SALARY: £114,606 - £134,830
LOCATION(S): Bristol, Cardiff, Chester, Edinburgh, Halifax & Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior Lawyer to join the Banking Products team in Business and Commercial Banking and Corporate and Institutional Banking Legal.
Banking Products Legal plays a critical role in supporting the Bank’s strategy. This role will focus on legal support for merchant services solutions to small businesses, larger corporate customers, governmental bodies and local authorities. We work closely with colleagues in Product, Coverage, our transformational Platform teams and Delivery plus other functional support areas.
The products and services we support are merchant acquiring, payment getaways, partnerships, digital innovations including embedded finance payment methods and online digital channels through which our products and services are provided to clients.
Our team provides legal and advice support in relation to product development and innovation, negotiation of commercial contracts, legal and regulatory change projects, rectifications and remediations, industry change initiatives, customer on-boarding, end-to-end customer journeys and the management of legal risk. The merchant services business has a programme of strategic growth so a really exciting time to be part of the legal team supporting this.
The successful candidate will be someone who delivers influential insight, engages proactively with senior partners and the Legal & Secretariat Community and operates as a subject matter specialist. The role will also include delegated line management responsibilities.
The place to be!
You’ll be part of a truly supportive team working on core and innovative products and helping to find legal solutions to support strategy. We like to challenge the status quo and help drive continuous improvement activity.
This role will require a good understanding of the legal, regulatory framework applicable to payments and strong commercial contracts experience.
