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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 Barclays US Fixed Income Derivatives Attorney (Director), you will be responsible for supporting Barclays International Markets businesses on all legal and regulatory matters related to fixed-income trading, with a primary focus on the Global Markets fixed income sales-and-trading businesses (Rates and FX) and the Risk Solutions Group. To ensure that the activities of the business units in the Markets division are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal risk associated with these activities.
Job Responsibility:
Identify issues and guide decision-making in connection with structuring transactions and advising on business initiatives
Act as a main point of contact to resolve and escalate legal and regulatory issues
Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies to manage compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations
Legal advice and support to the business units in the Markets division on matters arising from the relevant products/services provided by the Markets division
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
Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives
Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function
Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately
Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence
Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate
Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives
Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives
Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations
Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area
Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally
Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions
Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division
Requirements:
Minimum of 7 years of post-J.D. (or equivalent) experience at a law firm advising on relevant transactions or relevant experience in-house within the legal department of an investment bank
Extensive experience with and knowledge of fixed income markets in derivatives and cash products
Expert knowledge of the laws and regulations applicable to these markets, including post-financial crisis regulatory change as well as the U.S. Securities laws
A highly developed facility with complex structured transactions
Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to convey key legal concepts and regulatory and internal policy requirements to business and other internal stakeholders as well as to sophisticated counsel representing Barclays’ customers and clients
Strong interpersonal skills to facilitate positive colleague and client relationships and to ensure collaboration and respect among colleagues consistent with the Barclays Values