associate London, England
Job description
TLT is a leading adviser to the financial services industry. The firm acts for the largest UK banks and other leading firms. We are now looking to grow our Financial Services Regulatory team and we are keen to hear from Associates Senior Associates with 1-4 years PQE who want to join a team to work with leading experts.
The successful candidate would have the opportunity to be part of a growing and ambitious team, with excellent prospects for career advancement, in a supportive and exciting environment. You can enjoy flexible working arrangements and can be based out of any of our UK offices.
Your Role
You would join the Financial Services Regulatory team. We are looking for lawyers who particularly want to specialise in retail financial services (consumer credit, mortgages, retail banking and payments regulation). The team already has a very strong reputation in the retail financial services sector and advises banks, building societies and specialist lenders on the complete range of regulatory matters affecting their business. The team is ranked in Chambers and Partners for Consumer Finance.
In addition to this core focus, the team has a growing and wider financial regulation practice. This practice covers wealth and asset management, and funds and funds management.
You can expect to work for leading financial services firms on their strategically important matters. You will have the support of a specialist team, but will take on interesting work supporting on these sorts of areas:
- Assisting clients to develop new products and services, providing end to end regulatory support, including structuring products, drafting agreements, working on comms, working through detailed systems builds;
- Helping clients when things don’t go according to plan, including assessing regulatory issues and remediation strategies;
- Assisting clients to implement new regulatory requirements, including BNPL, consumer credit and payments reform;
- Assisting clients with general regulatory compliance, including with Consumer Duty and consumer law compliance.
In addition to the technical work on matters, you will also take part in training clients and speaking at conferences and client events on regulatory developments. You will also take an active role in business development.
Your Skills and Experience
To be considered for this role, you will ideally have had some technical financial regulation experience, and you will have a real interest in the area. You may have gained this experience working in private practice, in house, through academic study, working for a regulator or in a compliance or public affairs role. Ideally you will be a qualified lawyer, but we would consider compliance professionals who have good knowledge of technical regulations.
Ideally, you will have had some exposure to working on retail financial services and payments regulation, but you do not need experience of all the technical areas. You might also have had a more general regulatory role but are looking to specialise in the retail or payments sector.
It is also essential that you have a real and genuine interest in financial regulation and in particular the retail financial services sector. You will be given support to develop technically, but you also need a strong self learning approach to your development.
You do not need to have previous experience of business development activities, but you will need to have strong relationship building skills, enjoy thinking outside the box and want to go the extra mile for your clients. You will need to have a “can do” approach to your role and embrace challenges with energy.
Your Team
TLT is immersed in the financial services industry, which represents over 40% of our turnover.
The financial services industry is facing an unprecedented rate of regulatory change and our key relationships within our client base provide the opportunity to serve our clients further in this in this important and critical area.
Our proactive approach to providing insight and advice upon future risks and their solutions enables us to help clients navigate the challenges of regulatory change and scrutiny, rapid digital innovation and heightened operational risk.
About TLT
Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.
We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national, and international reach, we have over 1,200 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India, and the US.
We were named The Lawyer’s Law Firm of the Year in 2021 and won Best Law Firm of the year in the 2022 British Legal Awards.
Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it is essential that we do the same for our people, our planet, and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.
Our Benefits
We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 30 days holiday and private medical insurance.
At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work/life balance of our people.
TLT is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and encourages applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of any of the characteristics protected by the laws in the locations in which we operate.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments, where necessary, to make interviews and jobs more accessible. Should you have any difficulty during the recruitment process, require any reasonable adjustments or an application to Access to work please contact the recruitment team on [email protected]
