Managing Legal Counsel (12 months)
| Posting date: | 10 April 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 10 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00230528-OTHLOC-GBR-5FLON311 |
Summary
Join us as a Managing Legal Counsel
- This is an excellent opportunity to join us as a Managing Legal Counsel in the Unsecured Lending, Financial Health & Support (FH&S) and Consumer Credit Act Centre of Excellence (CCA COE) Retail Banking Legal team where you’ll develop and deliver legal strategy and provide expert, commercial, accurate and cost-effective legal advice as part of our dual location and dynamic team
- You'll also lead a Consumer Credit Centre of Excellence and advise on unsecured lending originating from the Wealth and Premier business areas, as well as other parts of the bank
- You’ll be responsible for leading the provision of expert regulated lending advice to our stakeholders and overseeing more junior members of the team
- We're offering this role for a period of 12 months
What you'll do
We’re looking for a Managing Legal Counsel to lead regulated lending support to 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 advice on a wide range of issues, projects and initiatives.
Additionally, you’ll be:
- Supporting in the management and strategy of the team, including the training and development of more junior lawyers
- Leading a pan bank Centre of Excellence for consumer credit and providing expert counsel on consumer credit matters
- Delivering and preparing complex legal advice that is accessible to all levels of stakeholders across our business areas within relevant timescales and which manages and minimises legal risk
- Managing continuous improvement in operating practices and processes, including identifying efficiencies, improvements and opportunities to reduce costs
- Advising with colleagues from mother support functions, for example Risk and Conduct
The skills you'll need
To be successful in this role, you'll need experience of providing senior level legal and commercial advice in-house, or in a leading UK law firm. We’ll expect you to have an in-depth knowledge of retail banking law and practice, as well as experience advising on legal issues associated with all aspects of regulated, unsecured consumer lending. We are looking for a motivated and inspiring hard worker who is dedicated to upskilling and development.
You’ll also need:
- The ability to keep up to date with legal and industry developments and share relevant legal and market developments across multiple media, to varied audiences
- To be committed to establishing strong relationships with team members and stakeholders in a flexible way, across locations