Legal & Compliance Expert - São Paulo (Hybrid)

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Clara is the fastest-growing company in Latin America. We've built the leading solution for companies to make and manage all their payments. We already help over 20,000 large and growing businesses operate with agility and financial clarity through locally issued corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and a powerful B2B platform built for scale.

Clara is backed by some of the most successful investors in the world, including top regional VCs like monashees, Kaszek, and Canary, and leading global funds like Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, SV Angel, Citius, Endeavor Catalyst, and Goldman Sachs - in addition to dozens of angel investors and local family offices.

We’re building the financial infrastructure that powers high-performing organizations across the region. We invite you to join us if you want to be part of a fast-paced environment that will accelerate your career and support you to do some of the best work of your life alongside a passionate and committed team distributed across the Americas.

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 Slack and other channels), balancing business objectives with legal and