Strategic Transaction Legal Manager — Flexible Hours

Grant Thornton UK; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Grant Thornton UK is seeking a Transaction Legal Coordinator (Manager) within Strategic Advisory. You will lead the central legal process function for NDAs, release letters, and related documents across live engagements, coordinating with deal teams, clients, lenders and internal risk and legal stakeholders.

The role requires strong legal process knowledge, commercial judgment and confidence to represent the firm with external counterparties on active transactions.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in a legal, paralegal or legal process management role.
• Holds a recognised legal qualification (LLB, GDL, or equivalent), or is a qualified solicitor/barrister.
• Experience in a financial services professional services environment.
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent matters, prioritise effectively and maintain accuracy under time pressure.
• Experience advising or coordinating with internal risk, compliance or legal stakeholders on documentation workflows.
• Strong judgment on when to escalate.
• Clear and confident communicator, able to brief senior stakeholders on documentation status and risks without unnecessary jargon.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the Strategic Advisory legal documentation function, managing NDAs, release letters and related documentation across Debt and Capital Advisory and TAS, overseeing the Assistant Manager.
• Act as the senior point of escalation for complex or non-standard documentation matters and advise on mark-ups, AQRM or legal escalation.
• Build and maintain relationships with AQRM and internal legal teams, coordinating risk and legal approval workflows.
• Drive process improvement and standardisation across the legal documentation function with templates and SOPs.
• Identify and implement improvements to documentation processes and turnaround times across Strategic Advisory.
• Provide regular reporting to the Operations Lead on volumes, turnaround times and service quality.

Skills

Legal process management

Commercial judgment

Clear communication

Risk and legal workflows

Education

LLB/GDL or equivalent

Qualified solicitor/barrister

Tools

AQRM

Job description

Grant Thornton UK is seeking a Transaction Legal Coordinator (Manager) within Strategic Advisory. You will lead the central legal process function for NDAs, release letters, and related documents across live engagements, coordinating with deal teams, clients, lenders and internal risk and legal stakeholders.

The role requires strong legal process knowledge, commercial judgment and confidence to represent the firm with external counterparties on active transactions.