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Job Description Summary

This is a great opportunity to join a friendly, inclusive and dedicated legal team who work hand in hand with our business to build great customer outcomes!

The Traded Products Legal team in Commercial Banking Legal, provides support to the markets business with this role focussing on financial institutions and fund management business. We embrace collaborative, agile ways of working, to help us deliver the best outcomes for our colleagues, customers and businesses. Join us and discover how this could work for you.

Job Description

At Lloyds Banking Group, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses, and play a key role in helping to build a growing UK economy.

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This is a great opportunity to join a friendly, inclusive and dedicated legal team who work hand in hand with our business to build great customer outcomes!

The Traded Products Legal team in Commercial Banking Legal, provides support to the markets business with this role focussing on financial institutions and fund management business. We embrace collaborative, agile ways of working, to help us deliver the best outcomes for our colleagues, customers and businesses.

We’re committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference.

About the role:

Reporting to The Head of Legal, you’ll take full responsibility for all aspects of legal support and advice in relation to a broad suite of trading documentation including ISDAs, CSAs, GMRAs, GMSLAs and CDEAs.

You’ll provide specialist and insightful legal, transaction and regulatory advice and support on all matters relating to the markets business, including engagement with other internal legal teams and leading any escalations. 

In addition, you’ll also be required to provide ad hoc support to other business areas where there is strategic alignment with the markets business.  Solid experience in derivative and/or repo documentation.

Key Accountabilities:

• You’ll act as a source of professional expertise and be a trusted advisor to business partners
• Delivering technical input to positively influence transactions, product development and projects of significance for the relevant businesses and the Group and supervise others in doing the same
• Identify and mitigate legal risk, which will include emerging risks and legal horizon-scanning
• You’ll identify, formulate, co-ordinate and communicate policies, procedures and controls to ensure that each businesses’ exposure to legal risk is effectively managed, within the Group’s risk management framework
• Supporting on the review and resolution of risk events and redress and remediation programmes
• Developing and maintaining precedent documentation

Positively influence the appropriate use of the Bank’s Legal Panel firms

• Positively influence others by demonstrating the core LBG values and behaviours

What we need from you:

Essentials

• You’ll be a qualified solicitor
• You’ll be able to build and maintain external and internal network and relationships to provide appropriate professional advice to achieve relevant business objectives
• Proven people manager with the ability to manage and co-ordinate the provision of ad hoc services to the business by internal legal colleagues and business service functions
• You’ll be comfortable challenging and influencing senior business partners and presenting solutions which are easily understood
• You’ll have an agile approach and be willing to develop in other areas so as to provide support to other businesses/projects that the wider legal teams support, as and when required

Desirables

• A positive, proactive and growth mindset with the desire to work across a wide range of matters to not only serve the function and business generally but also to develop professionally
• Capable of taking on broad scope of responsibility and delivering to conflicting deadlines
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, with experience adapting your style and approach to the audience and message to be delivered
• A good degree of business and legal acumen and the ability to deliver pragmatic advice and guidance, even in times of ambiguity

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working. 

Together we'll make it possible...

So what can we offer you in return?  

• Pension, where we'll give up to a max of 15%  
• 30 days holiday (plus Public) 

Are you interested in joining us? Apply today, we’d love to hear from you...

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.