VP, Loans & Portfolio Management Legal

About the role

Barclays is recruiting a Vice President for its Loans & Portfolio Management Legal team, based in Glasgow or Birmingham. The role protects the bank, its employees and its brands while ensuring global competitiveness and compliance, and advises on complex loan transactions and financing structures for the bank's lending businesses across Investment Bank, International Corporate Banking and UK Corporate Bank.

Key responsibilities

• Ensure corporate banking activities related to the role's product set comply with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and manage legal and reputational risks.
• Develop and implement best-practice legal strategies and create and review legal documents for the relevant products.
• Provide subject-matter legal advice to corporate and investment banking divisions and to business and infrastructure functions such as credit, compliance, risk, product management, tax, finance, fraud, litigation and operations.
• Support the bank's representation in litigation, arbitration and regulatory investigations.
• Deliver training on legal and regulatory requirements and proactively advise on laws, rules and regulations.
• Manage and mitigate risks, support control and governance, and advise functional leadership and senior management.

Required profile

• Qualified solicitor in England, Wales or Scotland with a track record of leading loan financing transactions in investment and corporate banking.
• Good knowledge of LMA documentation and loan market positions.
• Ability to navigate the regulatory and compliance landscape and to manage business stakeholders of different experience levels.
• Permanent contract; the role may be subject to enhanced governance and additional regulatory obligations.

Required skills

• Knowledge of financing markets (property, telecoms, utilities, project, infrastructure and general corporate).
• Highly valued: experience with a major global law firm, in-house legal experience, and skills in risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology.

The application process asks for a CV and cover letter, followed by an assessment, an interview and further screening steps. Flexible working and hybrid working arrangements are discussed with the hiring manager.