Legal Counsel – Business Banking Product and Fraud & Scams VP

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. You’ll play a central role in shaping the future of Business Banking products and leading the charge against fraud and scams across Barclays UK (BUK). You’ll be a trusted advisor providing high‑quality legal advice and proactive legal risk management across Business Banking non‑lending products and propositions and leading legal support for Fraud & Scams matters across BUK. You’ll provide end‑to‑end legal support on fraud and scams (including APP scams), spanning strategy, investigations, customer remediation and policy/claims frameworks. You’ll drive innovation through support to product, operations and control teams – helping to shape strategy, simplify propositions, and strengthening fraud and scams prevention and remediation frameworks. You’ll carry out horizon-scanning of evolving regulatory and industry developments to ensure Barclays remains ahead of emerging risks. You’ll advise on product innovation, simplification, product launch/change/withdrawal and customer journeys, ensuring regulatory compliance and robust legal risk rationale. You’ll collaborate and influence in contract drafting and negotiation and you’ll partner with other brilliant legal colleagues across the function on cross-bank legal challenges.