Senior Lawyer (Pensions) Group Corporate Treasury (12 FTC)

Senior Lawyer (Pensions) Group Corporate Treasury (12 FTC)

Apply locations: London, 25 Gresham Street; Edinburgh, New Uberior House; Head Office, Halifax, Trinity Road; Bristol, Harbourside; Leeds, Wellington Place.

End Date: Thursday 23 January 2025

Salary Range: £121,202 – £142,590

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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary:

Group Legal has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Pensions Lawyer to join the Group Corporate Treasury legal team on a secondment for 6 months. The role will support Group pensions matters and related transactions and require the delivery of high-quality legal and strategic advice, guidance, and support to a range of partners within the Group, operating as a senior SME, within a supportive and collegiate team.

You’ll provide specialist legal support to GCT Pensions and People & Places. GCT manages the Group’s balance sheet and capital to support our Group strategy. The work we do has genuine breadth and variety. Examples of areas we support include:

• Strategic and technical advice to senior management and executives across the various business areas of the Group dealing with Group pensions matters.
• Negotiate with the Trustee advisers in relation to the schemes and external counsel in relation to corporate transactions and restructurings.
• The Group’s governance processes in respect of decisions relating to the Group’s pension liabilities.
• Pension documentation including pension scheme rules and supplementary deeds, scheme booklets, product terms, funding documentation, settlement agreements, correspondence with members, court documents.
• Correspondence with the Pensions Regulator, the Pensions Ombudsman, and the PRA.
• Reviewing media and company-related statements.
• Corporate programmes/projects and products.
• Pension-related disputes/complaints and litigation in conjunction with the Group’s litigation specialists.

What we need from you!

You’ll need a current UK legal practicing certificate to qualify for this role, with ideally 5+ years’ PQE.

We’re also looking for these key attributes:

• Experienced in providing commercially focused advice on complex transactions and occupational pensions law, strategy, and governance.
• Knowledge of the wider legal and regulatory environment, ideally with a good understanding of the regulatory landscape for occupational pension schemes.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, adept at prioritising in a fast-paced high-impact environment, willing to be agile and resilient.
• Builds effective relationships and partners collaboratively in and across teams; able to work independently.
• Impactful communication and influencing skills; emotional intelligence; comfortable to speak up and challenge when needed.
• Creativity, innovation, critical thinking, a “growth mindset,” and passion to learn and broaden skills; self-aware, uses feedback to inform areas for development.
• Demonstrates leadership skills or potential, our values and behaviours, promotes diversity and inclusivity and shares our Purpose.

About working for us:

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. It’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual discretionary performance-related bonus.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 Days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Want to do outstanding work that makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper.

We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.

About Us

For over 320 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. With us, you’ll be helping Britain prosper.

You’ll be part of an ever-changing industry, playing a key role in shaping the financial services of the future whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs.

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