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Here at AXA, we give our customers and our people the confidence to progress. We're changing the way the world thinks about insurance, so come and shape the future of our business together. We're a team of technical experts, with diverse skills, experiences and backgrounds. We're the glue that ensures best practice and shared learning is applied across all of our business areas, giving our colleagues the confidence to grow and progress.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Legal Counsel to join our team based at our Redhill site on a Hybrid contract. This role is being offered on a 12 month FTC. Acting as legal advisor on a wide range of internal and external matters both in the UK/IRE and internationally, the Legal Counsel is responsible for ensuring the provision of high quality and effective day to day legal support for all areas of AXA Partners’ UK & Ireland and the Travel BL including new business activities, relationships with business partners, product development and operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing business partnering support on all legal matters, by liaising with local in-house or external legal advisers if need be
• Drafting and negotiating the legal content of commercial agreements for the UK & Ireland and international commercial agreements, in particular insurance/reinsurance and distribution/binding authority agreements
• Involvement in special projects as required (including corporate restructuring, regulatory change, etc.)
• Focus on early warning on any emerging issues, including legal or regulatory changes
• Ensure that work is progressed in a proactive and commercial way offering solutions and alternative approaches where appropriate
• Demonstrate high levels of visibility maximising opportunities to meet face to face (within travel restrictions)
• Working with the Head of Legal to manage the workload, demonstrating efficiencies in terms of cost and time
• Working with the Head of Legal to ensure that the business team receives high quality and effective advice and strategic guidance on relevant aspects of its operations to ensure legal, regulatory and control considerations are given appropriate weight and legal risks are managed/mitigated appropriately
• Work closely with the central compliance team, to manage day to day relationships with regulators and ensuring compliance with applicable national legal and regulatory requirements
• Ensure appropriate escalation of issues and matters requiring approval

• Qualified lawyer with at least [3] years legal experience in the insurance sector in the UK with an international company
• Excellent understanding and experience of insurance regulatory framework in the UK and the EU
• Being highly organised and able to prioritise their work to manage and successfully meet competing business demands within tight timescales
• Ability to present complex legal and other information clearly, accurately and in a way that can be understood by the relevant audience
• Experience in commercial negotiations with proven drafting and negotiation skills
• Flexible, adaptable, able to challenge the status quo, sound commercial sense and the ability to make pragmatic decisions
• A self-starter with the ability to work autonomously
• Ability to communicate effectively (both written and verbal) in English.

One of the best things about joining AXA is our rewards package. At AXA Partners, we’re appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary
• Annual company & performance-based bonus
• Group Personal Pension Plan
• Life Assurance (4x Annual Salary)
• Private Healthcare Benefit
• AXA employee discounts

Our ambition is to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for, as such we’re committed to supporting employee needs, providing meaningful career development and celebrating differences. We understand that everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities, therefore we’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role, should this be a requirement for you.

We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. As a regulated financial services company, all successful candidates will be subject to preemployment checks. We’re committed to providing equal opportunities for all, therefore we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. As a disability confident employer, we’re pleased to offer our support and access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge should you require an alternative method of applying or any reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process.

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