Junior Legal Counsel
Tomorrow’s banking, brought to everyone.
Bank at core, innovation at heart
Nordiska is a bank offering a complete range of financial services, allowing us to tailor solutions to each customer while simultaneously enabling them to gain access to advanced financial technology. Part of our offering is our Embedded platform, enabling enterprise partners across Europe to seamlessly integrate financial services – including saving, lending, and payments – into innovative product offerings. Additionally, we provide corporate and real estate financing, as well as sustainable savings with a government-backed deposit guarantee.
To meet future demands, we continuously scale our modern technology platform, expand partner integrations, and accelerate product innovation to help shape the future of financial services.
Working at Nordiska
Since our founding, we have been committed to driving innovation and creating meaningful impact. We work towards an ambitious vision and goals, backed up by our history of successfully delivering high-quality results and sustainable growth.
Historically and going forward, the people working at Nordiska are what enables our success. We balance our professional environment with an entrepreneurial mindset, always acting with honesty and responsibility, to build long-term trust among customers, partners and employees.
About the Role
As a Junior Legal Counsel at Nordiska, you will play an important role in supporting the bank’s continued growth and expansion. Working as part of a highly skilled legal team, you will provide practical and business-oriented legal advice across a broad range of matters, helping the organization navigate both day-to-day operations and strategic initiatives. This is an excellent opportunity for a junior lawyer who wants to gain broad exposure within a fast-growing financial services company and develop their expertise in a dynamic and entrepreneurial environment.
What You'll Do
Support the business with legal advice related to Nordiska’s lending operations and partner business.
Assist in negotiations and drafting of financing, commercial, and business agreements.
Contribute to corporate governance and company law matters across the organization.
Coordinate legal workstreams in internal projects and collaborate with external legal advisors when required.
Review, draft, and negotiate supplier agreements and other commercial contracts.
Conduct legal research and provide guidance on regulatory and operational legal matters.
Work proactively with stakeholders across the organization to identify legal risks and enable business growth.
Your Profile
You are a solution-oriented and commercially minded lawyer who enjoys finding practical ways forward while balancing legal risks with business needs. You thrive in a collaborative environment and build strong relationships with colleagues across different functions and levels of the organization. As a person, you are curious, proactive, and take ownership of your work, while continuously seeking opportunities to develop your legal expertise. You are motivated by working in a fast-paced and entrepreneurial setting, where you can combine day-to-day legal support with active involvement in business initiatives, projects, and strategic growth opportunities.
We believe that you have:
A Master of Laws degree
Up to 1–2 years of relevant professional experience from a law firm, financial institution, or in-house legal function. However, we place great value on potential and personal fit, and welcome applications from recently graduated candidates with a strong interest in commercial law and financial services.
Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements.
A solid understanding of general corporate and commercial law.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in both Swedish and English.
The ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with multiple stakeholders.
Experience within lending, banking, financial services, or regulated industries is considered a strong advantage, but is not a requirement.
Application
If you’re looking to join a growth-driven environment that pairs innovation with profitability and reliability, welcome to Nordiska. We look forward to receiving your application.
We review and interview continuously, with background checks as part of the final stage of our process. For questions about the role and or more information, you are warmly welcome to contact Lydia Cezar at lydia.cezar@nordiska.com
- Department
- Legal
- Locations
- Stockholm
Working at Nordiska
We believe financial infrastructure should be driven by technology and therefore, working at Nordiska gives every employee the opportunity to challenge the status quo and drive our customer centric approach.
Our change orientation and rapid development create a dynamic and stimulating work environment where innovation paired with ambition drive a forward-thinking mindset. There is a strong sense of collaboration, trust and warmth and we support, share knowledge and learn from one another. In our entrepreneurial environment, all employees are encouraged to take ownership, drive their role forward and solve problems.