Senior Legal Counsel Commercial UK

Role Description

You will provide highquality commercially-aligned legal support to FNZs UK business with a focus on enabling customer-focused scalable compliant and innovative solutions across FNZs platform technology and outsourced service offerings. This role acts as a senior legal advisor supporting strategic client relationships and complex commercial arrangements within the UK wealth management ecosystem.

Specific Role Responsibilities

What you will be doing

• Leading the negotiation drafting and management of complex commercial agreements with FNZs key clients including large financial institutions asset managers platforms and distribution partners.

• Supporting endtoend contracting for FNZs technology SaaS data and outsourced services ensuring alignment with FNZs global operating model risk frameworks and regulatory obligations.

• Partnering with senior stakeholders across Commercial Finance Compliance Risk Delivery and Technology teams to support the design and launch of new products digital solutions and service offerings.

• Advising on largescale transformation programmes client migrations and longterm strategic commercial partnerships.

• Supporting governance activities including internal policy development contract standards legal risk management and escalation processes across the UK business.

• Managing external counsel effectively ensuring value and alignment with FNZs business priorities.

• Contributing to the legal teams continuous improvement agenda including template development contracting efficiencies playbooks and legal operations initiatives.

Experience required

What you will need: -

• 8 years of PQE experience

• Background in complex technology outsourcing financial services or regulated business environments ideally with both private practice and inhouse experience.

• Understanding of key UK regulatory frameworks impacting FNZs operations including FCA rules on outsourcing operational resilience governance consumer duty and data protection.

• Demonstrated ability to support major commercial negotiations with large institutions and drive balanced pragmatic outcomes.

• Skilled at simplifying complex legal and contractual positions into clear businessfriendly advice.

• Experience working with crossfunctional teams in fastmoving highscale environments.

• Strong judgement senior stakeholder management and the ability to navigate ambiguity with confidence.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry but complexity holds firms back.

We created wealths growth platform to help. We provide a global end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution.

We partner with the worlds leading financial institutions with over US$2.4 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).

Together with our clients we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.