Senior Regulatory Counsel — Global FinReg & Compliance

Walkers; Daliburgh; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Pension

Health insurance

Holiday entitlement

Job summary

Walkers seeks a Senior Counsel to join the Regulatory and Risk Advisory Group in our Guernsey office. The role requires 7+ PQE and deep regulatory expertise across cross-jurisdictional frameworks to advise on non-contentious regulatory matters and sanctions-related issues for multinational clients.

The successful candidate will provide technically sound advice, develop client relationships, and contribute to know-how development while upholding the firm’s values and ethics.

Qualifications

• Qualified Commonwealth lawyer with a minimum of 7 years of post-qualifying experience at a leading domestic or international law firm.
• Excellent academics with top-level experience.
• Ambitious, enthusiastic, diplomatic and commercially driven.
• Solid legal skills with competent understanding of relevant market and client industries and technical knowledge of the relevant law.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Passion for learning about new businesses and new laws.
• Ability to work autonomously successfully in a collaborative environment, a team player, willing to support others regardless of personal role or taskand to help others in identifying needs and crafting development plans.
• Offshore jurisdiction experience and/or familiarity with offshore financial service providers preferred.
• Ability to use legal precedents and timekeeping and billing systems.
• Ability to support efforts to attract new clients and develop new initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Undertake regulatory cross-jurisdictional analysis and provide a holistic solution for multi-national clients with regulatory considerations across jurisdictions.
• Advise on a broad range of non-contentious regulatory matters for various industry sector clients with excellent advisory drafting skills.
• Advise on sanctions-related issues and financial crime prevention where possible.
• Understand the financial services industry and relevant markets including banking, insurance, securities, fintech and funds.
• Provide technically sound advice and highly responsive service to clients and internal teams.
• Assist in developing and expanding client relationships important to the Firm and support colleagues.
• Maintain revenue generation, follow billing arrangements, manage costs, ensure utilization meets expectations.
• Adhere to Firm values and professional ethics, participate in knowledge sharing and internal training.

Skills

Regulatory analysis

Advisory drafting

Financial crime awareness

Offshore experience

Client relationship building

Billing experience

Education

Commonwealth lawyer qualification

Tools

Timekeeping systems

Billing systems

Job description

Walkers seeks a Senior Counsel to join the Regulatory and Risk Advisory Group in our Guernsey office. The role requires 7+ PQE and deep regulatory expertise across cross-jurisdictional frameworks to advise on non-contentious regulatory matters and sanctions-related issues for multinational clients.

The successful candidate will provide technically sound advice, develop client relationships, and contribute to know-how development while upholding the firm’s values and ethics.