Overview
Barclays Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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This role can be based in Glasgow, Manchester or Birmingham.
Responsibilities
* As a Barclays Corporate Banking Lawyer VP, you will be a member of Loans and Portfolio Management Legal, supporting the Bank’s lending businesses across Investment Bank, International Corporate Banking and UK Corporate Bank from an origination, execution, distribution and asset management perspective. The role involves advising on a mix of complex and vanilla loan transactions and financing structures as well more broadly in connection with the execution of the strategic priorities of the Legal function and the firm.
* Provide subject matter legal advice and support to the Bank's corporate and investment banking divisions globally on a wide range of transactions and projects across trade and working capital finance, cash management, real estate finance, project finance, asset backed finance, lending and other corporate loan finance.
* Provide subject matter support to the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions, including areas such as credit, compliance, risk, product management, tax, finance, fraud, transaction management, structuring and execution, litigation, commercial contract support, and operations, often in close collaboration with other legal teams across departments and jurisdictions.
* Support the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to the role’s relevant product set, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
* Create and/or review legal documents for the relevant product set to ensure the bank’s adherence with applicable laws, rules and regulations; maintain and update legal documentation related to the role’s product set for the corporate banking division.
* Develop and deliver training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the role’s relevant product set.
* Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area and ensuring that LRRs are reflected within the relevant policies, standards and controls.
Qualifications
* Qualified Solicitor in England and Wales, with a track record of leading on loan financing transactions in the investment and corporate banking space.
* Good knowledge of the LMA documentation and loan market positions.
* Ability to navigate through the regulatory and compliance landscape.
* Ability to manage business stakeholders of different levels of experience.
* Some Other Highly Valued Skills May Include
* Period of time with a magic or silver circle firm with a global practice.
* Knowledge of various markets from a financing perspective (property, telecoms, utilities, project, infrastructure as well as general corporate).
* In-house legal experience
Key skills and success factors
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
Purpose of the role
To ensure that the activities of the corporate banking division related to the role’s relevant product set are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with these activities.
Accountabilities
* Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies related to the role’s relevant product set, to manage risk related to non-adherence to laws, rules and regulations.
* Subject matter legal advice and support to the Bank's corporate and investment banking divisions globally on a wide range of transactions and projects across trade and working capital finance, cash management, real estate finance, project finance, asset backed finance, lending and other corporate loan finance.
* Subject matter support to the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions, including areas such as credit, compliance, risk, product management, tax, finance, fraud, transaction management, structuring and execution, litigation, commercial contract support, and operations, often in close collaboration with other legal teams across departments and jurisdictions.
* Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to the role’s relevant product set, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
* Creation and/or review of legal documents for the relevant product set to ensure the bank’s adherence with applicable laws, rules and regulations; maintaining and updating legal documentation related to the role’s related product set for the corporate banking division.
* Development and delivery of training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the role’s relevant product set.
* Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.
Vice President Expectations
* To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
* If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. May lead specialists to influence operations, while balancing short and long-term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
* Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: Listen and be authentic; Energise and inspire; Align across the enterprise; Develop others.
* For an individual contributor, act as a subject matter expert within own discipline, lead collaborative, multi-year assignments, guide team members, train and coach less experienced specialists, and provide information affecting long term profits and strategic decisions.
* Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
* Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
* Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
* Demonstrate understanding of the organisation’s functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
* Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support; stay up to speed with business activity and strategies.
* Create solutions based on analytical thinking to compare and select complex alternatives; engage in problem solving and long-term thinking.
* Adopt and include outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
* Build and maintain trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Finance and Sales
Industries
* Banking and Financial Services
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