Legal Counsel London, England
Job description
At AAT it’s our mission to make it possible for more people to experience the opportunities a career in finance brings, through our accessible qualifications and supportive community.
We are the UK’s leading qualification and professional membership body for vocational accountants. We pride ourselves on providing practical qualifications that meet the needs of both employers and employees, as well as products and services to support our members and customers throughout their careers.
Term: Permanent
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
Salary: £84,444 - £102,222 per annum
Location: We have hybrid working in place, with 1-2 days per week, in our office in Canary Wharf.
Job Description: Legal Counsel JD
What exactly will you be doing?
As a Legal Counsel, you will oversee all legal matters across the organisation and deliver an effective legal service in all core business activity.
Major objectives
The key objectives are:
- Design a new in-house legal function and provide legal oversight and effective support to all partnership and intellectual property arrangements.
- Collate and assess AAT’s varied legal requirements and create an optimal service structure, considering both internal and external requirements.
- Liaise with external lawyers to provide effective and cost-efficient legal advice to the organisation.
- Manage and deliver a first-class in-house legal function that delivers a demanding and varied workload of legal considerations, ranging from commercial, to supplier and including employment matters.
What are we looking for?
- Proven experience as a Legal Counsel in business environment.
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of corporate and commercial law and procedures.
- Full comprehension of the influences of external environment in a corporate scenario.
- Demonstrated ability to create legal advice across business activity.
- Knowledge and understanding of charity/membership body and its functions.
- High degree of professional ethics and integrity.
- Sound judgement and ability to analyse situations and information.
What are the benefits?
At AAT we believe in treating our staff well and this is reflected in our wide-ranging benefits, which include:
- Hybrid working (1-2 days per week in our London office) and opportunities for further flexible working.
- 25 days’ annual leave, increasing one day per year up to a maximum of 30 days plus bank holidays.
- Great pension scheme, life assurance, and critical illness cover.
- Health cash plan.
- Enhanced maternity and shared parental leave contributions of up to 6 months’ full pay depending on the length of service.
- Regular wellbeing initiatives.
- Cycle2Work scheme and much more.
Closing Date: The planned closing date for this role is 26 May 2023 at 17.00, however, we reserve the right to close the role earlier than planned.
It’s an exciting time to join AAT and we would love you to join us on our journey. In 2022 we achieved one-star company status in the Best Companies survey, and we have recently launched our strategy to 2030.
We are committed to being an inclusive and welcoming place to work. We encourage applications from diverse candidates and make recruitment decisions based on skill and experience. We have a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) Champions group, which leads on our D&I strategy and organise events to celebrate and raise awareness. We are a disability-confident committed employer and have signed up to the Race at Work Charter. We have also signed up for the Women in Finance Charter, and in 2022 we exceeded our target for appointing females into senior positions.
Come and help us to make AAT an even better place to work!
Interested?
To apply please submit a copy of your CV and covering letter. Please note, that applications without a covering letter will not be considered.
If you have a disability, need further support, or reasonable adjustments to assist you in our process, please contact us at [email protected] or by calling 0207 735 2468 and asking for a member of the HR team.
