Professional Support Lawyer

Join us as a Professional Support Lawyer within Barclays UK (BUK) Legal. The BUK Legal team ensure the consumer banking activities of Barclays Bank UK PLC are conducted in compliance with all applicable laws rules and regulations (LRRs) and help the bank manage the legal and regulatory risks associated with those activities.

As the team’s Professional Support Lawyer and a member of the BUK Corporate Functions Legal team, you will be instrumental in helping the BUK Legal team manage legal risk by developing and implementing a laws, rules and regulations (LRRs) knowledge management strategy. You will also provide support to the BUK Legal team in advising and managing legal risk arising from new LRRs in compliance with applicable Barclays policies and standards.

To be successful in this role you will:

• be a qualified lawyer with financial regulatory experience;
• have an ability to navigate the FCA Handbook and PRA Rulebook and;
• have an understanding of working in a highly regulated financial institution.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• experience of ringfencing and the appointed representative regime and/or consumer banking products and regulation
• experience of matrix stakeholder management and briefings at a senior level

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role will be based in Glasgow.

Purpose of the role

To act as a professional support lawyer for the Barclays Bank UK (BUK) Legal team and to support the team in managing legal risk by developing and implementing a laws, rules and regulations (LRRs) knowledge management strategy aligned to the team’s objectives and supporting the team in advising and managing legal risk arising from new LLRs in compliance with applicable Barclays policies and standards. 

The BUK Legal team ensure the consumer banking activities are conducted in compliance with all appliable LRRs, and help the bank manage legal and regulatory risks associated with these activities.

Accountabilities

• Monitoring legal and market developments and advising the team on risk, trends and key changes
• Demonstrating, promoting and overseeing best practice for LRR knowledge capture, curation and dissemination
• Producing analysis and updates for internal briefings, coordinating input from across the team
• Designing and delivering and supporting team members in the preparation and delivery of training to the business
• Leading the development and delivery of the team’s LRR plan and strategy to support stakeholder priorities
• Collaboration with legal tech, innovation and project management teams to drive efficiencies
• Support the capture and sharing of knowhow across teams through platforms and process improvements
• Working closely with team members to co-ordinate Subject Matter Expertise (SME) input on deliverables to support the maintenance and development of a global LRR inventory
• Supporting team members in ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, relevant policies, standards and controls
• Close coordination with the Central Legal Team maintaining the global LRR inventory and with Risk and Compliance colleagues involved in the management of the legal risk framework
• Engaging with internal and external legal colleagues, business stakeholders and second line of defence.  

Vice President Expectations

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• 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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills 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.