Senior Lawyer – Invoice Finance & Asset Finance

About this opportunity

Do you want to be part of a supportive team working on core and innovative products and helping to find legal solutions to support the ambitious growth strategy of the invoice finance and asset finance business areas?

As a qualified lawyer, you’ll join the Banking Products Legal team. You'll use your experience to give proactive, pragmatic and solutions-focused advice and support for invoice finance and asset finance business areas which provide invoice and asset finance related products and services to clients of all sizes. The role will involve an element of delegated line management.

Day to day you’ll be:

• Operating as a subject matter specialist, supporting colleagues in the business and other functional areas.
• Providing legal support for product development and innovation, legal and regulatory change projects, rectifications and remediations, industry change initiatives, customer on-boarding and customer journeys.
• Proactively identifying, reporting and supporting the management of legal and governance risks, recommending solutions when needed.
• Collaborating with team members and work cross-functionally to help delivery business strategy.
• Managing panel law firms and build and maintain positive relationships with external lawyers.
• Reflecting on service delivery and look for continuous improvement activities; and staying on top of regulatory, industry and legal change.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Qualified as a solicitor in the UK (or equivalent qualification) with relevant PQE.
• A good understanding of the legal and regulatory framework applicable to invoice finance and/or asset finance.
• An ability to build strong, collaborative relationships.
• Confidence in using experience and insights to influence, inform and challenge.
• And any experience of these would be really useful
• Providing legal support to an invoice finance and/or asset finance business.  - Subject matter expertise on at least one of these areas will be required. 

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, and build an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies