At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide legal support for innovative liquidity products and services in a dynamic banking environment.
- Company: Leading Commercial & Investment bank with a focus on payments and liquidity solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, professional development, and opportunities to work on cutting-edge financial products.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with opportunities for career growth and involvement in strategic projects.
- Why this job: Join a forward-thinking team and make a real impact in the evolving payments landscape.
- Qualifications: Qualified lawyer with 8+ years of experience in financial services and strong legal skills.
The predicted salary is between 100000 - 150000 £ per year.
In the Legal Team, you will provide legal advisory and transactional support to the liquidity products and services sub‐vertical within its Payments business in Europe, the Middle‐East and Africa (EMEA). The Payments business operates across multiple jurisdictions in the EMEA region and its principal activities include:
- Liquidity & Account Services, such as cash concentration, notional pooling, liquidity management accounts.
- Treasury Services, such as speciality accounts, FX, payment rails, commercial cards.
- Digital & Design, which includes products such as Blockchain Deposits, proprietary digital deposit tokens and tokenized assets services.
- Trade & Working Capital, which includes structured trade, core trade, export finance, risk distribution.
- Merchant acquiring and related services.
Job Responsibilities:
- Providing product‐aligned legal support and advice to the liquidity services businesses, advising on a wide range of product‐specific queries, non‐transactional matters (including conducting legal due diligence and drafting form contracts for new business) and product initiatives.
- Assisting in the documentation, negotiation and execution of liquidity transactions, in accordance with policies, procedures and regulatory requirements.
- Working on group projects and initiatives and identifying and advising on related legal and regulatory issues and developments.
- Pro‐actively supporting the EMEA business with all necessary legal queries and acting as a trusted advisor to relevant business stakeholders.
- Building relationships with stakeholders and navigating the organization to assist the business in meeting its targets, while mitigating risk on behalf of the Bank.
- Being an active contributor to the Legal Department, participating in department‐wide projects and contributing to our strategic priorities.
Required qualifications, skills and capabilities:
- Qualified lawyer with 8+ years of post‐qualification legal experience in England and Wales (or qualifications in another common‐law jurisdiction), and relevant experience gained at an international law firm and/or leading financial institution.
- Experience in cash management, treasury services and liquidity products specifically, is critical.
- Strong drafting, negotiation and legal analytical skills with strong attention to detail.
- Strong working understanding of regulatory matters affecting the payments businesses.
- Pragmatic, with ability to strike an appropriate balance between achieving the commercial goals of the business while protecting the interests of the bank as a whole.
- Confident and proactive with excellent communication skills.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, project‐manage and coordinate large projects in a dynamic global environment.
- Ability to work independently on complex transactions, escalating key issues where necessary.
- Must be a qualified lawyer licensed to practice law and a member in good standing or otherwise eligible to work as an in‐house lawyer in England.
Commercial & Investment bank – Payments Lawyer – Vice President in London employer: J.P. Morgan
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