Lawyer - Specialist Banking & Mass Affluent Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
82539 - 91710 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Thursday 05 October 2023
Salary Range
£82,539 - £91,710Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Lawyer - Specialist Banking & Mass Affluent
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Chester & Halifax
HOURS: [Full-time/Part-time]
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid working / Job share arrangements will be considered.
About this opportunity
We have an exciting Fixed Term Contract opportunity to run until the end of 2024 for a Lawyer (E) to join the Specialist Banking & Mass Affluent Legal (SB&MA) team to support Fraud & Financial Crime work, including regulatory and industry initiatives, the Economic Crime Prevention Platform, fraud detection process development and support for high value complaints. There will also be exciting opportunities to support change, growth and innovation through support for account and lending products and digital proposition, as part of the newly formed Mass Affluent (MA) business unit, which also includes the existing Private Banking business.
We operate as an agile team and there will be opportunities to engage in and influence across the wider range of activities the team supports which includes the development of the newly formed Mass Affluent business unit, which is a key part of the Group’s strategy.
Our brands, our services and our business span every aspect of banking and finance, including some of the biggest names on the UK's high streets. That gives us a big responsibility to support the UK economy, with a clear strategy to put customers first - and achieve our vision of becoming the best bank for customers.
Could you help us make this possible?
SB&MA- more than just a name!
We're focused on creating a purpose driven culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all colleagues can make a real difference.
In return for your expertise, as a valued member of our team, we bring dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We'll support your growth and how to advance your career through excellent training and progression opportunities. Our customers’ experience and success starts with yours.
This is an innovative and constantly developing team within the Legal & Secretariat Community. We love to challenge ourselves and will welcome the curious and versatile to work at the heart of embedding legal risk management and key Fraud & Financial Crime initiatives. As a Lawyer, you will support the Senior Lawyers in the management of legal risk and shaping initiatives to run an agile and insightful legal team.
Specifically, this role will provide legal advice across regulatory and industry initiatives, the Economic Crime Prevention Platform, fraud detection process development and support for high value complaints. There will be opportunity to coach colleagues in applying legal advice in day-to-day activities to deliver effective legal risk management. Establishing legal insights that improve SB&MA effectiveness and underpin delivery of products.
We will encourage you to do what is right and empower you to make the right decision. We will invest in your career development plans and give you opportunities to grow and learn.
The nuts and bolts - no two days are the same…!
- Providing insightful, high-quality legal advice and to Fraud & Financial Crime.
- Enabling effective legal risk management and governance of the wider legal risk profile, for Fraud and Financial Crime.
- Working closely with Compliance colleagues.
- Overseeing complaints and partnering LRC on litigation relating to fraud and financial crime.
- Understanding training needs and delivering solutions.
- Supporting on rectification and remediation activity and development of fraud detection, prevention and reimbursement strategies in an ever-changing fraud landscape.
- Engaging cross-functional teams, to identify, analyse and review legal risk within key Fraud and Financial Crime activities.
- Building effective team working with wider Consumer Legal teams by leading or supporting thematic developments.
- Developing knowledge of trends within the legal market, with a specific focus on business banking lending, exploring tech solutions, evolving legal services, and being able to translate this into usable insight.
What you''ll need..
- Bring passion for our values of putting the being bold and taking action, trusting each other, putting people first, and embracing our differences.
- Experience and knowledge of fraud and financial crime and current regulatory and legislative landscape is required.
- Build strong collaborative relationships across the business to achieve our strategic goals.
- Be confident in using experience and insights to influence, innovate and challenge both business and technical decisions. Helping mitigate control and legal risk weakness.
- Be a highly motivated self-starter with ability to prioritise own workload. Leading various tasks requiring a high level of proficiency and detail.
- Be knowledgeable about current legal and regulatory landscape, Fraud & Financial Crime processes and delivery model and their bearing on the risk profile of Lloyds Bank and its customers. Underpinned by a solid understanding of current and emerging trends.
- Role model continuous learning and self-development. Exploring new ways of managing legal risk through automation, leveraging data and external legal advisers.
Matching desired skills/background …
- Strong operational, legal and regulatory knowledge of fraud and financial crime, and related detection processes, payment regulations and customer complaints
- Working knowledge of CRM Code and Payment Services Regulations and current Payment Systems Regulator consultations.
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.
We’d love to hear from you.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
