Professional Support Lawyer

Barclays UK; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as a Professional Support Lawyer in Glasgow, supporting the Barclays UK Legal team. You will manage legal risks and develop a knowledge management strategy aligned with regulatory compliance. Ideal candidates are qualified lawyers with financial regulatory experience and strong analytical skills.

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with financial regulatory experience.
• Ability to navigate the FCA Handbook and PRA Rulebook.
• Understanding of working in a highly regulated financial institution.

Responsibilities

• Monitor legal and market developments, advising on risks and trends.
• Promote best practices for capturing and sharing LRR knowledge.
• Design and deliver training to team members.

Skills

Financial regulatory experience

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

Qualified lawyer

Job description

Join us as a Professional Support Lawyer within Barclays UK (BUK) Legal. The BUK Legal team ensures that the consumer banking activities of Barclays Bank UK PLC are conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations (LRRs), helping the bank manage legal and regulatory risks associated with those activities.

As the team’s Professional Support Lawyer and a member of the BUK Corporate Functions Legal team, you will be instrumental in developing and implementing a laws, rules, and regulations (LRRs) knowledge management strategy. You will also support the BUK Legal team in advising and managing legal risk arising from new LRRs in compliance with Barclays policies and standards.

To be successful in this role, you will:

• be a qualified lawyer with financial regulatory experience;
• be able to navigate the FCA Handbook and PRA Rulebook;
• have an understanding of working in a highly regulated financial institution.

Additional valued skills may include experience of ringfencing, the appointed representative regime, or consumer banking products and regulation, as well as experience in stakeholder management and senior-level briefings.

This role will be based in Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To act as a professional support lawyer for the Barclays Bank UK (BUK) Legal team, supporting the management of legal risk through developing and executing a LRR knowledge management strategy aligned with team objectives, and advising on legal risk from new LRRs.

Key Responsibilities

1. Monitor legal and market developments, advising the team on risks and trends.
2. Promote best practices for capturing, curating, and sharing LRR knowledge.
3. Produce analysis and updates for internal briefings, coordinating inputs from various teams.
4. Design and deliver training to team members and the business.
5. Lead the development of the team’s LRR strategy to support stakeholder priorities.
6. Collaborate with legal tech, innovation, and project management teams to improve efficiencies.
7. Support knowledge sharing across teams through platforms and process improvements.
8. Coordinate SME input for maintaining a global LRR inventory.
9. Ensure LRRs are reflected in policies, standards, and controls.
10. Work closely with the Central Legal Team and Risk and Compliance colleagues.
11. Engage with internal and external legal and business stakeholders.
12. Contribute to strategic planning, resource management, and policy development.
13. If managing a team, define roles, plan for future needs, and oversee performance and development.
14. Demonstrate leadership behaviors such as listening, inspiring, aligning, and developing others.
15. As an individual contributor, serve as a SME, guide technical direction, and mentor less experienced staff.
16. Advise stakeholders on impacts and alignments across functions.
17. Manage risks and strengthen controls, demonstrating accountability.
18. Contribute to organizational goals and collaborate across departments.
19. Develop solutions through analytical thinking and research.
20. Build and maintain trusting relationships with stakeholders to achieve business objectives.

All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays' values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

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