Senior Legal Counsel

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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