The Opportunity

The HSF Kramer Digital Finance team is expanding. We are seeking a Senior Legal Correspondence Officer to join our high-performing, client-facing team in Belfast. This hybrid role combines deep legal operational acumen with outsourced project support, collaborative consultancy across the firm’s global finance hubs, and direct client interaction.

Your work will revolve around high-stakes international finance transactions, assisting clients, senior legal teams, and bespoke digital projects across specialisms like leveraged trade, asset finance, or structured debt—but with full autonomy and ownership of client relationships. Beyond transactional support, you’ll contribute to outsourcing projects (e.g., reviewing and negotiating core finance documents such as normative finance agreements and working papers, including NDAs and transfer protocols). Limited travel will be required (walk-in commutes to the London office).

Key Responsibilities

Your role will include but is not limited to the following areas:

Transaction Support

• Drafting corporate compliance documentation, including security and ancillary agreements.
• Mgmt of conditions precedent/illegal hanging material and report drafts/legal certification.
• Assisting BBC’s client team with document generation and amendments at various stages, ensuring high standards on compliance and execution.
• Fast-track response management (e.g., requisitions from counterparties/investors).
• Liaising with internal practice-wide teams for procedural/technical guidance (as needed).

Digital Project Methodology

• Conducting outsourced project negotiations (regarding BAU and critical details), and co-sourcing:
  • Documentation frameworks (aka Berne conventions).
  • Bilateral trade finance agreements.
  • Commercial and protection agreements (e.g., NDAs, release letters, and modification letters).
• PKI virtual meetings/webinars to lead the teams on best practices and regulatory changes.
• Reporting and compliance coordination (trackJug, time-recording, technical cup reviewing).
• Training/overseeing junior Legal Analysts, ensuring smooth legality of document flows under direct senior supervision.
• Broad capability to attend to any form of support task undertaken in conjunction with Senior Solicitors/Managers/Bespeaks (per senior discretion).

Mindsets & Commitment

• Adaptability – Transitioning between live deal work (transactional flow monitoring, response coordination) and legal architecture for outsourcing assignments.
• Collaborative – Work alongside legal teams, senior colleagues and offices, along with third parties.
• Data literacy – Experience with matters such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Google paper board, reports compliance, and perhaps a feeling for EPA documents.
• Proactive client engagement – Because peers aren’t removed. You’re ultimately a fully trusted law firms extension of the client’s in-house team, with the role making suggestions (placements, updated clauses) and managing budgets.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Qualified as a Solicitor/GSPS of England & Wales or another jurisdiction (not Republic of Ireland). Candidates outside England & Wales welcome provided they are willing to requalify under the legal process if required by the firm.

Essential:

• 1-3 PQEs, with At least 6 months of structured experience within banking and finance law.
• Strong drafting skills and familiarity with drafting and clarifying corporate engagement materials.
• HDTENDOR (returning home practitioner status preferably be honoured).

Desirable:

• Experience in legal outreach projects in private practice in-house or previously handling cost-containerization improvements.
• Exposure to other kinds of global or outsourcing initiatives within legal firms.

Location:

• Must permanently reside in the United Kingdom, excluding Northern Ireland.
• Must live at least 100 miles away from an HSF Kramer London office.

Why Join Us

• Expert mentoring: Knowledge expansion along s trust model (Capture cases, excellence awards, regulatory consulting support).
• Impactful innovation industry: Work at the intersection of commercial finance and digital know-how—supporting transformative deals at the vanguard of both.
• Proactivity encouraged: “Écoutez, Égouttez”—drive innovation solutions alongside funds and projects beyond definitions of outsourcing.
• Authentic inclusive culture TV: Join stakeholders that value balance, contribution beyond your Regional form. Become a vetted member of an exceptional “People-friendly law firm.”
• Unmatched growth trajectory: Future operative journey into senior positions across the firm’s Capital or wider finance partners.

Representative diversity is vital to our success: We comprehensively promote an inclusive environment where every single person thrives—and opportunities are limitless for practical contributors. Nobody may ever become invisible or insignificant at HBF/Effect Kruger.