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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. As a Structured Products EME Advisory Lawyer, you will provide legal advice and support to the business units within the Markets division, focusing on matters arising in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria related to the products and services offered by the German and Swiss Structured Notes Teams.
Job Responsibility:
Provide legal advice and support to the business units within the Markets division, focusing on matters arising in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria related to the products and services offered by the German and Swiss Structured Notes Teams
Regular engagement with regulatory authorities
Collaboration with external law firms
Close cooperation with front office colleagues, business managers, and legal and business teams across departments such as Treasury and Wealth
Support both automation and manual drafting teams
Oversee programme updates
Ensure that the activities of the business units in the Markets division are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations
Help the bank manage legal risk associated with these activities
Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies to manage compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations
Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to the Markets business units such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations
Creation and review of legal documents for the business units in the Markets division to ensure the bank’s compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations
Maintaining and updating template legal documentation for the Markets division
Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in applicable laws, rules and regulations that may impact the activities of the bank's Markets business units
Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the activities of the Markets business units
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:
A qualified German lawyer with experience in a top-tier private practice
Preferably with prior in-house experience at a leading financial institution, ideally within the Markets Division
Subject Matter Expert (SME) with extensive experience in Structured Products, particularly those sold indirectly to retail investors in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria
Excellent drafting skills of Structured Products documentation, including Base Prospectuses and Final Terms
Fluency in German language is required
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, complex, and multi-dimensional environment
A strong commercial acumen with a keen interest in performance drivers and a passion for continuous improvement
Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying highly technical qualitative analysis and advice clearly and concisely to both legal and non-legal audiences, both orally and in writing
What we offer:
Wellness rooms
On-site cafeterias
Fitness centers
Tech-equipped workstations
Hybrid working
Structured approach to hybrid working with fixed 'anchor' days