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Date live:
Jul. 11, 2025
Business Area:
Legal
Area of Expertise:
Legal
Reference Code:
JR-0000058880
Contract:
Permanent
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Explore locationJoin 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:
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
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
Vice President Expectations
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.