Paralegal jobs in United Kingdom
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Product Legal Counsel, Borrowing
Job summary
A leading bank in the UK is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to advise on mortgage and consumer finance products. The role requires at least 5 years of post-qualification experience in banking and finance. You will ensure compliance with legislation, collaborate across teams, and manage external legal relationships. The position offers a competitive salary around £100,000, stock options, and benefits like a £1,000 learning budget and comprehensive health support.
Benefits
Qualifications
- 5+ years post-qualification experience in banking and finance.
- Strong background advising on mortgages, credit, and other financial products.
- Proven knowledge of CCA, MCOBS and financial promotions.
Responsibilities
- Advise on legal aspects of borrowing products.
- Ensure compliance with financial legislation.
- Manage legal matters with compliance, risk, and internal teams.
Skills
Education
Senior Legal Counsel - Product (Borrowing) reporting to the Director of Legal, Products. The role is central to building and delivering mortgage and consumer finance products, providing first-rate legal advice to Monzo's Borrowing collective.
- Work with product managers, engineers and senior lawyers to advise on legal and regulatory aspects of borrowing products.
- Provide advice on mortgage, credit card, loan, overdraft and business lending products, ensuring compliance with CCA, MCOBS and other financial legislation.
- Support incident and query handling for consumer credit compliance and financial difficulty matters.
- Collaborate with compliance, risk, operations and other internal teams to coordinate legal matters.
- Deliver training and knowledge sharing sessions across the organisation.
- Act autonomously as the senior legal advisor on product changes, proactively identifying risks and shaping policy.
- Build a scalable, high-performing legal function, experimenting with new ways of working and technology solutions.
- Manage relationships with external suppliers and law firms, driving cost optimisation.
- Minimum 5 years post-qualification experience in banking and finance, with a focus on mortgages and consumer finance.
- Strong background advising on regulatory and commercial matters for banking products; proven knowledge of CCA, MCOBS and financial promotions.
- Experience drafting customer-facing terms, credit agreements and regulatory compliance documents.
- Excellent communication, organisational, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Proactive risk-aware mindset with ability to drive commercial solutions.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, constantly evolving setting.
- Passion for the intersection of banking and technology.
- Competitive salary of circa £100,000 k + stock options.
- Remote-flexible work arrangements and 4-week annual leave.
- Relocation support to the UK.
- Learning budget of £1,000 per year for books, courses and conferences.
- Comprehensive health, disability and pension benefits.
- Many more perks - see full list of benefits.
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