Debt Advisory Lawyer Job at Barclays (Pune)

Job Description

Join the Legal team to protect Barclays, its employees, and its brands while ensuring global competitiveness and compliance with legal standards. Your responsibilities will include risk mitigation, managing strategic transactions, and overseeing business contracts. As a Debt Advisory Lawyer you will sit within the Debt Advisory Legal team, which is part of the wider Corporate Banking Legal team. The team is responsible for legal advice and legal risk management, acting as trusted advisors supporting business areas providing unregulated, primarily templated, lending across UK Corporate Bank and International Corporate Banking. You will work in a friendly and passionate team as a debt legal expert, advising on corporate/business lending transactions, using your advisory skills to oversee key product and proposition innovation & simplification within debt. Additionally, you will use this experience to proactively identify new and emerging legal and regulatory risks, providing consistently excellent advice and guidance to your stakeholders, supported by clear rationale and justification.

Job Responsibility

Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance
Legal advice and support to the bank's country coverage teams on a wide range of legal issues, including regulatory compliance, risk management, project management and transactional matters
Representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to its operations in the country or region, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations
Creation and review of legal documents such as loan agreements, security documents, and other financing documents to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations
Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws and regulations that may impact the bank's operations in the country or region
Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the bank's operations in the country or region
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

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in law
Experience in corporate lending (term loans, revolving credit facilities and overdrafts) is strongly preferred
Excellent communication and stakeholder skills as you would be dealing with various stakeholders within Legal and other areas of the bank
Excellent prioritization and multitasking skills
you are able to efficiently manage a busy inbox and handle multiple queries simultaneously
Ability to assess documentation templates, current processes, systems or approvals and provide workable solutions/alternatives, whether to stakeholders or within the team
Experience in managing projects within a clearly defined framework with an emphasis on strong commercial management alongside quality and timely legal deliverables
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

What we offer

Hybrid working
Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed, ‘anchor’, days onsite
Supportive and inclusive culture and environment
Commitment to flexible working arrangements
Opportunity to embrace mobility and explore every part of our operations as you build your career

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