Securitisation Lawyer (VP)

As a Securitisation Lawyer, you will provide daily legal and regulatory support across new and existing securitisation workstreams in collaboration with Treasury Legal Colleagues. Your role involves leading efforts to establish new sources of secured funding, including standalone risk transfer trades, while delivering specialist technical advice to Treasury stakeholders. This includes supporting secured funding programmes and standalone trades across Barclays Bank UK PLC, Barclays Bank PLC, and Barclays Bank Ireland PLC.

Key Accountabilities

• Taking a leading role within the GCTL Team as Legal Business Partner to Barclays Treasury in relation to:
• Assisting on Treasury's standalone issuances, including new significant risk transfer/similar trades.
• Maintaining Treasury's secured debt issuance programmes.
• Reviewing and drafting legal documentation for projects and transactions contemplated by Treasury with external counsel as necessary.
• Supporting on due diligence, representation and warranty reviews, disclosure, and general securitisation transaction management.

Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:

• UK-qualified lawyer with good technical knowledge and experience of securitisation gained in private practice.
• Knowledge of significant risk transfer transactions and derivatives.
• Certainty in advising on key risk issues and mitigants and helping to make decisions.
• Execution-focused mindset. Good attention to detail and transaction management skills.
• Comfortable with and used to working under tight deadlines.
• Strong commercial focus with an aptitude for problem solving.
• Knowledge of unsecured issuance.
• Prioritises and manages workload effectively.
• Takes ownership and sees matters to completion.
• Team player, collegiate and supportive of colleagues.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and digital and technological skills, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This is a full-time, permanent role based in London.

Purpose of the role

To ensure the bank's corporate and corporate governance (including public disclosures). Creation and periodic review of legal documents in accordance with contractual arrangements policy.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance.
• Legal advice and support on a wide range of issues, including disclosure, financial reporting, company and corporate law, corporate governance, securities issuances and programmes, regulatory capital, recovery and resolution planning, disclosures, and contractual arrangements with financial utility providers.
• Representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to company and corporate legislation and regulatory requirements, including litigation, arbitration, and investigations, working with internal teams as appropriate.
• Creating and reviewing legal documents such as disclosures, announcements, securities offering documents, contracts, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance.
• Legal research to stay updated on changes in laws and regulations impacting the bank's activities.
• Developing and delivering training to educate employees on relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
• Proactively identifying, communicating, and advising on applicable laws, rules, and regulations, ensuring they are reflected in policies, standards, and controls.

Vice President Expectations

• Contribute to strategy, drive requirements, and recommend changes. Manage resources, budgets, and policies; deliver improvements; escalate issues.
• If managing a team, define roles, plan for future needs, counsel on performance, and contribute to pay decisions. Lead specialists and influence operations aligning with strategic priorities.
• If a subject matter expert, guide technical direction, lead assignments, train and coach colleagues, and inform strategic decisions.
• Advise stakeholders, manage risks, and demonstrate leadership in controls and compliance.
• Understand organizational functions to support business goals.
• Collaborate across areas to stay aligned with business activities.
• Create solutions through analytical thinking and research.
• Build trusting relationships with stakeholders using influencing and negotiating skills.

All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, and Drive.