Legal Counsel – Cash Management
London
As a Barclays Legal Counsel in the Cash Management team, you will be managing and mitigating legal risk, proactively identifying legal risks, achieving business objectives, escalating to senior stakeholders and recommending and implementing solutions within the relevant business teams. You will also support the cash management product team and other corporate banking infrastructure teams involved in the development of new products and support of existing, cash management products in Corporate Banking.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive, and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
Working Flexibly
We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognizes and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager, and your request will be reviewed subject to business needs.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager
What will you be doing?
• Managing, prioritising and completing workload within required timescales
- Complying with internal policies, and escalating risks (legal, compliance, operational), breaches and transaction level issues
- Gaining and maintaining knowledge or market practice and regulatory environment generally, with particular focus on developments impacting Cash Management
- Delivering training to the business and infrastructure functions
- Helping to make existing processes more efficient
- Maintaining standard forms, precedents and templates
- Providing assistance on projects, including remediation matters
- Assisting colleagues in the Cash Management Legal Team and colleagues in other legal teams, including overseas
What we’re looking for:
• Experienced qualified lawyer with good academic record
- Familiarity with relevant financial services products and applicable regulations and able to apply judgment
- Ability to manage senior stakeholder relationships and act as a strategic advisor
- Excellent communication and influencing skills – verbal and written (technical and non-technical)
Skills that will help you in the role:
• Knowledge of cash management products and applicable legislation, including the Payment Services Regulations
- Time management, prioritization and multi-tasking skills essential and commercial focus
- Ability to work as part of a team and also independently with limited supervision
- Willingness to undertake varied tasks and expand knowledge into other areas
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
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