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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 Barclays as a Netting Lawyer VP, where you will have the chance to join the Netting Team in Markets Legal as a junior-to-mid level VP. Within the Markets Legal team, you will redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions.
Job Responsibility:
Provide senior legal support to the global Markets business
Advise on multi-faceted legal matters impacting Barclays’ trading activities worldwide
Identify, assess, and guide the management of legal and reputational risks associated with the bank’s trading relationships and transactions
Analyze the enforceability of close-out netting and collateral arrangements
Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies
Legal advice and support to business units in the Markets division
Subject matter support in legal proceedings
Creation and review of legal documents
Legal research and analysis
Developing and delivering training programmes
Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice
Requirements:
Experience as a qualified lawyer with knowledge gained in private practice and/or in-house (c.5-8 years post-qualification experience considered)
Ability to identify and communicate legal and commercial risks within the framework of the firm’s governance and risk policies
Prior knowledge and experience of one or more of the following: derivatives and securities financing master trading agreements, bankruptcy/insolvency law, regulatory capital requirements
Nice to have:
Ability to be effective in a fast-paced and multi-dimensional environment
Ability to communicate highly detailed legal and qualitative information in a clear and concise manner
Being comfortable delivering advice effectively to both legal and non-legal stakeholders
Having a deep interest in the drivers of performance and passion for improving things
What we offer:
Wellness center with fitness centres and classes
Health center providing primary and urgent care, wellness exams, health coaching, and vaccinations
Variety of sophisticated dining options
Hybrid working
Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed 'anchor' days