UK Legal Advisor

Lincoln Motor Company; West Horndon; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincoln Motor Company seeks a UK Legal Advisor to provide practical, commercially focused legal guidance to UK operations, covering consumer credit, banking and financial services regulations. You will support regulatory change programmes and work with Compliance, Risk, and business teams to implement compliant solutions.

The role involves interpreting new legislation, advising on regulatory developments, and overseeing remediation or transformation programmes, with external counsel input as

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales (required).
• 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 highly regulated environment.
• Experience with large-scale regulatory change, remediation, or transformation is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical, commercially focused legal advice to UK operations on consumer credit and financial services.
• Advise on UK legal and regulatory developments and support implementation of regulatory change programmes.
• Interpret legislation and regulatory requirements, translating them into business actions.
• Collaborate with Compliance and Risk teams to assess legal implications of regulatory developments.
• Instruct and manage external counsel when specialist advice is required.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

Commercial mindset

Legal risk assessment

Communication skills

Education

Qualified solicitor in England and Wales

Job description

The UK Legal Advisor will provide practical, commercially focused legal advice to FCE Bank operations in the UK. The role supports a wide range of legal, regulatory, governance, product, and operational initiatives, with particular emphasis on consumer finance, banking, insurance, regulatory and legal change implementation, and legal risk management. The successful candidate will partner closely with business, compliance, risk, operations, product, and project teams to help deliver strategic priorities while ensuring compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements., 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.

Minimum requirements we seek:

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales.
• 5-10 years of post-qualification experience in a financial services, banking, or consumer finance environment.
• Strong knowledge of consumer finance and financial services regulation.
• Experience advising business stakeholders in a complex, highly regulated environment.
• Demonstrated ability to balance legal risk management with commercial objectives.
• Experience working on large-scale regulatory change, remediation, or transformation programmes is highly desirable.
• Desirable: Sound legal judgement and risk assessment.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• Ability to simplify complex legal issues for non-legal audiences.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, and discretion.
• Collaborative and solutions-oriented approach.

Additional Information:

• This is a UK position and applications will only be accepted from current UK permanent employees (FoB and FCE employees only).
• The Company is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity for all and is opposed to any form of less favourable treatment or harassment on the grounds of race, religion or belief, sex, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or disability.
• This is a full-time role, however we are keen to encourage applications from applicants who work flexibly including job-share applicants, who would like to work with another job-share applicant to do this role (even if you currently do not have a job-share partner).
• The Job Share Connect tool allows you to create your profile and then find a job share match.
• This position is based in Dunton, and it is expected the successful candidate will be able to attend the Dunton office for typically 4 days a week and remain flexible on the days they are required to attend the office according to business requirements.