Legal Counsel

Join us as a Legal Counsel

• This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Legal Counsel in our Everyday Banking and Payments team, mainly supporting our Payments Legal Centre of Expertise. You'll co-ordinate and manage timely and effective delivery of legal and regulatory advice to our Payments CoE business and more broadly in relation to customer journeys in our Retail and Wealth business areas
• Your role will sit within our Retail and Wealth Legal Team, so we'll need you to have an understanding of associated legal issues
• You'll be recognised as a strategic thinker, a commercial operator and expert in your field, and be exposed to stakeholders across the bank and externally

What you'll do

We're looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to manage and coordinate the delivery of legal advice, supporting the Payments CoE and our Retail and Wealth businesses. You'll work closely with stakeholders and legal 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

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you'll need some post-qualified experience along with experience of providing legal 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 and the financial services industry, coupled with the ability to establish and maintain strong relationships across the bank. Experience of payment services regulations, open banking, and transaction banking services generally would be desirable.

You'll also need:

• Knowledge of Payments and Retail and Wealth 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