Regulatory Lawyer VP

Join us as a Regulatory Lawyer VP at Barclays within the Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility (PPCR) Legal team. You will act as a proactive and trusted legal adviser across the Group, focusing on developing law and regulation impacting Barclays, and supporting the firm’s response to an increasingly complex and evolving regulatory environment.

You will play a key role in analysing emerging regulatory and legislative developments, primarily in the UK and Europe, assessing their potential impact on Barclays and working closely with colleagues across Legal, Strategic Policy and Front Line businesses to shape advocacy strategies, support engagement with external stakeholders (including regulators, policymakers and industry bodies), advise on consultation responses, and ensure a co-ordinated approach across the Legal function.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping Barclays’ approach to regulatory and public policy developments. You will work on high-profile and complex issues across multiple jurisdictions, within a collaborative and supportive legal team.

To be successful as a Regulatory Lawyer VP, you should:

• Be an experienced Financial Services Regulatory Advisory Lawyer with significant legal experience gained in-house or in a challenging private practice environment

• Have experience engaging with or advising on public policy, advocacy or regulatory change processes, including supporting external engagement

• Have the ability to analyse developing or evolving areas of law and regulation, including where there is limited precedent, and translate these into clear implications for Barclays’ strategy and positioning

• Have the ability to take ownership of complex matters, shaping legal and advocacy approach, and providing clear, pragmatic advice to a variety of internal stakeholders enabling them to effectively and safely progress their objectives, strategy and deliverables

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the 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 London.

Purpose of the role

To ensure that the bank’s activities in relation to Sustainability activities are conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and regulatory risks associated with these activities. 

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance.
• Legal advice and support in relation to the bank's sustainability-related activities, including sustainability reporting, external and internal policies, regulatory advocacy and implementation, risk management, and sustainable and transition finance.
• Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to sustainability and ESG such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
• Creation and review of legal documents, where applicable, to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
• Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in laws and regulations that may impact the bank's sustainability and ESG activities.
• Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on applicable legal and regulatory requirements related to sustainability and ESG.
• 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.