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Legal Director
2 days ago
**Legal Director**
**About the role**
Lastly, this role will work closely with the Arval UK Managing Director and the rest of the Executive Team, and play a key part in various forthcoming regulatory changes including the Senior Manager Regime and GDPR.
**Department Overview**
The Arval UK Legal team serves the Arval UK business, covering consumers, SME and large corporate customers as well as working alongside legal colleagues from other countries where Arval has a presence, including Arval Corporate Centre lawyers in France,and liaising closely with BNP Paribas territory legal management in the UK.
The team also works with legal colleagues from the Corporate Investment Bank in London particularly on data protection, litigation, employment law and intellectual property and technology matters and with other BNPP company lawyers in the UK in order togain and share know-how/expertise.
Pay Zone level D
This role is eligible for Hybrid working (up to 2 days working from home per week).
**Salary range: £110 - 130,000 plus £33k bonus, Car/cash allowance (£8.5k pa) & superb corporate benefits**
**About you**
We are looking for someone with a sound grasp of the UK Legal regulatory landscape. Particularly in relation to the Consumer Credit Act, as our retail & consumer business continues its upward trajectory. Experience within a multi-national matrix style Financialservices organisation would be an excellent background. Managing multiple 'Managers' across countries brings its own challenges and you will need to have experienced these.
As important though will be your approach so you'll need to be good with people. Your key stakeholders will expect you to understand their commercial viewpoint and so a creative solution focused mindset is a must, along with a large dollop of resilience.Your unflappable nature will add to the technical credibility you readily display.
Lastly, you will lead a small but perfectly formed team so you will need to evidence the ability and willingness to move from strategic to 'hands on' at the drop of a hat.
**Essential Experience**
- English law qualified senior solicitor or barrister with substantial experience gained in both private practice and an in-house function, ideally within a large corporate in the area of commercial law.
- Broad experience in commercial contracts (preferably including experience in banking or financial services) with a particular interest in leasing and / or lending.
- Experience with the Consumer Credit Act and related consumer regulations to include data protection and competition law preferred. Knowledge of employment law would be a bonus.
**Essential Skills & Competencies**
- Gravitas, first class communication and influencing skills with executive team.
- Strong manager, able to drive a strong work ethic and develop team members, whilst steering the function to help achieve business strategy.
- Strong character who is also a real business partner, able to offer sound legal support and provide timely solutions.
- Flexibility with a hands-on work style.
- Robust yet approachable nature, with the ability to act calmly and professionally in a demanding and fast moving business environment.
- Independent, thorough and commercially minded, with strong time management and prioritising skills.
The ability to speak French would be helpful but not essential.
**What's in it for you?**
Culturally, we are a friendly bunch - more human, than corporate. We expect a lot but know that works both ways so offer our Journey Makers a fantastic employee experience end to end.
All our offices are welcoming and refreshed to reflect our new ways of working in a post-COVID, forward thinking digital and hybrid setting. You will be given the perfect environment to do your work to the highest standards possible, as well as the opportunitiesto develop your own career.
You will be joining a family - where, together, we are all pushing the limits of what's possible for our customers and for each other. We're an excellent mix of new and longer serving Journey Makers, all working together to constantly improve the servicewe offer all our customers. Sharing experience, ideas and creative solutions is what we do best.
This is a Pay Zone D role with a salary range of £110 - 130,000 plus an annual bonus (up to £33k). You will also enjoy the enhanced benefits of Company Car or £8.5k cash allowance, Family Private Healthcare (AXA PPP), Life Assurance, a great Company Pensionscheme, a range of personal flexible benefits, as well as the usual 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays and you birthday off too), and access to great discounts on our products and services.
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