Lawyer - Everyday Banking Team
Lawyer - Everyday Banking Team
Apply locations: Chester, Halifax, Trinity Road, Bristol, Harbourside, Leeds, Wellington Place, Cardiff
Time type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 2 Days Ago
End Date: February 12, 2025 (11 days left to apply)
Job Requisition ID: 127840
Salary Range: £87,552 - £97,280
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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary:
JOB TITLE: Lawyer - Everyday Banking
LOCATIONS: Chester, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Halifax or Edinburgh
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.
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified lawyer with a minimum of 2 years’ post qualification experience to join the Everyday Banking Legal team. We work hand in hand with the Everyday Banking business, which focuses on UK personal retail bank and savings accounts and related services.
As an Everyday Banking lawyer, your primary focus will be on everyday banking matters. However, you may also be called upon to support other Consumer Legal teams or help deliver centralised Consumer Legal initiatives. This flexibility helps us manage the demands on our teams in ever-more agile ways! There will also be opportunities to engage in and influence across the wider range of activities within our Legal & Secretariat community.
What would you be getting involved with?
* Your focus will be on the wide range of matters that relate to personal bank and savings accounts.
* You’ll also support transformation projects, assisting in the delivery of changes to products and services.
* You’ll play a key role advising on a wide variety of retail banking initiatives, including new and existing products and services, digital propositions, existing and upcoming law and regulation.
* You’ll also support new partnerships with third parties that meet our customers’ needs beyond banking.
* You’ll offer insightful, high-quality legal expertise and commercial advice to Everyday Banking colleagues and their support areas.
* You’ll collaborate with other legal teams and join Consumer Legal and Legal & Secretariat initiatives.
About you…
* You’ll bring passion for our values of putting People-First, being Bold, championing Sustainability, Trust, and being Inclusive.
* You’ll have the ability to build strong collaborative relationships.
* You’ll love to solve problems and challenge the status quo with innovative ideas.
* You’re a highly motivated self-starter.
* You’ll have the ability to interpret and apply legislation and regulatory rules/expectations.
* You’ll be a capable communicator confident in engaging with team members across a variety of divisions.
* You’ll have sound legal, commercial and risk judgment.
* You’ll embrace technology and champion the benefits it offers.
* You’ll thrive on challenge and be able to balance multiple competing demands.
Skills/experience:
Ideally, you’ll have knowledge of:
* Retail banking law, general consumer law and FCA principles and rules, including Consumer Duty.
* Payment Services Regulations, Payment Accounts Regulations and other requirements applying to the products and services we support.
* Industry initiatives such as Open Banking and LINK/access to cash arrangements.
If you’re not familiar with all of these but have some relevant expertise, transferable skills and are keen to learn, we’re also happy to hear from you.
What do you get in return?
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
We're focused on creating a purpose driven 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 colleagues can make a real difference.
In return for your expertise, as a valued member of our team, we bring dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development.
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper.
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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.
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