Strategic UK Financial Services Counsel

Ford Credit; Basildon; In loco; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Ford Credit seeks a UK Legal Advisor to provide practical, commercially focused legal advice to FCE Bank operations in the UK. The role covers consumer finance, banking regulation, regulatory change implementation and legal risk management.

You will partner with compliance, risk, operations, product and project teams to support strategic priorities while ensuring compliance with applicable laws, with attendance at the Dunton office four days a week.

Competenze

• 5–10 years post-qualification experience in financial services, banking, or consumer finance.
• Strong knowledge of consumer finance and financial services regulation.
• Experience advising business stakeholders in a complex, highly regulated environment.
• Experience on large-scale regulatory change, remediation, or transformation programmes is highly desirable.

Mansioni

• Provide day-to-day legal advice on consumer credit, financial services regulation, banking regulation, insurance, customer communications, product development, and operational initiatives.
• Advise on UK legal and regulatory developments and support implementation of legal and regulatory change programmes.
• Interpret new legislation, regulatory consultations, and FCA/PRA requirements, translating them into practical business actions.
• Work closely with Compliance and Risk teams to assess legal implications of regulatory developments and support governance forums.
• Support complex customer remediation and redress programmes, including legal interpretation of regulatory requirements and customer treatment principles.
• Advise programme teams on legal risk, consumer protection requirements, complaints, ombudsman matters, and customer outcomes.
• Review and advise on legal positions relating to consumer credit agreements, financial promotions, customer communications, and related regulatory obligations.
• Provide clear, solution-oriented legal advice that enables business objectives while appropriately managing legal and regulatory risk.
• Instruct and manage external counsel where specialist advice or litigation support is required.

Conoscenze

Regulatory expertise

Stakeholder management

Commercial acumen

Legal risk management

Formazione

Qualified solicitor in England and Wales

Descrizione del lavoro

Ford Credit seeks a UK Legal Advisor to provide practical, commercially focused legal advice to FCE Bank operations in the UK. The role covers consumer finance, banking regulation, regulatory change implementation and legal risk management.

You will partner with compliance, risk, operations, product and project teams to support strategic priorities while ensuring compliance with applicable laws, with attendance at the Dunton office four days a week.