Cash Management Lawyer AVP

Key Responsibilities:
Provide legal support for the development and delivery of cash management services
Draft, review, and negotiate complex agreements including cash management agreements, service contracts, and related documentation.
Advise on legal and regulatory risks associated with cash management operations across jurisdictions.
Partner with internal stakeholders (product, risk, and compliance) to enable product innovation while ensuring legal compliance.

Essential Criteria:
UK Qualified Lawyer or equivalent
Ideally some knowledge of payment laws and systems, and cash management products. Exceptional candidates who do not have such experience but have a financial services background will also be considered.
Financial Services background - either private practice or in-house.
Contract negotiation and drafting skills.
Ability to work to deadlines and manage high volume of work.
Team player mindset who values and supports colleagues to seamlessly fit into a collaborative team.
Willingness to take forward any type of matter that needs progressing with enthusiasm.

Other highly valued skills include:
Pro-active and open-minded approach.
Communication and influencing skills.

This fulltime, permanent role can be based in Birmingham, Glasgow or Manchester.

Purpose of the role

To ensure that the activities of the corporate banking division related to the role’s relevant product set 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 related to the role’s relevant product set, to manage risk related to non-adherence to laws, rules and regulations.
Subject matter legal advice and support to the Bank's corporate and investment banking divisions globally on a wide range of transactions and projects across trade and working capital finance, cash management, real estate finance, project finance, asset backed finance, lending and other corporate loan finance.
Subject matter legal advice and support to the Bank’s businesses and infrastructure functions, including areas such as credit, compliance, risk, product management, tax, finance, fraud, transaction management, structuring and execution, litigation, commercial contract support, and operations, often in close collaboration with other legal teams across departments and jurisdictions.