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Commercial Lawyer

Arbuthnot Yon

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Full time

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Job summary

An established UK-based fintech company is seeking a senior commercial lawyer for a 12-month maternity cover contract. This role involves leading the Commercial Legal Team, managing legal strategies, and implementing legal tech solutions to enhance efficiency. The successful candidate will collaborate on product development and advise on regulatory matters, all within a flexible hybrid working environment. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to an innovative platform that simplifies financial management for over a million users.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Attractive benefits package

Discretionary bonus

Qualifications

Experience in managing a legal team and executing legal strategies.
Proven track record in commercial contract drafting and negotiation.

Responsibilities

Lead the Commercial Legal Team and supervise junior members.
Draft and negotiate a variety of commercial contracts.

Skills

Commercial Law

Contract Negotiation

Legal Tech Implementation

Regulatory Compliance

Education

Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

Qualified Solicitor

Tools

AI Contract Review Tools

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Our client is an established UK based Fintech who, with a growing customer base of over 1 million users, is achieving its aim of making financial management accessible to anyone. Since inception, this business has developed a number of innovative products and can function as an all-in-one platform for savings, investments and pensions.

We are now seeking a senior commercial lawyer, for a 12-month fixed-term contract maternity cover role.

The incumbent acts as the Head of Legal for the Commercial Team, managing a small team of 3 professionals and reporting to the Legal Director. The successful candidate will work from the Central London Headquarters and home (hybrid) and will perform a broad role encompassing:

Acting as legal lead of the Commercial Legal Team: supervising and allocating work to more junior members and executing the business’ legal strategy in broader terms;
Leading legal tech implementation, which may include the use of AI contract review tools with the aim of increasing the efficacy of the CLM function;
Drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts, such as those with banking partners, outsourcers as well as customer-facing terms;
Collaborate internally on the development of new products as well as promotions of the current product range;
Advising the Compliance Team on regulatory queries as and when required.

We are looking for candidates with a track record of handling escalation points on BAU commercial legal work, as well as driving legal tech/efficiency projects within the financial services arena (ideally from another fintech/early growth company).

Our client will offer a competitive base salary, attractive benefits package, discretionary bonus and a flexible, hybrid home/office working policy.

If the above is of interest, please apply directly through LinkedIn with your CV.

Should you have any queries, please contact:

Celene Yon: celene@aysearch.com

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Due to a high volume of applications we will only respond to those we deem suitable for the role.

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Contract

Job function

Job function
Legal
Industries
Financial Services, Technology, Information and Media, and Banking

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