Legal Counsel (Finance)

Job description

As one of the world's leading power companies, ENGIE is present throughout the energy chain, in electricity and in natural gas, both upstream and downstream. Putting responsible growth at the heart of its activities (energy, energy services and the environment), its mission is to meet the great challenges of satisfying energy requirements, assuring security of supply, combating climate change and optimising the use of resources.

As port of the rollout of the business transformation plan for SSC’s in France and Belgium, the Shared Services Centre (SSC), (Business Support) of ENGIE, under the management of Global Business Support (GBS), is currently seeking:

Legal Counsel (Finance) (M/W)
A Business Support position Finance
Post based in BRUSSELS (Belgium)

Working for a Shared Service Centre means joining a community of men and women, of businesses-support functions for operational entities in the fields of Finance- HR- Purchasing-Real Estate and Logistics-Consultancy and IT.

Your mission

·  you will provide timely legal advice and support to NewCorp and to the Business Units for a variety of financial transactions and projects, such as syndicated and bilateral facilities, guarantee facilities, bonds, securitization transactions, intra-group lending, corporate guarantees, bank guarantees, comfort letters, pledges, project finance, asset finance, treasury management, cash pooling, hedging,…
·  your involvement is mandatory for any transactions of a group entity if one of the contracting parties is a NewCorp entity, whether as principal or as credit support provider, and for those contracts containing clauses that imply direct or indirect obligations of a financial nature for a NewCorp entity

·  you have a European or equivalent Law degree (Master) with minimum 2-3 years relevant in-house experience or in a law firm
·  you have good knowledge of relevant areas of law including finance, contract and securities
·  ability to work with ISDA or similar swaps/derivatives contracts is a plus
·  you are fluent in English, French and Dutch (or possibility to acquire sufficient knowledge of French or Dutch within a very short timeframe)
·  you have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong drafting and negotiation skills, team-spirited
·  you are business minded, financially astute, conversant with financial instruments
·  you are orderly, pragmatic, flexible and positive
·  you have the ability to work efficiently in a broad cultural spectrum
ENGIE offers you

·  a highly competitive salary & fringe benefits package
·  a wide range of training & development opportunities
·  a priority to internal mobility by first presenting new vacancies to our employees
·  a healthy work/life balance is considered as important
·  a wide range of formal and informal networks
Your HR contact person

Gavin Johnston -  Workplace: Brussels