Legal Counsel (FTC)

Castle Trust Bank; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A fintech challenger bank is looking for a Legal Counsel to join their team. This role involves providing legal advice across various business lines, including Residential Property and Consumer Credit. Candidates should be qualified solicitors with post-qualification experience and strong organisational skills. This position is hybrid, covering maternity leave for up to 14 months, offering competitive salary and generous benefits including pension scheme and private medical options.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Contributory pension scheme

28 days annual leave

Private medical options

Free eye test vouchers

Discounted gym membership

Season ticket travel loans

Qualifications

• Demonstrable post-qualification experience in legal counsel.
• Experience in-house within banking or regulated financial institutions preferred.
• Knowledge of real estate finance or consumer finance.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice on Residential Property, Consumer Credit/Finance and Savings.
• Review, negotiate and create contracts with suppliers.
• Support the General Counsel in maintaining standard form documentation.

Skills

Post-qualification experience

Strong planning and organisational skills

Commercial mindset

Problem-solving

Education

Qualified solicitor with UK practising certificate

Job description

The opportunity

We have an opportunity for a talented Legal Counsel to join us on the exciting and rewarding path we are taking here at Castle Trust Bank. We pride ourselves in being a fintech challenger bank, providing specialist property mortgages, retail finance lending and savings accounts to a variety of customers.

As a Legal Counsel, you will form part of a small legal team and operate in a generalist capacity, working across the various business lines within the Bank. You will have the opportunity to provide legal advice in relation to matters in Residential Property, Consumer Credit/Finance and Savings. Should any matters of litigation arise, you will play an important and key role in supporting the business and mitigate risk. Another focus of this role will be to review, negotiate and create contracts with suppliers and other external counterparties, in addition to supporting the General Counsel in ensuring that the Bank’s standard form documentation is properly maintained.

The role will be on a hybrid working arrangement, 3 days a week from our London office and the rest of the week from home. This is a fixed-term contract opportunity covering a period of maternity leave for up to 14 months.

What we are looking for in you…

What is important to us is that you are a qualified solicitor (with a UK practising certificate) with demonstrable post-qualification experience. It would be preferred if you have previous experience operating in-house, ideally within banking (however not essential, other regulated financial institutions will be considered). It is important that you have operated in either real estate finance or consumer finance to allow you to hit the ground running.

What is equally important to us

What is equally important to us is that you have strong planning and organisational skills, with sound technical legal skills and knowledge and a commercial mindset. You will be a natural problem solver with the ability to innovate whilst providing exceptional customer service to your stakeholders at all times.

What’s in it for you…

As well as a competitive salary, we offer a generous contributory pension scheme through Hargreaves Lansdown, life assurance, 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays on top). Wellbeing is also high on our agenda, and we offer a number of private medical options. In addition, all colleagues have free access to TELUS Health EAP to support their health and wellbeing. We also offer free eye test vouchers and discounted gym membership, and if that’s not enough, we also offer season ticket travel loans.

Caught your attention?

If so, we’d love to talk to you and tell you more about what it’s like to work at Castle Trust Bank – The Place To Work!

Castle Trust Bank is an equal opportunity employer where we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our colleagues to thrive. We welcome applications from all and will not discriminate against any status/characteristic protected by law and base our decisions on merit.

If you are a person with a disability and need a reasonable adjustment to apply for one of our opportunities, please contact talent at castletrust.co.uk