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Level 6 Project Management apprenticeship
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Senior Legal Counsel
Work Model
📍 Reading, England
Employment
💼 Full-Time Direct
Recruitment Type
🛡️ Direct to HR Pipeline
Role Overview & Responsibilities
Job Description
Role: Senior Legal Counsel
Type: Permanent
Location: Reading/ Green Park Hybrid
Role summary
We are looking for a specialist regulatory retail financial services lawyer to join our financial services legal team.
This is an opportunity to work for a leader in the world of mobile technology in an ambitious culture and a busy environment. Lawyers are regarded as trusted advisors and business partners to the teams they support, working in an open, engaged and customer focused culture.
Responsibility
- Advising on all aspects related to the development of FCA regulated credit products.
- Advising on and assisting with product development and design, including financial promotions, marketing, sales journeys, and servicing of products.
- Advising on and assisting with the development of relevant organisational policies required for FCA regulated credit products.
- Advising on and assisting with the development of relevant processes for the end-to-end product lifecycle.
- Drafting consumer contracts and other associated legal and regulatory communications.
- Providing Risk and Incident management legal support.
- Advising on the implementation of changes to law and regulation.
- Managing external law firms and legal spend.
- Working at pace within an agile environment.
- Working with stakeholders across the Business and building good relationships.
Experience Required:
- Minimum of 3 years PQE.
- Must have retail finance background
- Knowledge and experience of the law and regulation of consumer lending and FCA policy and regulation of retail financial services and products.
- Comfortable advising on all aspects of the FCA handbook.
- Knowledge and experience in insurance distribution is desirable.
- Strong advisory and drafting skills.
- Proactive and practical - actively takes initiative and focuses on solutions/business outcomes and with a "can do" problem-solving attitude
- Constructive and consultative team player with good communication skills with an ability to communicate with, and influence people at all levels (internally and externally) in a clear, succinct, and persuasive way
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