Legal Counsel
Glasgow or Edinburgh
Hybrid – Permanent
Attractive Salary and Benefits
Iconic Resourcing are delighted to partner with a pioneering and innovative financial services business who is seeking an additional legal counsel to join their established and friendly legal team. The successful individual will have a solid legal background dealing with a broad spectrum of commercial contracts and will be currently working in either private practice or in-house. This is an interesting and varied role which will involve drafting and negotiating a wide scope of contracts for various business areas within the organisation.
This position would suit a solicitor with a good amount of post qualifying experience as you will act as an internal adviser to a range of key stakeholders. So, it’s essential that you are confident and have the necessary expertise and ability to quickly gain credibility and work autonomously. The role can be based in either Edinburgh or Glasgow as the business supports flexible working which includes working from home for part of your week.
Responsibilities:
- Develop knowledge and understanding of key area’s propositions, core business and associated risks and work with those divisions to shape solutions that meet requirements
- Draft, review, negotiate and advise on a wide variety of commercial contracts for our full range of professional services, consulting, online and data services, including tender responses, master services agreements, client contracts, licenses, data protection agreements, non-reliance letters, NDAs and supplier agreements
- Draft best practice notes on topical issues for use across the business, develop and maintain processes, policies, guidance and templates and assist in training
- Support proposition and client-based projects with legal advice
- Support and help drive Legal team initiatives
- Positively contribute to the legal team, creating a professional, effective, high quality and approachable resource for the business
Required Skills and Experience:
- A Scottish or English qualified Solicitor
- Solid experience in commercial contract drafting and negotiation
- Relevant practice based and/or in-house experience, ideally in a regulated environment or financial services or professional services firm
- Proven ability to deliver on projects and initiatives and provide workable solutions
- Good working knowledge of IT systems, such as SharePoint
- Pragmatic and solutions driven
- Flexible, well organized and adaptable
- Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills
- Take ownership and to quickly gain credibility
- Able to use your initiative and work individually or as part of a team
- Possess a pro-active approach and present new ideas and ways of working
To apply for this role, please send your CV or contact Andrew Inglis at Iconic Resourcing for a confidential chat and further details. andrew.inglis@iconicresourcing.com or call 07713 750 724
Not all candidates will meet every single desired qualification or skill. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you.
At Iconic Resourcing we are engaged by many leading organisations across Scotland and our aim is to keep the recruitment process simple. Interviews are likely to be held via our video interviewing platform both with Iconic Resourcing and our client. Please visit our website to view all of our Iconic Jobs across Scotland.
Iconic Resourcing is an equal opportunities employer, and all applications will be treated as such. We act as both an employment business and an employment agency.