Treasury Solicitor in Preston

At Places for People, we hire People, not numbers. We look for someone who embodies our People Promises: doing the right thing, being enthusiastic and motivated to grow, fostering community spirit, and working respectfully. As the UK's leading Social Enterprise, we are dedicated to creating inclusive and thriving communities for customers and employees.

More About Your Role

You will work closely with the Treasury, Tax and Legal leadership teams to provide specialist legal support across treasury and wider group finance activities. You will take a lead role on banking and financing arrangements, working with external lawyers, lenders and internal stakeholders to deliver complex transactions including loan agreements, bond programmes and refinancing activity. You will manage key relationships with banks, trustees and legal partners, ensuring compliance with loan agreements and regulatory requirements. You'll also lead on securitisation and property-related legal work, including security releases, portfolio transactions and Land Registry processes. You will provide strategic legal advice on treasury initiatives, supporting high-value decisions and continuous improvement of legal processes. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you'll act as a trusted adviser across the business, supporting internal lending arrangements, maintaining security documentation and contributing to wider legal and treasury projects.

Essential Criteria

• Qualified Solicitor with post-qualification experience
• Proven experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating loan agreements and banking documentation (including ISDA and CSA)
• Demonstrable experience advising on complex financial or treasury-related transactions and mitigating legal risk
• Experience working with banks, external legal advisors and multiple stakeholders on financing arrangements
• Strong experience managing legal documentation and compliance within lending or treasury environments

More About You

You are a proactive and experienced legal professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. You are confident operating independently, managing competing priorities and delivering high-quality outcomes to tight deadlines. You build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and bring a commercial mindset to your legal advice. You are comfortable working across finance and legal teams, and you take pride in providing clear, practical guidance that supports business objectives while maintaining compliance and legal integrity.

Benefits

We are a large, diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for. We offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, including:

• Competitive salary with regular annual review
• Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
• Bonus scheme for colleagues at 2%
• 35 days holiday (including bank holiday) with option to buy or sell days
• Healthcare cashback plan for everyday medical costs up to £500 savings per year
• Access to wellbeing support such as counselling and flu jabs
• Private GP and health support services available
• Access to a rewards platform with retail and lifestyle discounts
• Savings on groceries, travel, shopping and home products
• Ongoing training and development opportunities
• Access to professional qualifications and career progression
• Internal development programmes and learning support
• Recognition schemes such as Star Awards and Colleagues Awards
• Strong focus on inclusion, wellbeing and colleague engagement
• Free membership to Places Gyms

What’s next?

If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career, apply through our simple 5-minute application process. Upload a CV and a supporting statement demonstrating how you meet the requirements of the role. If you have any questions, please email the recruitment team.

As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we offer a guaranteed interview to candidates who are disabled, neurodiverse, or have served in the Armed Forces, provided you meet the essential criteria for the role. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, please indicate this in your application.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview experience, please let us know. We’re happy to work with you to ensure you have the opportunity to perform at your best.

If you are a Places for People customer and you’re looking for support with your application, please contact our skills and employment team. Please note that we may bring the closing date forward if we receive a high volume of quality applications. If you are interested, apply immediately to avoid disappointment.

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We understand the importance of a supportive and inclusive work culture. Talk to us at interview about flexibility you may need. We can discuss reduced hours, flexible start and finish times, or compressed hours.

If you are a recruitment agency, please note we operate a PSL and do not take cold calls.

Safeguarding and Diversity Statements

Safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse and neglect. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment. By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.

Armed Forces: We guarantee an interview for any candidate who is serving or has formerly served in the Armed Forces, as a reservist, armed forces veteran (including the wounded, injured and sick), cadet instructor and military spouse/partner who meets the essential criteria for the vacancy.

Disability Confident: We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview. The Equality Act 2010 defines a disabled person as someone with a physical or mental impairment that has substantial and long-term negative effects on daily activities.

Neurodivergent: Neurodiverse applicants who meet the criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview.