Legal Counsel - Belfast, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

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Overview of Citi

Citi is a leading provider of financial services and investment banking opportunities to financial institutions and corporate clients, governments and retail banking clients, doing business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions and with a legacy reachingback almost 200 years.

Citi is uniquely qualified to provide services to clients with both local and cross border interests.

Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, includingconsumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management.

Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-classproducts and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

Job Overview

Citi's Legal Department in Belfast is a critical part of the Citi organisation that works closely with our London Legal Department based in Canary Wharf and provides legal and compliance coverage for a wide range of financial products and services spanningCiti's global business with a particular focus on that in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business regions.

Citi is committed to running our business in a manner that benefits society and the environment with a strategic focus on corporate citizenshipboth local and global.

The ICG Legal Loans team is a global team providing advisory and transactional support on corporate lending legal documentation, contributions to know how and infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities:

Reviewing, drafting and negotiating a wide range of loan documentation, including confidentiality agreements, marketing materials, commitment documentation, uncommitted and committed loan documentation, guarantees, amendment and waiver documentation andlegal opinions.
Identifying policy/business waivers that may be required.
Identifying legal and franchise risks and opportunities presented by transactions and ensuring that Citi's policy, legal and regulatory standards are maintained.
Liaising with country lawyers as well as other control groups within Citi, such as Risk, Tax and Compliance.
Providing support on loan related aspects of internal infrastructure projects.
The role is to be carried out in close liaison with the London and Tampa based colleagues.

Development Value:

- learn to manage legal risk in a large variety of scenarios typical of an international investment bank;
- come into contact with internal processes and structures across the bank as well as dealing with other groups within legal;
- learn to escalate material issues to senior team members and then on to senior management within the bank; and
- be encouraged to attend training courses covering a broad range of activities related to legal transaction management as well as having access to broader group-wide training available to lawyers in the ICG Legal Loans team.

Knowledge/Experience:

Proven legal advisory experience in financial services.
Ability to multi task and take personal responsibility/ownership of a number of projects concurrently.
Exposure to working in a detail and time sensitive, environment.

Skills:

Exceptional communication skills (both written and oral), including a high level of literacy and clarity of expression.
Good interpersonal communication and influencing skills.
Ability to assimilate complex issues and communicate concisely and clearly.
Excellent technical and analytical skills.
Good attention to detail.
Strong business judgment and commercial awareness.
Ability to project manage, prioritise and organise own workload effectively meeting strict deadlines.
Ability to provide continuous feedback and to follow up regularly on all outstanding issues without prompting.
Ability to work in a professional but demanding environment.
Proactive and shows initiative.
Cooperative, team oriented and collaborative working style.

Qualifications:

PQE advantageous
Educated with a bachelor's degree or equivalent preferably in law/finance/business
Excellent lower academics including English language skills essential

What We Offer
As well as a competitive salary and consideration for a yearly discretionary bonus Citi offer;- 23 days paid annual leave

Award winning pension scheme,
Life assurance and
Private medical insurance with Bupa healthcare.

In addition, we offer a competitive maternity, paternity and adoption leave scheme.

We pride ourselves on our ability to offer employees a number of lifestyle benefits including; on site restaurant and coffee shops, online shopping and concierge service andsubsidised clubs and societies.

Our Select benefit package offers you the opportunity to customise your benefits according to your own lifestyle preferences and includes corporate discounts, memberships and a range of additional extras.

Our vast range of diversity networks and on site multi faith room demonstrates Citi's commitment to growing a diverse workforce.

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Job Family Group:

Legal

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Job Family:

Legal Support

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Time Type:

Full time

Citi is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disabilit