Job Overview
Are you looking for a stimulating professional environment based on autonomy and trust?
Pennylane offers you the opportunity to grow within a rapidly expanding company.
Here, your expertise will directly help entrepreneurs regain control of their finances. Discover a place where your skills will be valued and where you can shape the future of financial management.
Our vision
Our ambition is to become the preferred financial management software for European SMEs.
We help entrepreneurs get rid of time-consuming accounting and finance tasks, while giving them access to key financial information to help them make the best decisions for their business.
At the same time, we help accounting firms, allowing them to spend less time on redundant and repetitive tasks, and more time on advising and supporting their clients.
About Pennylane
Pennylane is one of the fastest growing FinTech companies in France, and plans to soon address the European market.
In our 6 years of existence, we have managed to:- Positioning ourselves in the market as an innovative accounting and financial management solutions provider
- Raising a total of €400 million from renowned investors, including Sequoia, the leading Silicon Valley fund known for having supported Google, Facebook, Airbnb, Stripe, PayPal, and many others in their early stages
- Growing from 7 co-founders to a team of 1200 employees, with an average rating of 4.9/5 on Glassdoor and 94% of Glassdoor reviewers who would recommend PL to their friends!
- Building an international team of employees from 25 different countries, with a highly flexible remote work culture
- Gain the trust of thousands of users and get excellent feedback
- Over 1,500,000 micro-enterprises/SMEs and over 8,000 accounting firms are already using Pennylane in France!
Context of the role
Pennylane is structuring the Corporate division of its legal team to support growth in France and internationally, secure its strategic operations, and strengthen its governance. As Equity Counsel, you will play a key role at the interface between Legal, Finance, and People teams, with a central responsibility: managing our employee share ownership plans (current and future) and ensuring a reliable cap table, while also addressing key corporate issues. This position has a European scope and involves daily cross-functional interactions.
Main missions
As Equity Legal Counsel, you will manage all aspects of our employee share ownership plans (BSPCE, BSA, stock options, and more broadly, the mechanisms that will be implemented in the future) from start to finish. More specifically, you will be responsible for:
- To orchestrate the allocation of ESOPs in coordination with internal and external stakeholders, and to support the beneficiary employees;
- Managing the “post-allocation”: exercises, liquidity/secondary events, departures, international mobility, status changes, and more generally any event impacting equity, by carrying out the execution of these operations from A to Z (documentation, reverse planning, HR/Finance coordination, communication to beneficiaries);
- Ensure the daily monitoring and updating of the cap table, with a high level of requirement for accuracy, traceability and consistency of data;
- Maintain and keep corporate documentation and formalities associated with capital transactions: registers, securities movements, legal documentation and governance;
- Provide clear and responsive support to employees benefiting from options, by translating complex legal topics into operational decisions and messages;
- Provide quality support to HR teams, particularly Ops and Talent Acquisition, on equity issues;
- Contribute to continuous improvement: structure, document and optimize equity processes (standardization, automation, use of tools and AI-driven approach);
- To actively monitor regulatory developments related to employee share ownership and capital transactions, in France and Europe.
Desired profile
- You have at least 2 years of experience in corporate law, in law firms and/or companies, with significant exposure to equity issues.
- You have a solid foundation in corporate law and capital transactions (governance, documentation, formalities, coordination of transactions).
- You are familiar with the regulations applicable to employee share ownership and capital transactions (BSPCE, BSA, stock options today, and curiosity for future mechanisms), as well as the associated formalities.
- You demonstrate exemplary rigor and a great sense of organization: the reliability of the cap table and the quality of the data are non-negotiable for you.
- You are pragmatic: you know how to propose effective solutions, find the right level of security, and move issues forward with simplicity and agility.
- You like “ops” topics as much as legal ones: you have a real appetite for tooling, automation and continuous improvement (including via innovative tools and AI).
- You know how to work with multiple teams (People, Finance, TA) and you have excellent interpersonal skills: you are able to clearly explain technical legal concepts to non-legal interlocutors, with pedagogical skill.
- You have excellent communication and writing skills, in both French and English (fluent English required).
Recruitment process
- Screening interview with Nathalie, Talent Acquisition - 30 min
- Manager Interview with Claire - Corporate & Equity Counsel and Roland - Lead Legal Counsel - 60 min
- Case Study Interview avec Claire et Stanislas - Head of Legal Compliance & Risk - 60 to 80 min
- Last Round Interview avec Felix - COO et Sabrina - Associate Team Lead Accounting/ 45 min
What we can offer you
- One of the best health insurance providers on the market (Alan Blue and Alan Mind)
- Meal vouchers (Swile Card)
- Between 6 and 12 additional days of paid time off (RTT) on top of the 5 weeks of paid vacation
- A dedicated budget each month for all our Pennylaners, encouraging work from home or in a coworking space
- Easy access to our offices, located a few minutes from Saint Lazare in the heart of Paris
- A BSPCE envelope
- Access to 8,000 gyms across France and over 300 wellness activities through our partner Gymlib
- A Mac
- We practice many sports together and are keen to meet regularly around company events such as Tech Days (which allow remote Pennylaners to meet every 3 months) or our company seminar which takes place once a year, and which promotes great moments of cohesion for everyone.
To thrive at Pennylane, you will need to:
-Speak English (the level is assessed and appreciated depending on the department you are applying to)
-Enjoy working in a constantly changing environment
-Make collaboration a priority within your team or with other stakeholders
-Having sufficient perspective to prioritize high-impact business actions in one's daily activities.
We know that some people are less likely to apply than others if they feel they do not meet all the criteria.
If you're hesitating, we encourage you to apply anyway: who knows, it could be the start of a meaningful and lasting collaboration!
