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About the Role
Provide legal advice and strategic support on bank regulatory matters and other areas of team coverage, working alongside seasoned regulatory and corporate attorneys and senior stakeholders across the Americas.
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement best practice legal strategies for risk management and compliance.
- Provide legal advice and support to the business on regulatory affairs, including regulatory compliance, risk management, and transactional matters.
- Offer subject matter support in the Legal department’s representation of the bank in legal proceedings related to regulatory matters.
- Review relevant legislation and regulation and create/review legal documents to ensure compliance.
- Conduct legal research and analysis to stay up-to-date on changes in laws and regulations.
- Develop and deliver training programmes to educate employees on applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
- Pro-actively identify, communicate, and provide legal advice on applicable laws, rules, and regulations (LRRs).
- Keep up-to-date with changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area.
- Ensure LRRs are effectively allocated to and adequately reflected within relevant policies, standards, and controls.
- Manage a business function, providing significant input to function-wide strategic initiatives.
- Contribute to and influence policy and procedures for the function.
- Plan, manage, and consult on multiple complex and critical strategic projects.
- Manage the direction of a large team or sub-function, leading other people managers and embedding a performance culture.
- Lead organization-wide projects and act as a deep technical expert and thought leader.
- Train, guide, and coach less experienced specialists.
- Provide information affecting long-term profits, organizational risks, and strategic decisions.
- Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions.
- Manage, coordinate, and enable resourcing, budgeting, and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
- Escalate breaches of policies/procedure appropriately.
- Foster and guide compliance and ensure regulations are observed.
- Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division/Group.
- Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline.
- Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions.
- Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
- Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts.
- Act as spokesperson for the function and business division.
- Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive.
- Demonstrate Barclays Values and Mindset.
- Support Barclays Digital Assets initiatives.
- Serve as lead counsel for regulatory capital issuances and transactions within the US group.
Requirements
- 8+ years of legal experience, including significant experience advising on bank regulatory matters and engaging with banking regulators (Federal Reserve, NY DFS, OCC, and FDIC).
- Experience at a leading law firm and/or within a major financial institution.
- Strong expertise in U.S. bank regulatory prudential requirements, including Regulation Y, Regulation W, Regulation YY, Regulation Q, Regulation O, and Regulation WW.
- Extensive experience assessing legal and regulatory risk in time-sensitive, high-profile, and sensitive situations.
- Proven track record of providing practical, risk-based advice on matters of strategic importance.
- Demonstrated success leading cross-functional regulatory initiatives and driving outcomes through influence.
- Proven track record of independently managing complex domestic and cross-border regulatory matters end-to-end.
- Deep understanding of governance, risk management, and control frameworks within large banking organizations.
- Experience partnering effectively with Compliance, Risk, Audit, and other control functions.
- Presence, maturity, and credibility to engage effectively with senior management, regulators, external counsel, and other key stakeholders.
- A New York law license.
- At least 3 years of experience as an in-house bank regulatory lawyer advising senior management.
- Demonstrated track record of developing trusted-advisor relationships with senior executives and business leaders.
- Strong legal analytical skills.
- Ability to identify practical solutions and clearly communicate complex legal and regulatory concepts.
- Self-motivation and a strong drive for results.
- Track record of taking ownership of significant matters and delivering successful outcomes.
- Exceptional attention to detail.
- Ability to exercise sound independent judgment.
- Strong collaboration and relationship-management skills.
- Emotional intelligence to build trust, foster teamwork, and maintain engagement across stakeholders.
- A positive and pragmatic leadership style.
- Track record of building consensus, maintaining momentum, and driving progress through challenging projects.
- Ability to balance legal precision with commercial and operational considerations.
- Ability to provide actionable advice in a complex, matrixed organization.
Skills
- Bank regulatory matters
- Engaging with banking regulators
- U.S. bank regulatory prudential requirements
- Legal and regulatory risk assessment
- Cross-functional regulatory initiatives
- Independent management of regulatory matters
- Governance, risk management, and control frameworks
- Partnering with control functions
- Senior management engagement
- Legal analytical skills
- Communication of complex legal and regulatory concepts
- Collaboration
- Relationship management
- Leadership
- Building consensus
- Balancing legal precision with commercial and operational considerations
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 8+ years of legal experience
- 3+ years of in-house bank regulatory lawyer experience
Education Level
- New York law license
Salary/Compensations
- $270,000 - $330,000
About the Company
- Barclays is a global financial services provider engaged in retail banking, credit cards, corporate and investment banking, and wealth management services.