NatWest Group
About the Role:
Join our Investments Legal team within Retail & Wealth Legal as a Legal Counsel. This role plays a critical part in delivering our legal strategy, offering expert and cost-effective legal advice.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and coordinate the delivery of legal advice supporting our Wealth business.
- Work closely with stakeholders and legal colleagues to ensure timely, effective, and efficient delivery of issues, projects, and initiatives.
- Ensure legal advice is understandable to non-lawyers, delivered within deadlines, and manages legal risks.
- Improve operating practices and processes, identifying efficiencies and cost-saving opportunities.
- Communicate legal advice internally and externally, delivering advice and projects to stakeholders efficiently and commercially.
- Manage legal costs using e-billing, auctions, and other cost-saving tools.
Skills and Expertise:
- Experience providing legal, regulatory, and commercial advice on investment products and services in the wealth and asset management industry.
- Knowledge of financial services regulations and wealth/asset management industry practices.
- Strong relationship-building skills across the bank.
- Experience in providing expert legal advice in the wealth and asset management industry (in-house or law firm).
- Experience working with leading law firms and professional advisors.
- Ability to stay current with and share relevant legal and market developments.
- Experience with retail investment funds (preferred, but not essential).