Legal Adviser – Trading

Our client is a very successful, award-winning pensions administrator. They are looking for a part time Legal Adviser to join their highly regarded legal team. This is an important and evolving role within the team and provides exposure to varied and good quality work. The company bring most of good work in-house now and will continue to do more so in the future.

Initially for the first 6 months you could be dealing with ISDA, FX work, clearing arrangements and term sheets. As the role develops you will perhaps move towards Derivatives OTC work and handling clearing issues.

Most likely the right candidate will currently be sitting in a Derivatives team and have a good technical background in clearing, trading and execution.

Technical Legal Skills –

* ISDA
* FX agreements
* Trading and execution
* Futures
* Clearing
* Derivatives, OTC,
* Structured Products
* Need to know EMEA rules and regulations
* Ability to draft, review and negotiate NDA’s, reporting agreements, brokerage agreements, agency agreements and other relevant financial services agreements

The successful candidate would need good attention to detail and good people management skills.

Duties – overseeing ISDA, master FX agreements, trading, dealing with money fund prospectus. The company is not doing derivatives, OTC work at the moment but could be in the future. You will be negotiating contracts with significant blue chip organisation, interfacing with custodians.

Person – The right candidate will have the right technical legal skills combined with the right interpersonal skills required to working in a busy in-house environment. The client is looking for someone used to dealing with trader counter parties, they are looking at building up counter party panel – (how to navigate those, negotiate terms, set up trading relationships, how regulatory changes impact, clearing etc).

Interpersonal Skills – This is an evolving role so a candidate who can understand this and would welcome this would be sought. You will need to be able to hit the ground running, stand on your own two feet and work self-sufficiently.

You will be working with a committed, hard-working team who are viewed as true business partners. You will be involved in good quality work in a company which offers a good work life balance and an exceptional benefits package including a DB pension scheme.

You will need good communication skills and the ability to deal with different personalities and characters both internally and externally.

You will need to be able to point to strong business commercial skills. The client does not want black letter lawyers who sit on the fence. You need to have the confidence to make a call using your legal and commercial judgement.

Evolving Role – One of the big selling points of this opportunity is that to a degree you can define own role. This position will expand as the challenges of the role develop. The evolving nature of the role is what offers the challenge so the right candidate will be open to this type of opportunity and won’t get frustrated by this.

Company – This is a fantastic company to work for. You will be working within a legal team with people who love the job and love the people they work with.

You will be provided with the opportunity to be involved at all levels of the business, working a lot with senior Directors as well and junior members of the team and you will get exposure to good quality work.

For more information on this great in-house opportunity please contact Simon Campbell at Newton Shaw. If this position isn’t for you but you know someone who could be suitable then please let us know. We offer a reward fee of £250 for any successful referrals. For full details please see our website.