Join us as a Managing Legal Counsel
- This is a rare opportunity to step into a senior legal role within one of the UK’s leading Private Banking and Wealth Management businesses
- You’ll support Coutts & Co at a pivotal point in its growth journey, shaping legal decisions in a period of strategic expansion and integration
- You’ll take on a high-profile role, partnering closely with senior leaders and influencing decisions in a complex, regulated environment
- We're offering this role for a period of 12 months
As our Managing Legal Counsel, you’ll lead on high-quality, varied legal work, partnering with senior stakeholders within a collaborative, commercially focused legal team. Working closely with the business, you’ll provide practical, clear legal advice that supports strategic decision-making and delivers strong commercial outcomes. You’ll use your expertise across transactions and projects, so clear, efficient, and effective communication with stakeholders at all levels is consistently achieved. You’ll play a key role during a period of growth within the Private Banking and Wealth Management business.
Your work will focus on:
- Providing proactive, commercially focused legal advice on wealth management and retail investment products and services
- Supporting strategic growth and integration activity, advising on key initiatives and helping to manage legal risk effectively
- Partnering with senior stakeholders across the business, including Risk, Compliance and Governance, to support informed decision-making
- Influencing decisions in a regulated environment, balancing commercial objectives with legal and regulatory requirements
- Driving improvements in operating practices and processes, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency and reduce complexity
We’re looking for someone with strong experience in financial services, with a deep understanding of the wealth management and retail investments products and services. You’ll be confident operating in a dynamic environment, building credibility quickly and establishing trusted relationships with senior executives, colleagues and external stakeholders.
You’ll bring:
- A strong understanding of the wealth and asset management sector, including the legal and regulatory environment in which it operates
- Proven leadership capability, with the ability to guide teams, influence direction and support high-quality delivery across complex areas of work
- The ability to identify and assess strategic, legal and reputational risk, providing clear direction on how they should be managed or resolved
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
07/07/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstSkills Required
- Strong experience in financial services, particularly wealth management and retail investments
- Deep understanding of the legal and regulatory environment for wealth and asset management
- Proven leadership capability and experience guiding teams and influencing senior stakeholders
- Ability to identify, assess, and advise on strategic, legal and reputational risk
- Strong commercial judgment and ability to provide clear, practical legal advice
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with senior executives and external parties
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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