Senior Legal Counsel (FTSE Russell and Risk Intelligence)
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Description
- This London based role plays an important role in enabling product innovation, managing legal and regulatory risk, and supporting commercial execution across global markets, focusing on the Risk Intelligence business
- The role is for a senior legal counsel who operates as a trusted partner for business stakeholders, manages matters end-to-end with autonomy, and operates collaboratively within the team
- The role requires a wide range of legal skills and capabilities, partnering with the broader Legal & Compliance team
- The role reports to the Legal Director, Risk Intelligence
- Enable delivery of risk management and commercial objectives for Risk Intelligence, ensuring alignment with Group strategy and regulatory requirements
- Serve as a trusted advisor to business and other functional stakeholders, identifying legal and regulatory risks and supporting strategic business decisions
- Advise on legal and regulatory implications of emerging technologies, data acquisition strategies, AI-enabled products and product roadmap decisions, balancing innovation with legal and regulatory requirements
- Negotiate and manage important, high-value agreements (including data, IP and outsourcing), ensuring robust risk assessment and mitigation
- Partner with stakeholders on the implementation of legal aspects of new product development, regulatory change, market expansion, and strategic initiatives, including AI
- Demonstrate the legal team culture of high performance, inclusion, and continuous development
- Collaborate closely with privacy, litigation, compliance, GRRS and risk teams on disputes, advocacy, regulatory matters, and cross-functional projects
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with legal service providers, ensuring efficiency, value and alignment with business objectives
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant laws and regulations, and ensure the implementation of effective internal controls, policies, and procedures
- Represent Legal at Risk Intelligence governance forums and committees, providing input on risk, compliance, and business transformation
- Contribute to special projects, including group/division/function-wide initiatives, template and playbook development, MLS, regulatory change, and operational improvements in collaboration with the broader L&C teams
- Demonstrated experience as a legal counsel, including managing strategic initiatives
- Fluent in English (written and oral)
- Shows ability to come up with new ideas and novel approaches to problems
- Ability to work both collaboratively and independently with quality judgement, including when to escalate matters to senior members of the Legal and Compliance team and business
- Strong strategic, organizational, operational, analytical, and decision-making skills, with the ability to simplify complex issues and propose solutions that balance legal considerations
- Qualified lawyer with meaningful post-qualification experience in commercial, regulatory, and financial services law
- An enterprise, commercial and solution-oriented mindset, with outstanding commitment to internal and external customer service
- Effective communication and interpersonal skills and capability to build robust working relationships with key stakeholders across different functions, demonstrating desired behaviours, and supporting pragmatic commercial solutions
- Ability to steer stakeholders as a trusted advisor across functions and geographies
- An innovation and efficiency mindset, experience in using AI to deliver automated and efficient legal workflows