Legal Counsel (6 months)
| Posting date: | 29 March 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 April 2024 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00230529-OTHLOC-GBR-5FLON311 |
Summary
Join us as a Legal Counsel
- This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Legal Counsel in the Unsecured Lending, Financial Health & Support (FH&S) and Consumer Credit Act (CCA) Center of Excellence (COE) Retail Legal Team
- You’ll deliver legal strategy and provide expert, accurate and cost-effective legal advice as part of our dual location and dynamic team
- Your role will sit within our Retail Banking business area, but you'll also advise on personal unsecured lending originating from the Wealth and Premier business areas and the wider debt recovery work of the FH&S business
- We're offering this role for a period of six months
What you'll do
We’re looking for a Legal Counsel to work across the team, supporting our Retail Banking, Wealth and FH&S business areas. You’ll work closely with stakeholders and legal colleagues to ensure the timely, effective and efficient delivery of all issues, projects and initiatives.
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
- Working across Retail Legal and the CCA COE on cross team programs and projects
- Advising with colleagues from other support functions, for example Risk and Conduct
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 an insight of general banking law and practice, and the financial services industry. We're looking for a self-starter and a team player with dedication to upskilling and personal development.
You’ll also need:
- Knowledge of the retail banking business activities, the commercial environment within which it operates and associated legal issues
- Some experience of advising on legal issues which are associated with consumer lending
- A genuine appetite to support our customers and deliver excellent service to our varied stakeholders
- The ability to keep up to date with and share relevant legal and market developments