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Community Options, Inc.

City of Edinburgh

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GBP 50,000 - 70,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Join a leading company as a Legal Counsel, where you will shape the legal strategy and deliver advice within the Commercial & Institutional Banking division. This role requires providing expert guidance on various banking issues, managing legal risks, and engaging with stakeholders effectively. Ideal candidates will bring a strong legal background, especially in banking law, and a proactive approach to legal challenges.

Qualifications

Experience providing legal and commercial advice in-house or in a leading UK law firm.
In-depth knowledge of general banking law and financial services.
Familiarity with syndicated lending and capital management desirable.

Responsibilities

Deliver legal strategy and provide expert legal advice.
Manage and co-ordinate the delivery of legal advice across various banking areas.
Ensure legal risks are minimized and that advice is understandable to non-lawyers.

Skills

Legal advice

Understanding legal issues

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Proactive attitude

Education

Qualified solicitor or barrister

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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 & Institutional Banking business area, so we’ll need you to have an understanding of associated legal issues
You’ll be recognised as an expert in your field, and be exposed to stakeholders across the bank and externally

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 & Institutional Banking business area, so we’ll need you to have an understanding of associated legal issues
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 co-ordinate the delivery of legal advice, supporting our Commercial Mid-Market, Business Banking, Asset & Invoice Finance, Restructuring and Capital Management business areas. The role offers great breadth of learning and experience and an opportunity to make a difference to the success of the bank and its customers. 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 transactions and projects to stakeholders in a commercial, user friendly and efficient manner
Managing legal costs through the use of e-billing, auctions and other cost tools 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 relation to transactions and projects in-house, or in a leading UK law firm. We’ll expect you to have in depth knowledge of general banking law and practice, and the financial services industry, coupled with the ability to establish and maintain strong relationships across the bank. Although not a pre-requisite, it is highly desirable that you have a familiarity with syndicated lending and experience in supporting Capital Management activities, including secondary loan trading and credit risk insurance transactions.

You’ll Also Need

Knowledge of the commercial and institutional banking business activities, the commercial environment within which it operates 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
A proactive attitude to developing skills in the business areas which our team supports

Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
Full-time

Job function

Job function
Legal
Industries
Banking, Software Development, and Investment Banking

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