Financial Services Lawyer

We are currently seeking Financial Services Lawyers to work with a variety of Axiom clients across banking fintech payments asset management insurance investment consumer finance and other regulated financial services sectors supporting a broad range of commercial regulatory product governance and advisory matters.

Responsibilities:

• Provide practical commercially focused legal advice on financial services matters including regulatory compliance commercial contracts product support governance risk management customer-facing documentation and business-as-usual legal advisory work.
• Advise legal compliance risk product commercial operations procurement and senior business stakeholders on matters affecting regulated financial services businesses including banking fintech payments consumer credit lending funds asset management insurance and investment services.
• Draft review and negotiate a broad range of financial services and commercial documentation including client terms supplier agreements outsourcing arrangements technology contracts distribution agreements policies procedures and regulatory documentation.
• Support cross-functional projects involving regulatory change product launches customer journeys operational resilience financial promotions complaints governance frameworks third-party risk and engagement with internal or external stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Qualified lawyer eligible to practise in the UK or equivalent overseas qualification with strong financial services commercial regulatory banking fintech payments asset management insurance or consumer finance experience.
• Experience advising financial institutions fintechs regulated businesses in-house legal teams or senior stakeholders on commercial regulatory product governance risk or business-as-usual legal matters.
• Strong drafting review negotiation and advisory experience across commercial contracts financial services documentation customer terms supplier arrangements outsourcing technology agreements policies or regulatory materials.
• Excellent commercial awareness legal judgment stakeholder management communication drafting and analytical skills with the ability to deliver pragmatic business-focused advice in fast-paced regulated environments.

Compensation Benefits & Location:

This role offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package in the alternative legal services marketplace that includes health benefits pension and more. Axiomites also get access to professional development resources and learning and development programs. Axiom provides the opportunity to work remotely onsite or hybrid depending on client requirements.

Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre on-demand legal talent. Covering North America the UK Europe and APAC we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of todays business landscape with best in breed alterative legal services.

Axiom is a leader in diversity inclusion and social engagement.Diversity is core to our values and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.We are proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ Equality earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year. Axioms legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.

Learn more about working at Axiom.

Equal Opportunity Employer:Axiom ensures equal employment opportunity in recruitment and employment without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race color nationality national or ethnic origin religious creed or belief political opinion sex gender reassignment pregnancy or maternity age disability alienage or citizenship status marital (or civil or other partnership recognized by law) status genetic predisposition or carrier status sexual orientation military service or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Axiom prohibits and will not tolerate any such discrimination or harassment.

We understand that many legal professionals have chosen to adopt the consultancy model and we are happy to discuss this option with you. We offer both consultants and employees the opportunity to work with our enviable client roster. Contact usin complete confidence to find out more about opportunities to work with Axiom as an employee or consultant.

Accommodation for Individuals with Disabilities:Upon request and consistent with applicable laws Axiom will provide reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities who require an accommodation to participate in each stage of the recruitment process. To request an accommodation to complete the application form please contact us atand include Applicant Accommodation in the subject line.

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Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1