The Role
Provide expert legal advice on commercial contracts, including drafting, negotiation, and compliance with regulations. Oversee supplier agreements and manage legal risks across various internal functions.
Summary Generated by Built In
Titan Wealth is a fast-growing wealth management business, both in the UK and internationally. It has evolved a fairer, more efficient and effective business model, structured to deliver leading advice-led wealth management services, giving financial advisers and their clients the best opportunity to fulfil their dreams and ambitions.
We provide a dynamic work environment full of opportunity, one where both individual and team initiative and contribution is encouraged, so that together we can deliver better outcomes for our clients over the long term.
To provide expert commercial contracts legal advice, drafting and negotiation support to the Titan Group. The role involves leading on all legal aspects relating to third party supplier contracts and services agreements, supporting legal risk management across the Group, and working closely with senior management, the businesses and central functions on commercial contract matters and associated legal and regulatory issues.
Responsibilities
- Lead the drafting, negotiation, structuring and management of commercial and technology contracts across the Titan Group, including outsourcing, IT services, Cloud, SaaS, AI, software licensing, data processing and Intragroup Agreements.
- Identify and mitigate legal, regulatory and data protection risks across the Group, including compliance with FCA requirements, EBA Guidelines and DORA, and maintain third party supplier management policies and procedures.
- Draft and maintain contract precedent templates and associated guidance material, and provide training to internal teams on commercial contracts and regulatory developments.
- Act as legal lead on AI-related initiatives, including AI supplier engagements, internal AI projects, the AI governance framework and identifying opportunities for AI within the legal team's operating model.
- Oversee registration, protection and management of the international Trade Marks portfolio.
- Lead the Intragroup Agreements programme, including framework design, drafting, negotiation and execution.
- Deliver tailored legal advice to central functions including Marketing, Operations, Finance, Facilities, Property, Compliance and IT.
- Manage and oversee external legal counsel relationships, ensuring high-quality legal support in line with budgetary requirements.
Critical Skills and Experience required
- Significant in-house experience drafting, negotiating and managing large-scale technology, AI and commercial contracts across multiple jurisdictions, including engagements with start-ups.
- Strong academic credentials with a proven track record in commercial contracts within regulated financial services, and the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams in a fast-paced environment.
- Strategic, commercially minded and self-motivated, with strong communication, analytical, drafting and negotiation skills and the ability to work autonomously and manage junior team members.
Qualifications (Essential & Desirable)
- 6+ years PQE in commercial contracts within a regulated financial services organisation, preferably FinTech.
Key Interfaces (Internal and External)
- Internal: Senior Management, Business Units, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Facilities, Property, Compliance, IT, Procurement, Vendor Management, International Offices. External: External Legal Counsel, Third Party Suppliers and Vendors, Regulatory Bodies.
FCA requirements TCF/RCR
- Adhere to all FCA regulations including EBA Guidelines.
- To highlight to your line manager procedures & processes that do not adhere to the principles of TCF/RCR and to put forward suggestions that improve the TCF/RCR practices within the department.
Our employees are talented people, distinguished by excellence. You will be able to demonstrate a willingness to embrace the Company values of:
Creativity – we recognise we need new ways of thinking, learning and doing to both improve our own productivity and efficiency as well as to help us stay ahead of competitors.
Commitment – we are team with the willingness to put time, effort and energy into driving change in the organisation, going the extra mile.
Collaboration – we need teamwork amongst ourselves and with partners to generate more innovative, efficient and effective solutions and thereby a greater sense of achievement.
Terms
- Competitive salary
- Attractive Employee Pension Scheme (7.5% employer & minimum 3% employee)
- 25 days Annual Leave + public holidays
- Buy and sell holidays up to 5 days
- Office Christmas close (3-days)
- A range of benefits which includes private medical insurance, Group life insurance, and income protection insurance.
- Hybrid working
- Further education and training support
- Discretionary performance related bonus
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- 2 days per year for voluntary work
- And lots of flexible benefits to choose from!
The Titan Wealth Group is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for everyone who works with us, regardless of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or disability, or political affiliation. We believe that having a diverse team allows us to create the best possible outcomes for our clients and team members. We strive to provide equal opportunities in all aspects of the workplace with respect to recruitment and career advancement, pay and benefits, training and development opportunities and other job-related activities.
Skills Required
- 6+ years PQE in commercial contracts
- In-house experience with technology and AI contracts
- Strong communication, analytical, drafting, and negotiation skills
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The Company
What We Do
Titan is a discretionary fund management / wealth and asset management business. Targeting £50 billion in assets under administration over the next three to five years and assets under management of £40 billion, Titan aims to bring high-quality execution and administration to the asset and wealth management sector. Titan provides execution, custody, clearing and wealth management services to small and medium sized broker dealers, proprietary traders, intermediaries, family offices and wealth managers and platform services, custody and investment solutions to financial advisors, family offices, retail clients and institutions via a network of trusted intermediaries.
