Legal Counsel (12 Months)

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job description

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. We are offering this role for a period of 12 months.

What you'll do

We’re looking for an experienced Legal Counsel to manage and coordinate the delivery of legal advice, supporting our Commercial & Institutional Banking business. 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. You’ll also need to be able to advise on a range of different products including term lending, transaction banking and trade finance, so an in-depth knowledge and experience of lending products is desirable.

You’ll also need:

• Knowledge of the commercial and institutional 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.