Legal Counsel

**Barclays Overview**

Barclays is a British universal bank. We are diversified by business, by different types of customers and clients, and by geography. Our businesses include consumer banking and payments operations around the world, as well as a top-tier, full service, global corporate and investment bank, all of which are supported by our service company which provides technology, operations and functional services across the Group.

**We are an equal opportunity employer and we are opposed to discrimination on any grounds.**

Working Flexibly

We’re committed to providing a supportive and inclusive culture and environment for you to work in. This environment recognises and supports ways to balance your personal needs, alongside the professional needs of our business. Providing the opportunity for all our employees, globally to work flexibly empowers each of us to work in a way that suits our lives as well as enabling us to better service our customers’ and clients’ needs. Whether you have family commitments or you’re a carer, or whether you need study time or wish to pursue personal interests, our approach to working flexibly is designed to help you balance your life. If you would like some flexibility, then please discuss this with the hiring manager.

About Legal

The Legal function provides legal advice to all of Barclays’ businesses and infrastructure functions, including areas such as transactional support, litigation management, commercial contract support and general legal advice, and provides dedicated business-aligned support to all divisions of Barclays.

About Private Bank Legal

Barclays Private Bank and Wealth Management (**PBWM**) lawyers provide legal expertise to support the PBWM business. The PBWM business provides banking, credit and investment services to institutional and retail clients located in over 100 jurisdictions. The PBWM itself operates out of a range of jurisdictions; in addition to Switzerland this currently includes the United Kingdom, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Monaco, Ireland, Dubai, India, Singapore and South Africa.

Overall purpose of role

The role holder will:

- Drive the identification and effective management of existing and emerging legal risks in relation to the investment businesses of BarSuisse.
- Provide proactive and commercial legal advice and general risk management support to the PBWM investments business.
- Develop and manage relationships to ensure that the assessment of risks and approach to current and evolving requirements are understood, suitably challenged, agreed and communicated.
- Take time to understand business drivers and operate with accountability.
- Embed and drive the effective delivery of the legal services to BarSuisse, ensuring a collaborative, seamless and consistently excellent service.
- Drive and support the development of an effective and efficient Legal Function across CB&P.
- Coordinate with lawyers across PBWM and CB&P, as required.
- Pursue strong controls and risk management of the BarSuisse and wider PBWM business.
- Liaise proactively and constructively with functional partners.

Key Accountabilities
- Provide support to the BarSuisse Investments team and the wider PBWM investments proposition globally. Key initiatives include private funds, structured products, derivatives, discretionary portfolio management, hedge funds, advice and direct investments.
- Act as a trusted advisor and deliver expert legal advice in relation to the laws and regulations across all investment product sets as well as Swiss ESG regulation.
- Be an active member of the PBWM Legal Investments team who are the primary legal coverage for Investments Products. Provide assistance with cross-platform projects as required, create consistencies/efficiencies across the investment product space and engage on investment regulatory projects impacting not only BarSuisse, but also the wider PBWM business;
- Support cross-border questions that arise from the global nature of BarSuisse’s clients. Provide analysis of cross-border risks associated with the offer, sale and placement of securities as well as the provision of advice and other services;
- Be the primary contact in BarSuisse for all investment legal queries. Help the BarSuisse, Head of Legal manage legal risk and build a consistently excellent legal function. Represent Legal at governance forums as required
- Provide a best in class legal service that enables the PBWM business to deliver on their objectives, whilst effectively managing legal risk and ensuring good outcomes for PBWM clients;
- Provide input to the strategy and delivery of initiatives both within the BarSuisse Legal team, but also the wider PBWM Legal function and Private Bank businesses;
- Have good working knowledge of ESG regulation and manage the legal side of ESG regulatory implementation for BarSuisse. Advise BarSuisse on ESG strategy (working with Barclays ESG teams); and
- Work collaboratively with members of