[Hiring] Legal & Compliance Associate @HoneyCoin

Role Description

Honeycoin is hiring a mid-level Legal & Compliance Associate to own document review and regulatory work for our Cameroon business. You will review and negotiate NDAs, commercial contracts, and regulatory documents in French and English, and turn them around fast enough that deals and licence applications never wait on legal.

This role is dedicated to Cameroon, where contracts, regulator correspondence, and partner negotiations happen in both French and English.

• Level: Mid-level (roughly 3–6 years' experience)
• Team: Legal, Licensing & Market Expansion
• Location: Douala, Cameroon. Some travel
• Languages: French and English, both at professional written and spoken level

Qualifications

• A law degree; admission to the bar or an equivalent professional qualification is welcome but not required.
• Roughly 3–6 years reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts, in a law firm, in-house or in a compliance function.
• Excellent French and English, written and spoken. You can redline a contract, write to a regulator and run a negotiation call in either language.
• Sound commercial judgement: you separate real risk from noise and say which points are worth fighting for.
• Clear, short writing. You can summarise a 40-page agreement in five lines a non-lawyer can act on.
• Working knowledge of Cameroonian law, across both its civil-law and common-law systems.

Requirements

• You own outcomes, not tasks. "I sent the email" is not done; the signed contract or the lodged application is done.
• You move without being chased. You set your own deadlines, report status before anyone asks, and name blockers and who is causing them.
• You find a way. When a regulator goes quiet or counsel is slow, you call, escalate, visit or find another route.
• You learn fast. You have taken on an area of law or a market you did not know and become useful in it within weeks.
• You are reliable. People trust your review enough to sign on it.

Benefits

• In your application, show us: something you started without being asked, a problem you solved that was not your job, or a result you delivered with little guidance. Be specific about what you did and what changed.

A big plus

• Experience in fintech, payments, mobile money, banking or digital assets.
• Hands-on work with payment or e-money licensing, or direct dealings with BEAC, COBAC or the Ministry of Finance.
• Knowledge of OHADA company and commercial law.
• Experience with AML/CFT, data protection or sanctions compliance.
• Experience managing external counsel.