Credit Lawyer (PBWM)

Join us as a Credit Lawyer in the Private Bank & Wealth Management (PBWM) Legal Team, where you will play a key role in providing transactional and advisory legal advice to the PBWM Credit business and supporting functions and stakeholders.

You will be point of contact for all parts of the Credit team, Credit Risk, Credit Operations and the PBWM business on all credit related legal matters. You will be supporting and managing credit transactions for a wide range of credit products (primarily Mortgages, Lombard Lending and LMA Facilities), together with supporting advisory matters, projects and regulatory change.

Essential Criteria:

• Experienced credit lawyer
• Strong knowledge and experience of unregulated credit transactions
• Experience of LMA facility transactions
• Working knowledge of key regulations applicable to credit (e.g. CONC/CCA, MCOB’s, MCD)
• Experience of lending to retail borrowers/consumers
• Having the ability to pivot multiple priorities concurrently in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent stakeholder management; specifically strong interpersonal and communication skills to work effectively as part of a team and build relationships with colleagues and stakeholders
• Strong commercial/business acumen and the ability to take a commercial approach (when appropriate)

Other highly valued criteria:

• Private Bank or Wealth Management experience
• Any regulated credit experience (CCA and/or MCOB's)
• Knowledge on multi option investment facilities. The main credit products are loans, overdrafts, mortgages (both regulated and unregulated), and Lombard lending facilities
• Experience in dealing with foreign counterparties and foreign law firms is preferred as borrowers are often from foreign jurisdictions (e.g. Middle East, Asia, Africa)
• Experience with jurisdictions in UK, Ireland, Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man 

Purpose of the role

To ensure that the activities in the Private Bank & Wealth Management division 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 to manage risk related to non-adherence of laws, rules and regulations.
• Legal advice and support to the bank's Private Bank & Wealth Management division on matters arising from the investment, credit and banking products/services provided by the Private Bank & Wealth Management division.
• Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to Private Bank & Wealth Management activities, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
• Creation and review of legal documents for the Private Bank & Wealth Management division to ensure the bank’s adherence with applicable laws, rules and regulations.  Maintaining and updating form legal documentation for the investment Private Bank & Wealth Management division.
• Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws and regulations that may impact the bank's Private Bank & Wealth Management activities.
• Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the Private Bank & Wealth Management division.
• 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.

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.