Legal & Compliance Expert

Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation. More than 50,000 leading and fast-growing businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the region’s fastest-growing company. We’re passionate about helping every company we work with become more effective—and, through that, raising the region’s competitiveness. We’re ~400 people, backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others.

What you'll do

We're looking for a Legal & Compliance Expert to strengthen Clara’s capabilities in Brazil. This is a high-impact, highly operational individual contributor role designed for professionals with solid experience in Corporate Legal, Regulatory Compliance, or both. Whether your expertise leans toward corporate law or compliance, you will own complex matters end-to-end, influence cross-functional stakeholders, and help build scalable processes supported by AI to enable Clara to grow responsibly.

Depending on your primary area of specialization, your responsibilities will include:

• Lead key corporate legal, corporate governance, or regulatory compliance matters related to Clara’s operations in Brazil.

• Manage corporate records, resolutions, powers of attorney, statutory filings, capital changes, and intercompany arrangements.

• Draft, review, and negotiate strategic commercial, technology, vendor, confidentiality, and partnership agreements.

• Monitor regulatory developments and translate applicable requirements into actionable policies, procedures, controls, and implementation plans.

• Lead or execute AML/CFT, KYC/KYB, and enhanced due diligence activities related to complex corporate structures, Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs), PEPs, sanctions, and adverse media.

• Analyze higher-risk cases and present fully documented recommendations for approval, remediation, rejection, or escalation.

• Support external audits, regulatory interactions, internal reviews, and remediation plans.

• Lead or support privacy and data protection initiatives, including the practical application of LGPD across new products and operational processes.

• Contribute to the ESG Compliance agenda, including governance, policies, risk assessments, regulatory obligations, and reporting controls.

• Act as a strategic advisor to Product, Operations, Finance, People, Sales, Risk, Fraud, Engineering, and Data teams (communicating effectively via and other channels), balancing business objectives with legal and regulatory risks.