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Legal Counsel
Department: CSG - Business Operations (Audit / Risk / Client Account Management / Finance / Legal / People / Procurement / Property and Facilities / Sales and BD / IT)
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Remote - England and Wales
Description
Join Our Group Legal Team
We're seeking an experienced and commercially minded Legal Counsel to join our Group Legal (GL) team. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping legal, regulatory, governance and financial crime compliance across a growing business.
As part of a newly established and evolving legal function, you'll work closely with colleagues across the business, providing expert legal guidance and helping to ensure the organisation operates within a robust legal and regulatory framework. While the role has a strong focus on Financial Crime and Sanctions, you'll also support a broad range of legal, governance and commercial matters.
This position is ideal for a capable legal professional who enjoys variety, thrives in a collaborative environment, and can balance technical expertise with practical commercial solutions.
What you will do?
Legal Advisory & Business Support
- Provide high-quality, pragmatic legal and commercial advice across the business.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments, assessing their impact and recommending appropriate actions.
- Support business stakeholders with governance, risk management and compliance matters.
- Build strong relationships across the organisation, promoting legal awareness and compliance best practice.
- Deliver training and guidance on legal and regulatory topics.
- Support strategic projects and business initiatives from a legal and risk perspective.
- Assist with business continuity planning and wider strategic programmes.
Financial Crime & Sanctions
You will play a leading role in helping the business maintain effective financial crime compliance arrangements, including:
- Advising on anti-money laundering (AML) obligations and regulatory requirements.
- Supporting client onboarding, due diligence and enhanced due diligence processes.
- Reviewing and approving higher-risk client acceptance matters.
- Managing Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) and liaising with relevant authorities where required.
- Providing guidance on sanctions compliance and emerging sanctions regulations.
- Leading work related to tax evasion prevention and fraud risk management.
- Developing and maintaining AML, financial crime and sanctions policies, controls and procedures.
- Coordinating financial crime-related audits and reviews.
- Delivering training to colleagues across the business.
Contracts & Commercial Support
- Support the drafting, review and negotiation of client, supplier and third-party contracts.
- Provide commercially focused advice to support contract negotiations.
- Assist with supplier due diligence and third-party risk management processes.
- Support responses to client due diligence and compliance questionnaires.
Data Protection, Governance & Regulatory Compliance Support
- Support regulatory reporting, investigations and compliance reviews.
- Assist with annual compliance processes and practising certificate renewals.
- Support claims, complaints and regulatory enquiries.
- Conduct thematic reviews and assist with regulatory risk assessments.
Who you are
We're looking for someone who combines strong legal expertise with a practical, solution-focused approach.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Qualified lawyer with an appropriate legal qualification and degree.
- Experience in legal, regulatory, governance, compliance or risk-related roles.
- Knowledge of AML, financial crime, sanctions or broader regulatory frameworks.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Commercially aware, pragmatic and solutions focused.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively under pressure.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills.
- Experience of improving, simplifying or automating processes.
- High attention to detail and organisational skills.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office applications.
Personal Attributes
- Collaborative team player with a proactive approach.
- Self-motivated and able to work independently.
- Adaptable and positive in a changing environment.
- Committed to maintaining high professional and ethical standards.
- Flexible to travel between offices when required, including occasional overnight stays.
Why Join Us?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a developing legal function where you'll have genuine influence across the organisation. You'll gain exposure to a diverse range of legal, commercial, governance and regulatory matters while helping shape best practice and supporting business growth.
We operate a Flex-Forward approach to hybrid working, with a blend of office and home-based working agreed with your line manager following the successful completion of probation.
If you're looking for a varied and impactful legal role where you can make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.
If you're looking for a varied and impactful legal role where you can make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.
What's in it for you?
- High levels of flexibility and a great work life balance - https://www.dacbeachcroft.com/en/Work-with-us/Whats-in-it-for-you
- A well-rounded remuneration package (which includes private medical insurance, income protection insurance and discounted gym membership, amongst many other benefits)
- Opportunities for growth and progression including professional funding
- In person and remote social events
- Opportunity to get involved in a range of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) activities
We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, which aligns closely to our cultural principles (Determined, Clear, Creative and Supportive). If you are excited about this role and being part of our culture, but your past experience does not align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles!
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