Join us as a Legal Counsel
- This is a great opportunity to join a collaborative and supportive legal team to deliver our legal strategy
- You'll gain significant exposure across all our franchises and build key relationships with stakeholders and committees, build on your existing experience and increase your exposure across the bank
- This role offers the advantage of a varied and extensive breadth of work, including working on market leading transactions, strategic projects and implementing new legislation and regulation
What you'll do
You’ll be working with the front office and legal colleagues to make sure all issues, projects and initiatives are delivered efficiently. You'll also deliver and help coordinate expert, accurate and cost-effective legal advice, either directly or through external law firms, principally to NatWest Markets’ Investor Backed (Subscription Line) and Asset Backed (NAV Line) Funds Finance teams. You'll make sure that your advice is accurate, readily understandable to non-lawyers, delivered at the right time, and remains commercial while minimising legal risks.
Day to day, you’ll be:
- Managing and coordinating high value and product specific legal advice, support and strategy to our financing and risk transformation businesses, in particular helping to arrange transactions for the bank's customers
- Delivering continuous improvement in the operating practices and processes, including identifying efficiencies, improvements and opportunities to reduce costs
- Managing the communication of internal and external legal advice and providing input on 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
The skills you'll need
To join us in this role, you’ll need to be a qualified solicitor or barrister with substantial demonstrable experience of providing legal and commercial advice on funds finance transactions. You’ll be able to draw on your funds finance experience either in financial services, with a law firm or other professional services advisers.
We’ll also be looking for you to demonstrate:
- In depth knowledge of general banking and finance practices, and of the principal regulatory and legal framework within the banking industry
- Knowledge or experience of structured financial activities which may include repo and other securities financing and risk transformation transactions
- The ability to build rapport and establish strong relationships, especially with senior colleagues
- Good commercial awareness and analytical skills
- A motivation to learn and gain knowledge of other structured finance and capital management transactions
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
01/04/2025
Ways of Working:Hybrid
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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.
