Assistant Manager - Legal Ops

Step into the role of Assistant Manager - Legal Operations at Barclays, where you'll provide first-class support by conducting in-depth due diligence, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and safeguarding our clients and organization with expertise and care.

You will support the Legal Operations team by executing, streamlining, and automating operational and process-oriented tasks. Your work will enable Legal professionals to focus on high-value activities by centralizing and optimizing routine tasks.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role such as:

• Obtain and validate approvals across stakeholders during document negotiation stages using orchestration tools and AI solutions.
• Ensure timely and accurate coordination of approval processes for various agreement types.
• Process mergers by updating systems when two entities merge, ensuring only the surviving entity is reflected.
• Set up non-JB Arms AM/AH in relevant systems, leveraging orchestration tools for efficiency.
• Execute post-execution data capture for ISDA and local law equivalents, manually rekeying data points based on playbooks and ensuring records are created and quality checked for downstream Treasury tracking.
• Support Legal Onboarding milestones, including reviewing products, validating regulatory requirements, and tracking exceptions for Jetbridge products.

• Perform data remediation for both business-as-usual (e.g., EM/LIBRA breaks) and ad hoc exercises (e.g., TCP), utilizing process enhancements, document repositories, and AI.
• Support bail-in and stay remediation activities, contributing to CCLT controls redesign and document repository management.
• Demonstrates accuracy in data entry and review, ensuring high-quality outputs.
• Carefully follows guidelines and SOPs for data enrichment and validation

• Willingness to learn and develop proficiency with orchestration tools, AI solutions, and document repositories.
• Ability to support document upload, metadata management, and document splitting tasks.
• Capable of conducting QA reviews and identifying discrepancies in data outputs.
• Supports the resolution of data exceptions and facilitates SME review.
• Works effectively within a team, coordinating with Team Managers and SMEs to resolve queries.
• Communicates clearly and professionally when raising issues or seeking guidance.

• Proactively participates in training sessions and seeks opportunities to develop expertise in Barclays documentation standards and operational processes.
• Demonstrates a willingness to take on new tasks and adapt to evolving processes.

Desirable skill set:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Law, Business, Operations, or related field preferred.
• Experience in legal operations, data management, or process improvement is an advantage but not required.
• Strong interest in developing a career in legal operations and process optimization.

You may be assessed on key essential 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 out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To support business areas with day-to-day processing, reviewing, reporting, trading and issue resolution. 

Accountabilities

• Support various business areas with day-to-day initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate operational processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations in operational processes.
• Development and implementation of operational procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on operational performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in banking operations.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• 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 develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

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.