Job Description
Company Introduction
Our client is a leading financial and lifestyle group
Job Responsibilities and Duties
- Reviewing of Terms and Conditions and ancillary agreements for various products and updating from time to time according to need; advising on consumer law, interest, tax issues relating to products;
- Contracts review (employment, commercial, leases, suppliers, service providers etc) and B2B agreements with financial Institutions and Banks (Distributor, Agency, Introducer, etc);
- Review of laws and impact on business (FATCA; Data localization, PSD, MIFID etc);
- Internally advising the departments on dayto-day issues covering a number of issues (employment law, data protection, regulatory matters);
- Crossborder business – Liaising with External Counsel in EU or Third Countries
- Debt collection – liaising with external lawyer and drafting settlement/compromise agreements with delinquent customers as required;
- Legal Budget management
- Communicating with MFSA
Experience
- A Law Degree and at least 3 years’ experience as in house lawyer in a Bank/Financial Services Company;
- Proven experience in a leading a legal team ideally within the financial sector.
Personal Skills
- Strong technical legal skills including drafting and negotiating legal documentation to the highest standard;
- Strong commercial focus with high attention to detail;
- Ability to work to tight deadlines, manage competing deadlines and deliver under pressure
- Proficient in the use of Word and Excel