Assistant Legal Counsel

6 months ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom CALA Group Full time

**About The Role**:
**Key Responsibilities**
- Providing accurate, relevant and commercially focussed advice to the business on a variety of legal topics
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts and agreements
- Managing and mitigating risks by drafting and implementing company policies and procedures
- Promoting legal, compliance and risk management best practice throughout the business
- Communicating with, and managing, third parties such as external solicitors or auditors
- Designing and delivering legal training to the business
- Carrying out anti-money laundering, and general compliance, audits
- General support on property matters
- Company secretarial duties
- Conducting legal research
- Staying up to date with, and ahead of, changes to legislation, particularly in relation to laws, rules and regulations, which affect the business and industry
- Liaising with members of staff across the business

The above list of duties is not exclusive or exhaustive and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

**Experience, Skills and Knowledge**

**About You**:

- Edinburgh - Office Based Role (hybrid working policy - minimum of three days in the office)
- Full Time
- 37.5 hours per week
- Monday to Friday
- Permanent position

**Scope of Role**

We are looking to recruit an Assistant Legal Counsel to join the Legal team based in Cala's Head Office in Edinburgh. Reporting to the Head of Legal, you will contribute to a dedicated team, which strives to provide accurate, relevant, and commercially focussed advice to the business.



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