Job description
Our team is at the heart of building this new venture, focused on developing offerings that put the customer at the centre. We have created a new organization and we are looking for solution-oriented, commercially minded, customer-focused specialists, used to working in an agile environment who want to be a part of building something new from the ground up within a diverse and inclusive team.
Culture is as important to us and we are looking for intellectually curious, new technology passionate individuals who would like to expand their skills whilst working on a new exciting venture for the firm. Your work will have a massive impact, both on us as a company, as well as our clients and our business partners around the world.
Responsibilities include:
- Working on legal analysis involving development of new retail products, most specifically retail lending
- Negotiation of commercial contracts, marketing, and financial promotion materials,
- Monitoring regulatory developments, including consultation papers,
- Drafting and oversight of contents and execution of documents, including communications with respect to complaints, disputes, litigation, etc.
- Providing support to special projects in retail
- Liaising with outside counsel
- Performing legal research on a variety of issues relating to retail matters
Qualifications
- Material experience in UK in-house legal departments of financial services industry
- Knowledge of UK retail matters and litigation matters
- Experience with legal analysis of product development, more specifically retail lending, payments, and deposits
- Material experience with UK commercial contracts, marketing, and financial promotion analysis
- Experience with issue spotting key regulatory requirements, including US regulations (Reg K, Reg W, EBA, PRA), etc.
- Experience with liaising with regulatory bodies, such as FCA, ICO, etc.
- Working knowledge of legal research platforms
- Strong PC skills (knowledge of MS Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Excellent organizational skills
- Team player who can collaborate with the Legal and operations groups
- Ability to interact effectively and professionally at all levels
Preferred Skills
- Knowledge of retail matters and litigation matters
- Knowledge of retail back office matters
- Knowledge of collaboration tools like SharePoint
J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. In accordance with applicable law, we make reasonable accommodations for applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as any mental health or physical disability needs.