Structured Products EME Advisory Lawyer

Overview

As a Structured Products EME Advisory Lawyer, you will provide legal advice and support to the business units within the Markets division, focusing on matters arising in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria related to the products and services offered by the German and Swiss Structured Notes Teams. This role entails regular engagement with regulatory authorities, collaboration with external law firms, and close cooperation with front office colleagues, business managers, and legal and business teams across departments such as Treasury and Wealth. Additionally, you will support both automation and manual drafting teams and oversee programme updates. This role is a permanent fulltime position based in Frankfurt, Germany.

Purpose of the role

To ensure that the activities of the business units in the Markets division are conducted in compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal risk associated with these activities.

Accountabilities

• Development and implementation of best practice legal strategies to manage compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations.
• Legal advice and support to the business units in the Markets division on matters arising from the relevant products/services provided by the Markets division.
• Subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to the Markets business units such as litigation, arbitration, and regulatory investigations.
• Creation and review of legal documents for the business units in the Markets division to ensure the bank’s compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations. Maintaining and updating template legal documentation for the Markets division.
• Legal research and analysis to stay up to date on changes in applicable laws, rules and regulations that may impact the activities of the bank's Markets business units.
• Developing and delivering training programmes to educate employees on legal and regulatory requirements related to the activities of the Markets business units.
• Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.

Qualifications and experience

• A qualified German lawyer with experience in a top-tier private practice, preferably with prior in-house experience at a leading financial institution, ideally within the Markets Division.
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) with extensive experience in Structured Products, particularly those sold indirectly to retail investors in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
• Excellent drafting skills of Structured Products documentation, including Base Prospectuses and Final Terms.
• Fluency in German language is required.

Skills and attributes

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, complex, and multi-dimensional environment.
• A strong commercial acumen with a keen interest in performance drivers and a passion for continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying highly technical qualitative analysis and advice clearly and concisely to both legal and non-legal audiences, both orally and in writing.

Assessment and leadership expectations

• You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
• Vice President Expectations: To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department’s future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance and contribute to employee pay decisions/changes. May lead specialists to influence operations, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• Leadership behaviours: demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard (Listen, Energise, Align, Develop).
• For individual contributors, act as a subject matter expert guiding technical direction, lead multi-year assignments, and train and coach less experienced specialists.
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business-aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, and use extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

Barclays values

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.