Legal Counsel/Senior Legal Counsel for Transaction Banking Legal

Job ID: 3052  

We are looking for a Legal Counsel/ Senior Legal Counsel to join the Transaction Banking Legal (TxB Legal) team in Oslo, Norway.  

At Nordea, we’re committed to being a partner our customers and society can count on.

Compliance and integrity go hand in hand. Joining us means you’ll influence how we do banking – today and tomorrow.

We are looking for an innovative and curious person who constantly wants to learn and use that knowledge to support our business.

So bring your ideas, skills and unique background.

With us, you’ll be in good company with plenty of opportunities to collaborate, grow and make your mark on something bigger.    

About our team  

The TxB Legal team role is to support the everchanging world of payments and payments infrastructure, enabling Nordea to deliver worldclass technical solutions for our customers.

We also work with cash management, cards, mobile payments, and trade finance solutions.  

Our team is part of the Business Banking area and is a truly Nordic team of six highly skilled advisors based in Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Helsinki.

You will report to the Head of Transaction Banking Legal, Mikkel Skovgård Prehn, who is based in Copenhagen.  

As a Legal Counsel/ Senior Legal Counsel in Transaction Banking Legal, you will be part of Group Legal — around 300 professionals in the Nordic region, Poland and the US, including approximately 40 based in Oslo, Norway.    

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.    

What you’ll be doing  

Main responsibilities in this role:

• Serve as the single point of contact for all TxB related legal questions in Norway and act as a trusted legal advisor to the business units.  
• Find legal solutions that enable Nordea to continue developing new and innovative products and services.  
• Take ownership of assigned tasks, proactively manage deadlines and stakeholder expectations, and ensure advice is clear, aligned, and actionable.  
• Mitigate legal risk.  
• Collaborate on advocacy work, and local dispute resolution, including interactions with authorities and responses to supervisory activities.  
• Cooperate with other Group Legal units and external advisors as needed, ensuring seamless collaboration and knowledge sharing.     

Who you are   

This role is a great fit if you enjoy being proactive and taking ownership.

You have an interest in technology and payment regulation, and you want to work with a combination of Norwegian and EU regulation.

You appreciate working with your Nordic colleagues and finding common Nordic solutions.    

Your background and skills include:  

• A Norwegian master’s degree in law, with strong academic results  
• Excellent language skills in Norwegian and English  
• At least five years of relevant experience from a law firm, financial institution, fintech or public authority  
• Solid experience with payment regulation and financial law  Ability and passion for finding solutions to complex problems  
• Proven ability to work proactively and independently  Interest in new technology and a positive attitude toward change  
• A real desire to embed the use of AI in your daily work  Strong ability to prioritize competing demands and work under pressure  
• Good business understanding and strong stakeholdermanagement skills

It would be ideal if you also:  

• Have experience with cash management and finance solutions  

What we offer   

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.    

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.    

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.    

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one.

We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together.

Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.  

If this sounds like you, get in touch! 

Next steps

​Submit your application no later than 23/03/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Mikkel Skovgård Prehn at mikkel.skovgard.prehn@nordea.com.

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.