Managing Legal Counsel
Skills
ActingContinuous ImprovementE-InvoicingEmerging TechnologiesHorizon ScanningLeadershipProcess Optimization
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Deep knowledge of banking law and practice with significant financial services experience
- Extensive expertise in payments regulation and payments schemes
- Developing understanding of digital assets regulation in-house or at a leading law firm
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and contributing to strategic business decisions
- Ability to identify assess and communicate complex legal and regulatory risks clearly and pragmatically
- Proactive horizon scanning and thought leadership
- Ability to determine responses to strategic legal or reputational issues
Nice to have
- Commercially focused
- User friendly
- Efficient
- Ambitious
- Proactive
- Strategic
Day to day
- Lead the Payments Legal Centre of Expertise and coordinate specialist legal advice across the bank and LG&RA function.
- Shape legal strategy for payments and digital assets while advising senior stakeholders on regulation, risk and innovation.
- Support the launch of new products and services, including tokenisation stablecoins custody and programmable payments, in a fast-changing market.