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Legal Counsel Regulatory

United Kingdom, Northampton · Job Posted May 27, 2026
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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. Join our Corporate Functions & Regulatory Legal team within Barclays UK, where we provide strategic legal partnering and oversight to a broad range of Barclays UK head-office functions, including the Chief Operating Office, Finance, Treasury, Risk, Compliance and the Board/CEO Office. Corporate Functions & Regulatory Legal plays a central role in helping Barclays UK meet its regulatory obligations and strategic objectives. The team: Advises on entity-level laws, rules and regulations for Barclays UK, including those relating to ring-fencing, appointed representatives, FSCS, Consumer Duty, and ESG. Provides specialist regulatory support to the wider Legal function and collaborates closely with Group Centre Legal teams advising Barclays UK. Identifies, interprets and implements regulatory change affecting BUK and the broader Group. Supports Barclays UK on horizon scanning, strategic initiatives, transformation programmes and complex regulatory projects.

Job Responsibility

  • Risk mitigation
  • managing strategic transactions
  • overseeing business contracts
  • 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)

Requirements

  • A qualified lawyer with experience advising on UK financial regulation
  • Confident navigating the FCA Handbook and PRA Rulebook
  • Familiar with working in a highly regulated financial services environment, delivering clear, risk-aware and solutions-focused legal advice
  • Comfortable advising at pace and able to upskill quickly on new legal and regulatory issues and concepts, applying judgement in areas that evolve rapidly

Nice to have

  • Detailed knowledge of ring-fencing legislation and related governance requirements
  • Experience advising on consumer banking products and relevant regulatory frameworks

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