Legal Counsel General Commercial

About The Role

Purpose
Reporting to the General Counsel, effective legal risk management in line with the Group’s risk profile and financial and strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, negotiate and advise on Group contracts (including standard form terms and conditions) in line with business objectives, as well as regulatory and operational requirements.
• Legal Team lead on Group terms and conditions and associated regulatory and client considerations.
• Advise and support Risk & Compliance and business unit teams, including day to day advice on queries, legal deliverables for projects and contribution to committees and working groups as required.
• Maintain knowledge on all Group services and Products and offerings, and relevant regulatory matters.
• Take accountability for own work and its accuracy.
• Identify and escalate issues to relevant parties and suggest solutions for resolution.
• Ensure timescales for legal deliverables are consistently maintained, completing tasks in a timely manner and prioritising effectively.
• Maintain complete and clear records and audit trail of version control, advice and issue resolution. Contribute as a Legal team member to ensuring the integrity of the Group contracts repository and matter management data.
• Identify opportunities to support and share knowledge with others to enhance delivery of legal services.
• Assist team members as required and work effectively with colleagues.
• Complete tasks as requested to support team activities and achievement of business objectives.
• While not directly interacting with customers, your actions should align with upholding the FCA\’s Consumer Duty principles, thereby contributing to fair and beneficial outcomes for our clients.
• Developing strong working relationships with all stakeholders in the business, working closely with Corporate Strategy team, and Risk and Compliance.

About You
Knowledge and experience

• Excellent commercial lawyer with expertise in contract law; solid experience including customer terms.
• Experience with working on employment matters desirable.
• Prior relevant industry experience and knowledge of FCA regulatory framework for retail investment advice, platform and SIPP products and services highly desirable.
• Proficient in use of Microsoft Office (especially Word) features.
• Working with and training other teams (including legal professionals).

Skills

• Core contract review, drafting, negotiating and advice skillset: adapts review proportionately; identifies and escalates risks appropriately; proposes mitigation options; ensures highest standards of drafting; confident with complex drafting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills: clear, concise, tailored for relevant audience.
• Strong analytical skills. Verifies against drafting and other relevant information sources.
• Plans, anticipates and manages issues and progress to achieve timelines and objectives.
• Challenges robustly as necessary.
• Solution-oriented. Proactive and pragmatic in risk and stakeholder management.
• Highly organised. Able to manage and report on competing priorities under pressure effectively.
• Consistently demonstrates procedure adherence, accuracy, attention to detail and thoroughness.

Qualifications

• UK qualified solicitor with strong academic background.
• At least 7 years post qualification experience.

Other relevant information

• As part of a small Legal team, flexible and adaptive.
• Displays understanding of client and colleague needs. Applies skills and expertise to achieve desired outcomes.
• Takes responsibility for developing links to wider team.
• Enthusiastic, professional, highly motivated team player. Strives for continuous improvement.
• Culture carrier of 7IM vision, purpose, values and personality.

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