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This Vice President role sits within the Secured Regulated Lending Legal team, which is part of the wider BUK Consumer Products legal team. The team is responsible for legal advice and legal risk management, acting as trusted advisors supporting business areas providing regulated mortgage contracts and retail buy to let mortgages (incl. BUK Mortgages and Private Bank). You will work in a friendly and passionate team of regulatory experts. Purpose of the role: To ensure that the consumer banking activities are conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and regulatory risks associated with these activities.
Job Responsibility:
Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance
Proactive consumer banking Legal advice and support to the consumer banking division of the bank on a wide range of legal issues, including regulatory compliance, regulatory change management, consumer protection, and risk management
Representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to consumer banking, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory enquiry and investigations
Creation and periodic review of Legal documents in accordance with contractual arrangements policy 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 consumer banking operations
Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to consumer banking
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:
Be a UK qualified or other commonwealth qualified lawyer and a consumer product regulatory expert with a proven track record of using these skills in an advisory capacity to oversee key product and proposition innovation and simplification
Have experience of advising on mortgages or retail lending
Have strong communication skills and ability to build relationships
You may be assessed on the 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