Legal Counsel
- Recruiter
- Robert Walters Ltd
- Location
- England, London
- Salary
- Negotiable
- Posted
- 16 Aug 2017
- Closes
- 12 Sep 2017
- Ref
- 2659430/001
- Contact
- Simon Riva
- Job Title
- In House Counsel
- Practice Area
- Fraud & White Collar Crime
- PQE Level
- 2-4
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Introduction
One of the top tier global banks is looking to expand their financial crime legal team by bringing in a junior lawyer to work across the bank's business functions, based in their London offices. You would be working as part of a small team of lawyers directly reporting to the legal head of the team advising on a range of financial crime legal matters, with a clear path of progression and expanding on your knowledge.
Key responsibilities
- Working on a broad range of financial crime legal matters across the business functions.
- Providing expert and specialist legal advice to the business on complex Anti-Money Laundering, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Counter-Terrorist Financing, Fraud and a range of other sanctions.
- To collaborate and work closely with the financial crime compliance, compliance, audit and other various stakeholders.
- Providing high quality support on focused legal and regulatory advice to the business and legal partners.
- Proactively identify unmanaged risk and emerging trends on financial crime matters.
About you
As the Junior lawyer, you'll have 1-3PQE (although a different level of experience will be considered if you meet the required standards) with broad experience on a range of financial crime legal matters with Anti-Money Laundering, dealing with complex and in depth legal matters. You will have strong technical knowledge and the ability to analyse and minimise legal risk issues.