of counsel Manchester, England
Job description
Job Title: Legal Counsel
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday (09:00-17:00)
Salary: £60,000 - £95,000 (dependent on experience) up to 30% bonus and benefits
Location: Hybrid working from our Manchester or Blackpool Offices
Reporting line: General counsel
About Tandem
We're Tandem. The UK's fairer, greener, digital bank providing hard working people across the UK with greener ways to spend, borrow and save.
With more than 500 people in London, Blackpool, Cardiff, Durham and Manchester, all working together to create a fairer, greener, more accessible bank for people across the UK.
We're on a mission to proactively help our customers to reduce their carbon footprint and accelerate the UK to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 and we need more people to help us achieve this goal.
We've taken the beliefs, behaviours, and personality and created four underpinning values. These values demonstrate our guiding principles and behaviours for everyone at Tandem. Our ambition is that these values are ingrained and always front of mind when we're engaging with our stakeholder audiences. Our values are BRAVE, ENTERPRISING, SIMPLE and TOGETHER.
We're building an amazing team and we're looking for a hardworking and driven Legal Counsel to support us on our journey.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:
- Corporate advisory: advise internal stakeholders (and negotiate with external counterparts where relevant) on fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and intra-group agreements
- Finance advisory: advise internal stakeholders and negotiate with external counterparts on external financing and structuring
- Company Secretarial / Governance: Provide legal and company secretarial advice and support to the Chairman, the Board, and its sub-committees
- Investor relations: support the team in managing investor relations
- Advise on UK banking and financial services law and regulatory matters
- Supporting and advising every team from across the business with effective and wide-ranging legal and strategic advice on a variety of matters including general banking and regulatory matters, contracts, negotiations, documentation, related client issues, employment, pensions, commercial, compliance, IP, IT, litigation, marketing and advertising and data protection
- Support the organisation in managing outside counsel relationships in a demonstrably cost-effective manner
- Legal advice on client relevant and other literature across the business, including review of terms and conditions and advertising. Ensure all output is compliant with current and proposed regulations relating to operation of the Bank
- Deliver and/or provide input to training to the business on regulatory and other legal matters.
- Stay up to date with relevant changes in the law.
What we're looking for:
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience skills and behaviours:
Essential:
- At least five years post qualification experience (PQE is a guide and we'd be open to speak to relevant candidates), ideally to include previous in-house fast-paced environment experience and excellent private practice training in any of general corporate, general banking or TMT team, and can show a detailed knowledge and understanding of retail banking (specifically in relation to products such as first and second charge mortgages and savings accounts)
- You will be driven and able to apply your existing knowledge and approach across a very wide range of legal (and quasi-legal) areas with the ability to escalate issues appropriately
- Able to handle and negotiate multiple transactions, working autonomously, demonstrating drive as well as excellent interpersonal and prioritisation skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills and a fluency in English
- Strong skills in drafting legal documents (corporate documents, internal procedures)
- Excellent academic and law firm credentials or other relevant experience
- Highly customer-centric with a passion to deliver a best-in-class customer experience
- A track record of taking initiative and "getting stuck in"
Desirable:
- An entrepreneurial approach with an ability to operate both at a strategic level and to be hands on
- A positive, self-sufficient leader with excellent communication skills, intellect, and energy
- Very sound judgment and business instinct with a desire to challenge traditional thinking
- Loves to learn about the business and new areas of law, and is willing to apply new skills and knowledge in a commercial context
- Risk-spot and proactively identify legal solutions that act as a control to eliminate or mitigate risk
Benefits
Our rewards are getting a big update, with enhancements due to land throughout 2023!
Current Rewards
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 days bank holiday
- 1 day off for your birthday
- Electric Vehicle scheme
- Free cereal and snacks in the office
- Cycle to work scheme and a free helmet
- Perkbox for treats and discounts
- Pension contribution matched up to 4%
- 2 days per year paid volunteering
Take part in our Green Deal
- Volunteer 2 days a week for charity > receive an early Friday finish
- Raise £200 per annum for charity > Tandem provide PR and marketing support
- Have renewable energy at home > receive an additional 1-day annual leave
- Drive a lower emissions or hybrid car > free raffle entries with the chance to win a weekend away for 2
- Drive an electric car > receive £500 towards a home charger
Sourcing Model
Recruitment at Tandem works primarily on a direct sourcing model and does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list. We are not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company. You can find our Applicant Privacy Policy on our Careers page.
Tandem is an equal opportunity employer and are committed to meeting our responsibilities under the Equality Act (2010). We respect the diverse experience and talents that every individual brings to our Company, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable. Please be aware that background checking (including credit and criminal records checks) form part of our recruitment process. We will adhere to our duties under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
