihood
This employer issued few or no visas recently
Not disclosed
Salary
Not disclosed by employer
£48,200
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role likely qualifies for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2482 (80% match) is an eligible occupation, with a going rate of £48,200, and Zuba is a licensed sponsor. That is our reading of the rules. Whether they issue a Certificate of Sponsorship is still their call.
This could also be SOC 2419 (Legal professionals not elsewhere classified, Legal drafting and negotiating contracts could make it a legal professional role) or SOC 2422 (Finance and investment analysts and advisers, Financial services context and payment infrastructure work could fit finance analyst). We read the code off the advert, so it is our best guess, not the employer's.
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2482 Quality assurance and regulatory professionals Most likely code | £33,800 | £38,600 | £43,400 | £48,200 |
2419 Legal professionals not elsewhere classified Also possible | £33,400 | £33,400 | £37,500 | £41,700 |
2422 Finance and investment analysts and advisers Also possible | £33,400 | £36,700 | £41,200 | £45,800 |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Abou Zuba
We’re building the global payment network for money moving into, across, and out of the world’s emerging markets: instant, transparent, and affordable, with stablecoin rails under the hood. We’re backed by multiple unicorn fintech founders and some incredible investors like EWOR, Triple A, Digital Currency Group, Entourage, and Raba.
We’re early enough that the people joining today define how this company works, and proven enough that the work is real from day one: live partners, live corridors, real money. The problems are hard, the surface area is global, and the prize is a rebuild of how money moves between the fastest-growing markets on earth.
We’re growing our team to help us shape the future of our industry together. If you see a role that could be a fit for you, please reach out to [email protected], and let’s talk!
About the role
We're looking for a Legal & Regulatory Analyst to sit at the engine room of Zuba's legal and regulatory function as we scale across new payment corridors, working directly with our Head of Legal & Regulatory. We're designing the role for the way this work actually gets done now.
Large parts of traditional legal and compliance execution are being transformed by AI. Tools like Claude can produce first-pass MSAs, review onboarding files and draft regulatory memos faster than any associate or analyst. We don't need someone to do that work manually at scale. We need someone who can build the systems that make it happen and who has the judgment to know when the output is right.
Half your job is commercial: drafting, negotiating and closing the contracts that let us move money through new corridors. The expectation is speed. When we identify a new market opportunity, legal should be able to open that corridor in a week, not a quarter. The other half is regulatory: licensing strategy, KYB operations, sanctions and blockchain screening, transaction monitoring and the controls that keep us compliant across Canadian, US, EU and African jurisdictions.
What you'll own
Three workstreams sit at the centre of this role:
- Licensing: applications and maintenance, multi-jurisdiction. Standing up and keeping live our authorisations as we grow: MSB registration and RPAA registration in Canada, CASP and payment-institution (PSD2) authorisation in the EU, and FinCEN registration plus selective state money-transmitter licensing in the US. You own the applications themselves, the regulator correspondence, and the ongoing maintenance and reporting obligations that follow approval.
- Market launch. Turning a new corridor from idea into live transaction: securing licensing and regulatory clearance with both authorities and banking partners, and papering the commercial relationships (MSAs, partner and payment-infrastructure agreements) that make the corridor operational. Launch is where legal, compliance and commercial converge, and you run all three.
- Compliance systems and controls. Designing the policies and building the operational machinery: KYB onboarding, sanctions and PEP screening, transaction monitoring, and blockchain / on-chain screening for crypto flows. You then implement and tune the tooling that runs it. Your systems become the playbook.
Why this might excite you
- Legal and regulatory from a single seat. You own both, so you see how commercial terms create regulatory exposure and how licensing constraints shape deal structure
- Speed as a design principle. Templatised agreements, automated generation, AI-assisted review. When the business finds a new corridor, your job is to open it in a day
- Build the infrastructure from scratch. Contract templates, onboarding frameworks, screening and monitoring routines and escalation processes. Your systems become the playbook
- Multi-jurisdictional from day one. Canadian MSB / RPAA, US FinCEN (and possible state MTLs), European CASP / PSD2, and a growing number of African regulatory regimes
Who you are
- You build things. When faced with a repetitive legal or compliance task, you build a template, write a script or create a workflow instead of doing it manually the tenth time
- You're fast. You can turn around a clean MSA in hours, not weeks. You know the difference between risks that need negotiating hard and risks you accept with a carve-out and move on
- You're analytically sharp. You read regulations and commercial terms and see the operational implications immediately
- You're commercially aware. Legal and compliance exist to enable the business, not block it
- You're a clear communicator. Contracts, memos, regulator responses and partner assessments are clean and don't need heavy editing
- You have relevant experience. 1-4 years in a Magic Circle or US law firm, or an in-house legal/compliance seat in a fast-paced company. Less experience is fine if you're exceptional. We’re especially interested in backgrounds like M&A, commercial contracts, financial regulatory, and payments, but are open to candidates from other disciplines.
Some topics you'll think about
- How do we get from "new corridor identified" to "first transaction live" in a week?
- What's the smartest licensing sequencing as we expand: which licences should we acquire, and where should we rely on partners?
- Where should we automate legal and compliance execution with AI, and where does human judgment remain essential?
What we offer
💸 Competitive salary + meaningful equity, and we'll show you the maths
🚀 Real ownership: your work shows up in the company's numbers within weeks
🧠 No layers: everyone works directly with the founders
🤖 The best AI tools money can buy, for everyone
🌍 Paid travel to the markets we serve
🍔 In past 8pm? Dinner and the ride home are on us
🍹 Team off-sites & regular socials
Our hiring process
We keep it fast and transparent.
- Intro chat (30 mins). An informal discussion about your experience, values and what you're looking for
- Technical case exercise. A cross-border expansion scenario covering legal, compliance, licensing and systems-design considerations
- Work trial (2 days, paid). We pay for your time. Live tasks at our Central London office: negotiating a partner agreement, building an automation, reviewing an onboarding file, drafting a regulatory memo
- Offer. If all goes well, we'll extend an offer and can't wait to welcome you aboard
This description is the source posting as it read when we added it. We are not affiliated with Zuba, so check their own site for the current details.
Where this offer sits in the market
Quality assurance and regulatory professionals (SOC 2482) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~137k in sample- Middle half £39,520–66,040
- Median £49,504
- Going rate £48,200
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £33,800–43,400
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Does this job guarantee visa sponsorship?
Not necessarily. Zuba holds a sponsor licence, but sponsorship for a specific hire is always the employer's decision. Be upfront in your application that you'll require it.
What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2482 going rate of £48,200. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.