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Legal Counsel

Location

United Kingdom

Posted

7 days ago

Salary

0

Seniority

Mid Level

No structured requirement data.

Job Description

Legal Counsel

RBS

Role Description Join us as a Legal Counsel in our Secured Lending & Financial Health & Support Legal team. This is an excellent opportunity to deliver the legal strategy and provide expert, accurate, and cost-effective legal advice to our Home Ownership & Financial Health & Support businesses, and more broadly in relation to secured consumer lending matters. Your role will sit within our Retail & Private Banking Legal team, so we’ll need you to have an understanding of associated legal and regulatory issues. You’ll be recognised as a strategic thinker and an expert in your field, and you’ll be exposed to stakeholders across the bank and externally. We're offering this position for a period of 12 months. What you'll do - Manage and coordinate the delivery of legal advice, supporting our Retail Banking and Private Banking & Wealth Management businesses. - Work closely with stakeholders and legal and regulatory colleagues to ensure timely, effective, and efficient delivery of all issues, projects, and initiatives. - Ensure that legal advice is readily understandable to non-lawyers, delivered within relevant timescales, and manages and minimises legal and regulatory risks. - Deliver continuous improvement in operating practices and processes, including identifying efficiencies, improvements, and opportunities to reduce costs. - Provide communication of internal and external legal advice and help deliver transactions and projects to stakeholders in a commercial, user-friendly, and efficient manner. - Manage legal costs through the use of e-billing, auctions, and other cost tools, driving a culture of disciplined cost management and controls. Qualifications - UK qualified with experience of providing legal, regulatory, and commercial advice in relation to transactions and projects in-house or in a leading UK law firm. - In-depth knowledge of general banking law and practice. - Expertise in the UK regulatory environment relating to secured consumer lending (particularly MCOB) and consumer financial regulation generally. - Understanding of the UK consumer mortgage market and the financial services industry. - Ability to establish and maintain strong relationships across the bank. Requirements - Knowledge of Retail & Private Banking business activities and the commercial environment within which they operate. - Experience of working with leading law firms and other professional advisers and consultants. - Ability to keep up to date with and share relevant legal and market developments. - Experience in delivering change from a legal or regulatory perspective. Benefits - Remote First working environment. - 35 hours work week.

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