Legal Counsel - Commercial Banking

Join us as a Legal Counsel

This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Legal Counsel, where you'll deliver the legal strategy and provide expert, accurate and cost-effective legal advice. Your role will sit within our Commercial Banking business area, so we'll need you to have an understanding of associated legal issues. More specifically, you will support our asset and invoice finance businesses. You'll be recognised as an 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 our asset and invoice finance 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 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 projects, products and initiatives to stakeholders in a commercial, user friendly and efficient manner
• Managing legal costs and driving a culture of disciplined cost management and controls

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you'll need experience of providing legal and commercial advice in-house, or in a leading UK law firm. We'll expect you to have in depth knowledge of asset and invoice finance, and general knowledge of banking law and practice, and the financial services industry, coupled with the ability to establish and maintain strong relationships across the bank.

You'll also need:

• Knowledge of the commercial banking and finance 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

You'll be based in London and join a highly regarded team which works on a remote first basis and has excellent relationships across internal stakeholders. In addition to SME across asset and invoice finance, qualities like proactivity, empathy and a willingness to learn are much valued.