Professional Support Lawyer (Investment Banking)

Join us as a Professional Support Lawyer for the EMEA Investment Banking (IBK) Legal team. The IBK Legal team advises and supports Barclays’ investment banking business, partnering with its coverage and origination, product, execution and syndicate teams to enable delivery of consistently excellent investment banking services to clients of Barclays.The Legal team works closely with the business and with colleagues in Compliance, Risk & Controls and other functions across a wide variety of transactional and non-transactional matters to identify and manage legal and regulatory risk.

The key purpose of your role is to support the IBK Legal 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 LLRs and compliance with applicable Barclays policies and standards.

The IBK Legal team ensure investment banking activities are conducted in compliance with all appliable LRRs and help Barclays 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.

•Promoting and overseeing best practice for LRR knowledge management.

•Producing analysis and updates for internal briefings, coordinating input from across the team and other functions.

•Designing, 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 strategy.

•Collaboration with legal tech, innovation and project management teams to drive LRR knowledge management efficiencies.

• Support the capture and sharing of LRR knowhow across teams.

• 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.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• Be a qualified lawyer in the UK or other common law jurisdiction.
• Ideally be a practising financial services regulatory lawyer or otherwise have post qualification financial services regulatory experience.
• Have an understanding of working in a highly regulated financial institution.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, shares knowledge , works effectively as a part of a team.
• Effective in a fast-paced, complex and multi-dimensional environment.

Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:

• Investment banking regulatory experience either in private practice or in house at a financial institution and a good understanding of the key LRRs applicable to investment banking services.
• Have a proven ability to manage relationships with senior stakeholders.

You may be assessed on the 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 is based in London.

Purpose of the role

To ensure that activities of the investment banking 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 to laws, rules and regulations.   .
• Legal advice and support to the bank's investment banking division on legal matters including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, lending and other corporate finance transactions.
• Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to investment banking activities, such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
• Creation and/or review of legal documents for the investment banking division to ensure the bank’s adherence with applicable laws, rules and regulations. Maintaining and updating form legal documentation for the investment banking division.
• Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws, rules and regulations that may impact the bank's investment banking activities.
• Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the investment banking activities.
• Act as legal advisor to the Investment banking transaction approval committees on laws, rules and regulations.

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.