Legal Counsel - Litigation, Investigations and Enforcement
Glasgow or London

As a Barclays Legal Counsel - Litigation, Investigations and Enforcement, you will advise on and manage claims and potential claims by or against Barclays. You will work within a team managing and advising on internal and external investigations (including enforcement and regulatory investigations) and contentious regulatory issues. Proactively determining and managing legal and regulatory risks and opportunities relating to Barclays’ business and its clients to manage those risks effectively will be part of your role.

Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, established in 1690, with a legacy of success, quality, and innovation. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.

At Barclays, we offer a hybrid working experience that blends the positives of working alongside colleagues at our onsite locations, together with working from home. We have a structured approach where colleagues work at an onsite location on fixed, ‘anchor’, days of the week, for a minimum of two days a week or more, as set by the business area (or nearest equivalent if working part-time hours). Please discuss the working pattern requirements for the role you are applying for with the hiring manager. Please note that as we continue to embed our hybrid working environment, we remain in a test and learn phase, which means that working arrangements may be subject to change on reasonable notice to ensure we meet the needs of our business.

What will you be doing?
• Directing, overseeing, and supervising litigation, investigations and enforcement matters relating to Barclays’ business and its clients in EME
• Advising on and managing legal and regulatory risk issues relating to Barclays’ business and its clients in EME
• Liaising with other members of the team, the wider Legal Function & business stakeholders, in relation to LIE cases and the management of legal and regulatory risk within EME
• Ensuring the on-line case management system is kept up to date in relation to LIE cases and assisting with the provision of monthly reports to business heads and other key stakeholders
• Developing effective relationships with other members of the Litigation, Investigations & Enforcement Function, and the Legal Function generally
• Managing and leading on stakeholder expectations in relation to case management, including providing proactive updates and reporting of developments in contentious risks
• Contributing to the development of a 'community practice' within the LIE Function, including developing shared expertise, professional standards, and team practices and procedures

What we’re looking for:

• English Qualified lawyer (Solicitor or Barrister) or equivalent
• Well established experience with English law/English proceedings before English Courts
• Managing litigation for financial institutions
• Experience of working on internal and external investigations and regulatory requests for financial institutions

Skills that will help you in the role:
• Understanding of the requirements of legal risk management in a financial institution
• Previous experience working in-house within the financial services industry and/or working on financial services matters at a law firm
• Knowledge of General banking law

Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as; a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.

Our new state-of-the-art Campus, right in the heart of Glasgow is a hub of creative collaboration. A place where everyone can bring their true selves to work and reach their full potential. Home to 5,000 of our colleagues, our Tradeston campus will support the community in more ways than one - by creating thousands of new career opportunities and celebrating local artists. A short walk from Central Station on the south of the Clyde, it will be a key location for the Barclays business that will deepen our ties with the city and its communities.

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