Join us as a Legal Counsel in our Secured Lending & Financial Health & Support Legal team
This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Legal Counsel, where you’ll deliver the legal strategy and provide expert, accurate and cost-effective legal advice to our Home Ownership & Financial Health & Support businesses, and more broadly in relation to secured consumer lending matters
Your role will sit within our Retail & Private Banking Legal team, so we’ll need you to have an understanding of associated legal and regulatory issues
You’ll be recognised as a strategic thinker and an expert in your field, and you’ll be exposed to stakeholders across the bank and externally
We're offering this position for a period of 12 months
We’re looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to manage and coordinate the delivery of legal advice, supporting our Retail Banking and Private Banking & Wealth Management businesses. You’ll work closely with stakeholders and legal and regulatory colleagues to ensure the timely, effective and efficient delivery of all issues, projects and initiatives, either directly or through a team.
Additionally, you’ll be:
Making sure that legal advice is readily understandable to non-lawyers, delivered within relevant timescales, and manages and minimises legal and regulatory risks
Delivering continuous improvement in operating practices and processes, including identifying efficiencies, improvements and opportunities to reduce costs
Providing the communication of internal and external legal advice and helping to deliver transactions and projects to stakeholders in a commercial, user friendly and efficient manner
Managing legal costs through the use of e-billing, auctions and other cost tools and driving a culture of disciplined cost management and controls
To be successful in this role, you’ll need to be UK qualified and have experience of providing legal, regulatory and commercial advice in relation to transactions and projects in-house, or in a leading UK law firm. We’ll expect you to have in depth knowledge of general banking law and practice, expertise in the UK regulatory environment relating to secured consumer lending (particularly MCOB) and consumer financial regulation generally, and an understanding of the UK consumer mortgage market and the financial services industry. This will be coupled with the ability to establish and maintain strong relationships across the bank.
You’ll also need:
Knowledge of Retail & Private Banking business activities, the commercial environment within which they operate and associated legal issues
Experience of working with leading law firms and other professional advisers and consultants
The ability to keep up to date with and share relevant legal and market developments, as well as experience in delivering change from a legal or regulatory perspective
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
Job Posting Closing Date is not yet published.Ways of Working:Remote FirstSkills Required
- UK qualified lawyer
- Experience in in-house legal or leading UK law firm
- In-depth knowledge of banking law and UK regulatory issues
- Familiarity with secured consumer lending and financial regulations
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
