Legal Counsel - Commercial
Skills
ArrangingBusinessContinuous ImprovementFinancial ServicesInvestment ManagementNegotiationService-Level Agreements
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Solicitor qualified to practise in England & Wales or Scotland with approximately 5+ years' PQE or equivalent experience
- Strong experience drafting reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts
- Experience advising on supplier outsourcing technology and services agreements
- Experience of data protection matters within a commercial contracting environment
- Experience gained in-house and/or within financial services fintech or another regulated environment would be advantageous
- Experience negotiating investment management custody and dealing arrangements would be beneficial
- Experience supporting strategic projects business change activities and stakeholder decision-making
- Experience maintaining precedents templates playbooks or guidance documentation
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple matters simultaneously
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and other business systems used to manage legal workload and documentation
Nice to have
- Commercial awareness
- Strong negotiation skills
- Stakeholder management
- Pragmatic approach
- Attention to detail
- Collaborative working
- Continuous improvement
Day to day
- Provide commercially focused and pragmatic legal advice across the Group's commercial activities
- Negotiate draft and manage a broad range of commercial arrangements including supplier outsourcing technology data and distribution agreements
- Support investment platform and custody dealing arrangements plus strategic initiatives proposition development and regulatory change projects
Hiring process
- Get in touch with Hannah in the People team