Paralegal

Job description

Role: Paralegal

Location: Birmingham

Competitive Salary and Benefits Package

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 the Group

About the Central Legal Team (CLT)

The CLT was established in July 2015 and forms part of the wider legal function at Barclays. It provides a range of legal services to colleagues across the world. The team takes pride in building strong relationships across the bank, facilitating the provision of a collaborative, highly efficient and quality legal service.

The CLT is a strong community of legal professionals from a diverse range of backgrounds including in-house and private practice with experience in sectors including financial services, energy, chemicals, renewable energy, brewing and real estate. The team has a focus on collaboration, support, empowerment, quality, excellence and opportunity.

Overall purpose of role

To support the Barclays Group General Counsel in identifying and managing legal and regulatory risk across the Barclays businesses.

Key Accountabilities

This is a complex advisory role supporting the Personal Banking and Client & Customer Experience legal teams with the following work types:

• Advising on legal and regulatory change, including projects to implement new requirements and changes to controls to ensure compliance;

• Advising project teams on new product launches and product changes;

• Advising on remediation projects; and

• Contributing to lobbying/advocacy and responses to consultations.

• Ensuring that the appropriate frameworks are in place to manage risk appropriately.

• Contributing towards the efficient and effective operation of the team.

• Supporting the operational/administrative elements of the role including management of inboxes, policy tables and MI.

The key stakeholders for this role are:

• Relevant members of the Personal Banking and Client & Customer Experience businesses; and

• The Personal Banking and Client & Customer Experience General Counsel, Personal Banking and Client & Customer Experience Heads of Legal and appropriate members of the Personal Banking and Client & Customer Experience Legal teams.

This role will require effective interpersonal skills as well as the ability to effectively and concisely communicate legally complex concepts and key issues and ideas in written and oral communications. Also necessary are the ability to listen well and tailor communications to audience and situation to ensure timely and effective delivery of information. The ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with legal and business stakeholders as well as manage stakeholder expectations effectively are all key skills.

The following are essential skills for the role:

•Strong analytical ability, solves complex problems creatively and effectively, and proactively maintains specialist skills and knowledge at leading edge standard in order to fulfil the role. Proficient use of technology.

•Organisational awareness – explicitly seeking to understand commercial context and business drivers and support the goals and objectives of others. Removing duplicated effort. Making cost effective procedural changes to improve customer experience.

• Is focused on client and solutions and has the ability to create an effective network within the legal function and broader business.

Risk and Control Objective

Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Barclays Policies and Policy Standards.

Complies with policies, focused on good conduct, governance, controls and doing the right thing, identifies and escalates issues to management and asks the right questions.

Person Specification

Essential

• Demonstrates technical expertise in relevant areas.

• Displays the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship at all times.

• Helps to embed a culture of care where colleagues feel valued, recognised and trusted. Never forgets to say “Thank you”. Recognises diversity, inclusion and citizenship.

• Has the potential to act as an ambassador for the Central Legal Team.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Commercially, business and risk aware. Knows limits and when (and how) to ask for help.

• Computer literate.

• Collaborates effectively across teams and geographies, is a proactive team player and willingness to share expertise. Actively contributes to and supports team

• Accepts responsibility and engenders confidence.

• Willingness to follow process.

• Embraces change and deals well with conflict, is resilient.

• Gives and accepts objective and constructive feedback.

•Is cost aware and compliant, contributing to cost efficiencies.

Preferred

•Knowledge of products and services delivered by the business areas.

• Experience in work carried out by the CLT.

• Hands-on relevant paralegal experience gained either with a law firm or financial institution an advantage.

•Graduate or equivalent. Legal education preferred.

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Purpose and Values

Barclays has a single cross-business Purpose for Barclays and five core Values which underpin it.

Our Purpose is helping people achieve their ambitions in the right way. Put simply this is the answer to the question ‘What is Barclays for?' and it should guide our every action as employees.

Respect

We respect and value those we work with, and the contribution that they make.

Integrity

We act fairly, ethically and openly in all we do.

Service

We put our clients and customers at the centre of what we do.

Excellence

We use our energy, skills and resources to deliver the best, sustainable results.

Stewardship

We are passionate about leaving things better than we found them.