Job Description:

Vice President - Transaction Services & Contract Negotiation

Purpose of the Role:

To oversee and manage transactional processes, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and maintaining accurate documentation for financial transactions.

Accountabilities:

- Ensure that Transaction Services and Documentation activities comply with applicable laws and regulations, helping to manage legal and reputational risks.

- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders, including legal counsel, credit risk management, and other departments, to ensure timely and efficient transaction execution.

- Create, review, negotiate, and manage legal documents such as loan agreements, security documents, and other transactional documents to ensure prompt execution.

- Provide transaction support, including the preparation of transaction summaries, conducting due diligence, and supporting other departments as needed.

- Develop and implement transaction processes and procedures to ensure consistency in execution.

- Proactively identify, communicate, and provide legal advice on applicable laws, rules, and regulations. Monitor changes to rules in the relevant coverage area and ensure they are effectively allocated to and reflected within relevant policies, standards, and controls.

Vice President Expectations:

Strategy & Planning:

- Contribute to or set strategy, drive requirements, and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures.

People Management:

- Define jobs and responsibilities, plan for the department's future needs and operations, counsel employees on performance, and contribute to pay decisions/changes. Lead a team of specialists to influence operations in alignment with strategic and tactical priorities.

Leadership Behaviours:

- Demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, and Develop others.

Subject Matter Expertise:

- Serve as a subject matter expert within the discipline and guide technical direction. Lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members. Train, coach, and mentor less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long-term profits, organisational risks, and strategic decisions.

Stakeholder Management:

- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management, on functional and cross-functional areas of impact and alignment.

Risk & Control:

- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment in support of the control and governance agenda. Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls within the team's work.

Business Acumen:

- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the organisation's functions to contribute to achieving business goals. Collaborate with other areas of work to stay abreast of business activity and strategies.

Problem Solving:

- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought, comparing and selecting complex alternatives. Use in-depth analysis and interpretative thinking to define problems and develop innovative solutions. Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem-solving processes.

Relationship Management:

- Seek out, build, and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills.

Core Values:

- Demonstrate core values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and embody the mindset to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Role Specifics:

- This role is part of the largest team within the Legal department, focused on drafting, negotiating, and executing master and collateral agreements and ancillary documentation (e.g., ISDAs, GMRAs, GMSLAs, Futures Agreements) for the global Markets client-facing franchise. You will conduct diligence, negotiate directly with clients, and engage extensively with internal stakeholders such as credit risk, sales and trading, collateral management, treasury, tax, and client onboarding.

Candidate Requirements:

- A Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Law.

- Expertise in the negotiation of financial markets contracts such as ISDA Master Agreements (including IM and VM credit support annexes), GMRA, MRA, GMSLA, MSFTA, FXPB, and the Equities Prime Brokerage suite.

- A strong grasp of industry netting & collateral opinions, regulatory requirements, and jurisdictional nuances (e.g., IM/VM requirements under various regulatory regimes).

- The ability to expertly manage a negotiations portfolio, support team members in managing client negotiations, perform supervisory checks, and highlight gaps in approvals, drafting, processes, or systems.

- The ability to assess documentation templates, current processes, systems, or approvals and provide workable solutions/alternatives to stakeholders or within the team.

- Experience in managing projects within a clearly defined framework with an emphasis on strong commercial management alongside quality and timely legal deliverables.

- Strong leadership, communication, time management, and organizational skills with a risk & controls mindset.

- Openness to flexible work hours.

Key Critical Skills:

- Risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.