Senior Legal Counsel, Risk Intelligence & Innovation

lseg

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Job summary

LSEG is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to provide legal support to the FTSE Russell and Risk Intelligence divisions. This London-based role enables product innovation, manages regulatory risk, and supports commercial execution across global markets, with a focus on Risk Intelligence.

The role requires a qualified lawyer with post-qualification experience in commercial, regulatory, and financial services law, able to work autonomously and collaboratively within the Legal & Compliance team.

Qualifications

Qualified lawyer with meaningful post-qualification experience in commercial, regulatory, and financial services law.
Demonstrated experience as a legal counsel, including managing strategic initiatives.
Ability to steer stakeholders as a trusted advisor across functions and governance structures.

Responsibilities

Enable delivery of risk management and commercial objectives for Risk Intelligence, ensuring alignment with Group strategy and regulatory requirements.
Serve as a trusted advisor to business and other functional stakeholders, identifying legal and regulatory risks and supporting strategic business decisions.
Advise on legal and regulatory implications of emerging technologies, data acquisition strategies, AI-enabled products and product roadmap decisions, balancing innovation with legal and regulatory requirements.
Negotiate and manage important, high-value agreements (including data, IP and outsourcing), ensuring robust risk assessment and mitigation.
Partner with stakeholders on the implementation of legal aspects of new product development, regulatory change, market expansion, and strategic initiatives, including AI.
Demonstrate the legal team culture of high performance, inclusion, and continuous development.
Collaborate closely with privacy, litigation, compliance, GRRS and risk teams on disputes, advocacy, regulatory matters, and cross-functional projects.
Develop and maintain strong relationships with legal service providers, ensuring efficiency, value and alignment with business objectives.
Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant laws and regulations, and ensure the implementation of effective internal controls, policies, and procedures.
Represent Legal at Risk Intelligence governance forums and committees, providing input on risk, compliance, and business transformation.
Contribute to special projects, including group/division/function-wide initiatives, template and playbook development, MLS, regulatory change, and operational improvements in collaboration with the broader L&C teams.