Cash Management Lawyer AVP

We are looking for a junior lawyer to join the Cash Management Legal team at Barclays as an AVP Legal Counsel. This is a fantastic opportunity to build experience in a dynamic in-house legal environment supporting our cash management and payments business.

The role is part of a collaborative and high-performing team that provides legal support to the Corporate Banking division. You will be working closely with more senior lawyers and business stakeholders to help facilitate the delivery of strategic and day-to-day initiatives across the cash management product suite.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support senior legal counsel in providing legal advice on cash management products and services.
• Assist with reviewing, drafting, and negotiating standard form agreements and supporting documentation (e.g. cash management agreements, service contracts).
• Carry out legal research and assist with analysing regulatory changes and their potential impact on the business.
• Help coordinate and track the implementation of legal input on product developments, regulatory projects, and operational changes.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in legal, compliance, risk, and product teams.
• Escalate complex or high-risk matters to senior lawyers, contributing to risk assessments and mitigation strategies.

Essential Criteria:

• Qualified lawyer (UK or equivalent)
• A keen interest in the financial services sector, particularly in payments and digital banking.
• Willingness to learn and grow within a fast-paced, evolving legal and regulatory landscape.
• Strong foundational understanding of contract law and regulatory frameworks relevant to payments and banking.
• Ability to draft and review legal documentation with attention to detail and appropriate oversight.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and meet deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a collaborative, team-focused approach.
• Confident communicator with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at different levels.

This fulltime, permanent role can be based in Birmingham, Glasgow or Manchester.

Purpose of the role

To ensure that the activities of the corporate banking division related to the role’s relevant product set are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with these activities. 

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies related to the role’s relevant product set, to manage risk related to non-adherence to laws, rules and regulations.
• Subject matter legal advice and support to the Bank's corporate and investment banking divisions globally on a wide range of transactions and projects across trade and working capital finance, cash management, real estate finance, project finance, asset backed finance, lending and other corporate loan finance.
• Subject matter legal advice and support to the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions, including areas such as credit, compliance, risk, product management, tax, finance, fraud, transaction management, structuring and execution, litigation, commercial contract support, and operations, often in close collaboration with other legal teams across departments and jurisdictions.
• Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to the role’s relevant product set, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
• Creation and/or review of legal documents for the relevant product set to ensure the bank’s adherence with applicable laws, rules and regulations. Maintaining and updating legal documentation related to the role’s related product set for the corporate banking division.
• Development and delivery of training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the role’s relevant product set.
• 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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.