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We are hiring Legal SME - BFSI domain
Experience - 15yrs plus
Employee type - Contract
Location - UK, London
Job Description:
- Business & Functional Guidance on Legal Workflows as per the client’s interaction
- Help LatentBridge (LB) understand the current legal operations and workflows – including pain points, manual interventions, and compliance bottlenecks.
- Share industry best practices, key considerations, and recommend the legal workflows as per the client’s pain points.
- Advise & guide LB on “To-be” state for the Tech team to develop the solution to achieve operational efficiency.
- Validate the proposed Tech Solution covering:
- Client’s scope and problem statement
- Business & Legal aspects
- Suggest improvements (if any) and future-ready solutions
- Guide & lead on behalf of LB on Legal discussions and client’s workshop (on need basis)
- Help in articulating how the solution would be differentiator and cost-effective for the client.
Requirements/Primary Responsibilities
- Act as the Legal Subject Matter Expert for BFSI transformation, regulatory, and technology initiatives.
- Provide legal and regulatory guidance on banking, capital markets, asset management, payments, insurance, and financial services projects.
- Interpret and translate legal and regulatory requirements into clear business and functional requirements.
- Partner with business stakeholders, compliance, risk, technology, and operations teams to ensure regulatory compliance across initiatives.
- Review and validate business requirements, functional specifications, process documentation, and solution designs from a legal and regulatory perspective.
- Support regulatory change initiatives driven by FCA, PRA, Bank of England, GDPR, MiFID II, EMIR, DORA, Consumer Duty, SMCR, Basel regulations, and other UK/EU financial regulations.
- Perform legal impact assessments for new products, services, and technology implementations.
- Identify legal and compliance risks and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
- Collaborate with project managers, business analysts, architects, and development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
- Review contractual obligations, third-party agreements, outsourcing arrangements, and vendor compliance where required.
- Participate in governance meetings and provide legal guidance during steering committees and stakeholder discussions.
- Support UAT by validating regulatory and legal scenarios.
- Maintain legal documentation, regulatory mappings, and decision logs.
- Provide legal advisory support during audits, regulatory reviews, and internal compliance assessments.
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Regulatory Knowledge
- Strong understanding of one or more of:
- FCA Handbook
- PRA Regulations
- Consumer Duty
- SMCR
- GDPR & UK Data Protection Act
- MiFID II
- EMIR
- DORA
- PSD2 / Open Banking
- Financial Crime
- AML / KYC
- Sanctions
- Financial Promotions
- Operational Resilience
Required Skills
- Strong knowledge of UK financial services regulations
- Experience working with investment banking, retail banking, wealth management, insurance, or capital markets
- Ability to bridge legal, compliance, and business functions
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical and documentation skills
- Experience in regulatory transformation or change programmes
- Ability to simplify complex legal concepts for business and technology teams
- Experience reviewing business requirements and solution documentation
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Preferred Experience
- 10+ years of legal experience within BFSI
- Experience in a top-tier law firm or in-house legal team within a financial institution
- Experience supporting digital transformation or regulatory change programmes
- Knowledge of AI, cloud, data privacy, outsourcing, and technology contracts within financial services
- Experience working in Agile and Waterfall environments
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365
Stakeholders
The role will regularly interact with:
- General Counsel / Legal Leadership
- Compliance
- Risk Management
- Business Heads
- Product Owners
- Technology Teams
- Enterprise Architecture
- Information Security
- Data Privacy
- External Counsel
- Regulators (where applicable)
Key Competencies
- Strategic thinking
- Commercial awareness
- Regulatory expertise
- Decision-making under ambiguity
- Stakeholder influencing
- Negotiation skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication and presentation skills
- Leadership and mentoring
- Problem-solving
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Skills
BFSI Domain Expertise
Regulatory Compliance
Legal Workflow Design
Stakeholder Management
Regulatory Transformation
Legal Impact Assessment
Contract Review
Business Analysis
FCA Regulations
PRA Regulations
GDPR
MiFID II
EMIR
DORA
Consumer Duty
SMCR
Location