Securitisation Lawyer (VP)

Barclays UK; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a Securitisation Lawyer to deliver legal and regulatory support in London. The role involves advising on secured funding, managing legal documentation, and ensuring compliance with corporate governance. Required qualifications include being a UK-qualified lawyer with strong knowledge in securitisation and risk management.

Qualifications

• UK-qualified lawyer with experience in securitisation.
• Knowledge of significant risk transfer transactions.
• Strong commercial focus and ability to work under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Assist on Treasury's standalone issuances and secured debt issuance programmes.
• Review and draft legal documentation and support due diligence.
• Provide legal advice on compliance with corporate governance.

Skills

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Execution-focused mindset

Education

UK-qualified lawyer

Job description

As a Securitisation Lawyer, you will provide daily legal and regulatory support across new and existing securitisation workstreams in collaboration with Treasury Legal Colleagues. Your role involves leading efforts to establish new sources of secured funding, including standalone risk transfer trades, while delivering specialist technical advice to Treasury stakeholders. This includes supporting secured funding programmes and standalone trades across Barclays Bank UK PLC, Barclays Bank PLC, and Barclays Bank Ireland PLC.

Key Accountabilities

1. Taking a leading role within the GCTL Team as Legal Business Partner to Barclays Treasury in relation to:

• Assisting on Treasury's standalone issuances, including new significant risk transfer/similar trades.
• Maintaining Treasury's secured debt issuance programmes.

Reviewing and drafting legal documentation for projects and transactions contemplated by Treasury with external counsel as necessary.

Supporting on due diligence, representation and warranty reviews, disclosure, and general securitisation transaction management.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• UK-qualified lawyer with good technical knowledge and experience of securitisation gained in private practice.
• Knowledge of significant risk transfer transactions and derivatives.
• Certainty in advising on key risk issues and mitigants and helping to make decisions.
• Execution-focused mindset. Good attention to detail and transaction management skills.
• Comfortable with and used to working under tight deadlines.
• Strong commercial focus with an aptitude for problem-solving.
• Knowledge of unsecured issuance.
• Prioritizes and manages workload effectively.
• Takes ownership and sees matters to completion.
• Is a team player, collegiate, and supportive of colleagues.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technological skills, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This is a full-time, permanent role based in London.

Purpose of the role

To ensure that the bank’s corporate and corporate governance activities, including public disclosures, are compliant. Creation and periodic review of legal documents in accordance with contractual arrangements policy.

Accountabilities

1. Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance.
2. Legal advice and support to the bank on a wide range of issues, including disclosure, financial reporting, company and corporate law, corporate governance, securities issuances, regulatory capital, recovery and resolution planning, and contractual arrangements with utility providers.
3. Representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to corporate legislation and regulatory requirements, including litigation, arbitration, and investigations, working with internal teams as appropriate.
4. Creation and review of legal documents such as disclosures, securities offering documents, contracts, policies, and procedures to ensure legal compliance.
5. Legal research and analysis to stay updated on relevant laws and regulations affecting the bank.
6. Developing and delivering training on legal and regulatory requirements related to corporate activities.
7. Proactively identifying, communicating, and advising on applicable laws, rules, and regulations, ensuring they are reflected in policies, standards, and controls.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and recommend changes. Manage resources, budgets, and policies; deliver improvements; escalate issues.
• If managing a team, define roles, plan for future needs, counsel on performance, and contribute to pay decisions. Lead specialists to influence operations, balance short and long-term goals, and ensure compliance with budgets and schedules.
• If in a leadership role, demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energize and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For individual contributors, serve as a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead multi-year projects, and mentor less experienced staff.
• Advise stakeholders, manage risks, and strengthen controls.
• Demonstrate understanding of organizational functions to support business goals.
• Collaborate across departments to stay aligned with business strategies.
• Create solutions based on analytical and research-driven insights.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using influencing skills to achieve outcomes.

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