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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 as Vice President – Japan Markets Legal, you will be in charge of Legal risk management of a wide variety of transactional activity focusing primarily on the Japan Markets business on a pan-asset class basis, including fixed income, FX, fund, equity, prime and credit linked products, including cash, derivatives and structured notes as well as advising on regulatory compliance of global and local market regulations.
Job Responsibility
Legal risk management of a wide variety of transactional activity focusing primarily on the Japan Markets business on a pan-asset class basis, including fixed income, FX, fund, equity, prime and credit linked products, including cash, derivatives and structured notes as well as advising on regulatory compliance of global and local market regulations
Accountable for day-to-day, often real time, legal advice required to support the Japan Markets and other businesses
Supporting the development and maintenance of essential legal documentation including key templates used by the business
Accountable for structuring and regulatory treatment of, and drafting documentation for, Japan products and transactions
Managing external counsel in Japan including cost management of projects up to around USD 25,000
Supporting the review and risk analysis of new products and business proposals for the relevant Japan businesses
Shared responsibility for development of legal and compliance policy and procedures
Requirements
Pro-active team player
Able to keep updated on transaction progress and regulatory developments and elevate issues to the attention of appropriate interest groups internally
Demonstrate keen awareness and knowledge of wider risk and control environment (e.g. legal risk, conduct risk, reputational risk and operational risk)
Must have a genuine interest in this area of the law and demonstrate keen observation of topical developments in regulatory change and derivatives in Japan
Qualified Japanese or English law (or other common law jurisdictions) solicitor/attorney with material experience in capital markets / securitisation /derivatives at a recognized law firm and/or as an in-house counsel at a recognized financial institution (preferably both)
Highly conversant with structured notes, derivatives, lending and fund documentation
Qualified Japanese or English law (or other common law jurisdictions) solicitor/attorney with material experience in capital markets / securitisation /derivatives at a recognized law firm and/or as an in-house counsel at a recognized financial institution (preferably both)
Highly conversant with structured notes, derivatives, lending and fund documentation