Substantive Legal Experience We're looking for a senior Retail Banking lawyer to support a multinational financial services organisation for 9 months.
This is an exciting opportunity to join one of the company's key Retail Banking teams. Having worked with the client, and this team many times before, our LODs have always given great feedback after working with them.
Your role will include:
Providing advice and support on legal issues, particularly focusing on matters relating to current accounts, overdrafts, savings, and FX products, with flexibility to support on other areas as and when needed
Providing risk leadership and oversight of activities to mitigate legal risks in the business, in line with the Risk Management Framework
Taking part in key governance committees and forums as required
Updating the business on changes to law and regulation
You'll be a senior banking lawyer with previous experience in retail banking, with confidence of retail banking laws and products (such as BCOBs, PSRs, overdrafts, CCA)
This assignment will be full time, ideally with 3 days in the office in Birmingham. If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!
Why join LOD?
People come to us for a variety of reasons they might be looking for a better work life balance, the opportunity to work alongside other projects, or just a change. What they all have in common is a desire for high quality work coupled with a degree of control that traditional models can’t offer, but LOD can.
All of our LODs have worked at top tier firms or as part of major in-house teams. We only accept a small percentage of applications as we choose lawyers who are not only technically excellent, but who can work seamlessly with our client’s teams. This ensures we can offer our lawyers consistently high-quality assignments.
We can offer;
Varied, challenging, career-enhancing work with market leading brands (from Google to Barclays, and Amex to adidas) as well as exciting growth companies.
Flexibility and autonomy: you can work anything from full-time on site with a client to a few hours each week from home.
Training and know-how, as well as support from our and dedicated HQ Team.
A variety of flexible models that include working at the client’s offices or remotely.
About LOD:
LOD is the leading flexible legal service provider across ten locations: Brisbane, Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth, Singapore, Dubai and Sydney. We are changing the way in which clients buy legal services and provide talented lawyers with a new way of working.
We’ve achieved some of the fastest growth in our sector by creating and leading a new professional service category. That growth continues as we launch new services, responding to the way our lawyers want to work and clients want to engage them. This role offers an opportunity to be part of this story.
LOD has caught the imagination of the changing legal marketplace for ‘new law’ services. We now have a team of around 600 lawyers and consultants of the highest quality working across the globe. We have an inspiring client list that range from globally recognised multinationals to start-ups and include the likes of Google, Barclays and adidas.
Consilio EU Looking for something different? Tired of the traditional legal market? Wanting something modern, flexible and exciting? Then why not get the freedom to work how you want, the inspiring work you deserve and the support you need to succeed. LOD offers the ability to work flexibly with some of the world’s top businesses, across a range of industries. If you're a talented lawyer who has worked at leading law firms or as part of in-house legal teams we'd love to hear from you.
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