About the Role
The Titan Wealth Legal team seeks a proactive and resilient candidate for a challenging and rewarding Wealth Management legal role focusing on regulatory advisory work. This position requires managing a diverse workload, including staying updated on regulatory developments, advising on implementations, and assessing implications of new business initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Advise on and interpret regulations issued by financial regulatory bodies, including the FCA and other relevant regulators, in conjunction with Titan Wealth compliance colleagues and external legal counsel where required.
- Act as the primary legal point of contact for all regulatory legal queries and enquiries.
- Act as the primary legal point of contact for developments and implementation of regulatory compliance programmes and projects.
- Draft, review and negotiate agreements, contracts and other legal documents in line with current regulatory requirements, utilising external legal counsel when required.
- Ensure the timely and effective communication of legal risks associated with regulatory developments to the relevant business areas.
- Oversee the appointment and management of external legal counsel on regulatory legal matters ensuring that the advice and support provided is in line with budgetary requirements whilst ensuring that the advice and support provided is commercial, risk based and of high quality.
- Oversee / monitor more junior members of the team (as appropriate) and be willing to take online management responsibilities.
- Assist with enabling product launches, supporting new permissions, managing regulatory risk in integration and improving processes/template.
- Working closely with the legal, compliance and vendor team.
Requirements
- Legal qualification: 6 + yrs PQE with broad regulatory legal experience working within a regulated financial services organization and/or law firm.
- In-house experience is desirable but not compulsory.
- A well rounded, broadly based and highly regarded regulatory legal specialist with first rate academic credentials, demonstrable intellectual abilities and an excellent career track record to date.
- An in-depth understanding of the financial services industry and demonstrable wide-ranging regulatory legal expertise.
- A business oriented lawyer with the breadth of experience covering a broad range of legal and regulatory issues across the entire Group, individual business areas and central functions.
- Ability to think strategically and creatively see legal issues in their wider context and advise accordingly.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong organisational skills and judgement, excellent analysis, drafting and negotiation skills.
- Self-motivated to drive delivery against objectives and an ability to work autonomously and manage own caseload effectively.
- Willingness to learn and build good working relationships with internal stakeholders, identifying areas of improvement in relation to contractual documentation, policies, procedures and standards, working closely with Compliance colleagues.
- Accustomed to operating in a high-paced environment and with a successful track record of aligning legal priorities and business goals.
- An ability to provide commercial, risk based and incisive legal advice, guidance and support with sound legal judgement.
- Experience in vendor / platform onboarding (SaaS, custody, data providers), outsourcing and operational resilience, data protection / cross‑border structuring.
Skills
- Regulatory advisory (UK and international)
- Managing diverse workload
- Keeping abreast of regulatory developments
- Advising on regulatory implementations
- Assessing regulatory implications of new business initiatives
- Interpreting regulations
- Legal point of contact for regulatory queries
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements
- Communicating legal risks
- Managing external legal counsel
- Team supervision
- Product launches
- New permissions
- Regulatory risk management
- Process improvement
- Vendor / platform onboarding
- Outsourcing
- Operational resilience
- Data protection
- Cross-border structuring
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid working
Experience Level
- 6+ years PQE
Education Level
- Legal qualification
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Attractive Employee Pension Scheme (7.5% employer & minimum 3% employee)
- 25 days Annual Leave + public holidays
- Buy and sell holidays up to 5 days
- Office Christmas close (3-days)
- Private medical insurance
- Group life insurance
- Income protection insurance
- Further education and training support
- Discretionary performance related bonus
- Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
- 2 days per year for voluntary work
- Flexible benefits
About the Company
- Titan Wealth is a fast-growing wealth management business, both in the UK and internationally.
- It has evolved a fairer, more efficient and effective business model, structured to deliver leading advice-led wealth management services, giving financial advisers and their clients the best opportunity to fulfil their dreams and ambitions.
- We provide a dynamic work environment full of opportunity, one where both individual and team initiative and contribution is encouraged, so that together we can deliver better outcomes for our clients over the long term.
- Embrace Company values of Creativity, Commitment, and Collaboration.
Equal Opportunity
- The Titan Wealth Group is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for everyone who works with us, regardless of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or disability, or political affiliation.
- We believe that having a diverse team allows us to create the best possible outcomes for our clients and team members.
- We strive to provide equal opportunities in all aspects of the workplace with respect to recruitment and career advancement, pay and benefits, training and development opportunities and other job-related activities.
