Senior Corporate Counsel - Financial Services Legal Team in City of Westminster

Oracle's Financial Services Legal team is a specialist group in the company's Legal Department that delivers strategic legal advice relating to financial services regulatory matters that affect Oracle and its customers. The team is global in scope and its responsibilities include monitoring, analyzing and advising on regulatory developments, responding to regulatory proposals and consultations, supporting the implementation of regulatory-driven operational and policy changes, advising on the regulatory implications of new services models, and addressing regulatory matters arising in the context of Oracle's sales, marketing and transactional activities. Through this work, the team plays a key role in advancing Oracle's commercial objectives while managing its risks and maintaining its commitment to legal and regulatory compliance.

Top-Tier Senior Corporate Counsel position created in response to developments in the regulatory landscape that affect service providers in the financial services space, such as the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the UK's Critical Third Party (CTP) regime. In this role, you will provide senior-level support to Oracle in its compliance journey by helping to design and implement frameworks, policies and processes that will enable the company to meet its obligations under applicable regulations while managing its risk, partner with internal stakeholders at all levels of the organization, serve as a trusted advisor, and oversee and shape Oracle's engagement and relationships with regulators.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice to the organization and close liaison to business in providing a variety of corporate and commercial legal services;
• Potentially perform litigation on Oracle's behalf or coordinate litigation and other legal, administrative or investigative actions handled by outside counsel;
• Draft, review and negotiate major and/or non-standard technology contracts with public and private sector customers, including licensing agreements, professional services agreements and cloud services agreements;
• Advise on legal issues involving government and regulatory compliance and respond to ad-hoc queries, including identification, analysis and evaluation of risks to provide appropriate legal solutions;
• Work closely with other lawyers throughout Oracle and coordinate legal matters handled by outside lawyers and demonstrate deep general commercial or functional knowledge across a wide range of sub-disciplines within the individual's specialty area(s) (e.g., general corporate law, antitrust/competition law, securities compliance and regulatory, employment law, immigration law, cloud transactions, data privacy, risk management asset-backed financing, contract management, intellectual property, trade secrets, advertising law, registration and other resolutions specific to the computer and technology industry).

Qualifications

• Practicing lawyer with 8-10 years of relevant post-qualification experience gained at a top-tier law firm or in-house legal department;
• Expertise in regulatory frameworks that affect services providers to the financial services industry, such as DORA and the UK CTP regime;
• Experience in dealing with regulators and managing regulatory supervision;
• Experience in developing and implementing compliance frameworks;
• Knowledge of the technology sector;
• Excellent communication skills, diligent and attentive to detail;
• Self-motivated, adaptable and commercially minded.

Benefits

Competitive benefits supporting our people with flexible medical, life insurance and retirement options. Oracle also encourages employees to give back to their communities through volunteer programs.