Senior Legal Counsel

Role Description

We are looking for an exceptional commercial contracts lawyer to work within our Group Commercial Legal team. The role covers a variety of legal matters across multiple business areas but focusses particularly on FNZ’s client and supplier contracts across the globe. As such there is a significant contract review, analysis and drafting component to this position. The right candidate is someone who has a passion for a delivering complex legal projects, has a detailed analytical brain, good organisational skills, can understand and navigate a complex multi-facetted business and can link in with multiple teams across the business to generate the best legal and commercial outcomes for FNZ.

Organisational Design

The Head of Group Commercial Legal reports directly into the Group General Counsel

Team Responsibilities

To manage and monitor legal and contractual matters on behalf of the FNZ group

Specific Role Responsibilities

• Negotiating and drafting client and supplier contracts

• Providing general legal support to the business

• Managing and monitoring relationships with external legal advisors in matters relating to the FNZ group’s business

• Contract analysis and reporting

• Monitoring and reporting on legal developments and how they might affect FNZ

• Contract management (including managing and maintaining FNZ’s contracts register)

• Managing disputes

• Supporting strategic projects

• Producing MI for internal business reporting/tracking

• Reviewing company activities related to UK legal matters, identifying potential litigation issues and acting to address or mitigate these

• Contributing to the development and maintenance of the annual UK legal budget

• Focus on legal risk management

• Contributing to the development of legal policy/procedures

Experience Required

• Commercial solicitor with a minimum of 10 years PQE

• Energetic commercial contracts specialist with strong contract analysis, negotiating and drafting skills essential

• Fintech/Financial Services sector experience desirable

• Some people management experience desirable

• Current industry knowledge and an awareness and understanding of regulatory and industry related change events as they occur

• Excellent attention to detail and a methodological way of working

• Strong communication skills (verbally and in writing) and experience of influencing a broad range of decision makers and stakeholders

• Excellent business judgment and interpersonal skills

• Enthusiasm for taking on new responsibilities, even if outside areas of expertise

• Able to work in extremely fast-paced environment, collaboratively, and autonomously

• Awareness of risk management practices desirable

• Independent, self-directing and delivery focused working style with superior analytical thinking and commercially aware

• An understanding of the platform market desirable

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with over 650 financial institutions and 12,000 wealth managers, with US$1.7 trillion in assets under administration (AUA).

Together with our customers, we help over 26 million people from all wealth segments to invest in their future.