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

Senior Legal Counsel Product Governance

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 and regulatory requirements.
- 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 standardisation 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'll you do

- Advise General 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.
- Analyse 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'll need to succeed

- Qualified attorney with at least 3 years of experience providing legal support to business and product development departments.
- Knowledge of banking law procedural law corporate law foreign trade factoring negotiable instruments obligations and banking regulations.
- Experience advising on regulatory contractual and operational aspects of domestic and international payment solutions gained in banks financial institutions fintechs payment service providers aggregators or law firms.
- Knowledge of Banco de México and CNBV regulation including payment clearing and settlement and the roles of participants in the payments ecosystem.
- Familiarity with payments infrastructure and participants including credit institutions regulated entities IFPEs SOFIPOs SOFOMes payment system administrators processors aggregators fintech service providers and SPEI CoDi DiMo and QR payments.




- 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.
- Ability to work under pressure negotiate solve problems exercise sound business judgment work as part of a team and maintain a high level of organisation.
- 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.
- Preferred: strong independent research and analysis capability and experience improving processes and controls through simplification standardisation and automation.
- Preferred: comfort adopting approved technology and AI tools with appropriate governance.
- Preferred: 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.

📌 Legal Counsel (Ciudad de México)
🏢 Hsbc
📍 Ciudad de México