Legal Counsel (1)
- Legal
- Jersey
- Permanent
- Full Time
- 2222
Description
This is a great opportunity to join a collaborative and supportive legal team and deliver legal strategy and ensure the timely and effective delivery of all issues, projects, managing legal advice and support across multiple business areas which is accurate and readily understandable to non-lawyers, delivered at the right time, and remains commercial while minimising legal risks, managing advisers and stakeholders in successfully delivering the bank’s projects, striving for continuous improvement in the operating practices and processes, including identifying efficiencies, improvements and opportunities to reduce costs, managing legal costs through the use of e-billing, auctions and other tools, and driving a culture of disciplined cost management and controls.
Candidate must be qualified solicitor with experience of providing legal and commercial advice, in-depth knowledge of general banking law and practice and the financial services industry, ability to build rapport and establish strong relationships, especially with senior colleagues, good commercial awareness and analytical skills, motivation to set and achieve high performance targets.
