Assistant Manager - Legal Ops

The Opportunity

Put yourself at the heart of the Barclays. A career in banking operations puts you at the very centre of our business strategy. By putting customers at the heart of everything we do, we’re putting our whole business behind our Customer facing teams. As the face of our brand, especially in an increasingly digital world, you'll play a vital role in our customers' financial lives. Here, your voice is heard, and you’ll have the support and opportunities to thrive.

Responsibilities

• Support various business areas with day-to-day initiatives including processing, reviewing, reporting, trading, and issue resolution.
• Collaboration with teams across the bank to align and integrate operational processes.
• Identification of areas for improvement and providing recommendations in operational processes.
• Development and implementation of operational procedures and controls to mitigate risks and maintain operational efficiency.
• Development of reports and presentations on operational performance and communicate findings to internal senior stakeholders.
• Identification of industry trends and developments to implement best practice in banking operations.
• Participation in projects and initiatives to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.

Skills

• Obtain and validate approvals across stakeholders during document negotiation stages using orchestration tools and AI solutions.
• Ensure timely and accurate coordination of approval processes for various agreement types.
• Process mergers by updating systems when two entities merge, ensuring only the surviving entity is reflected.
• Set up non-JB Arms AM/AH in relevant systems, leveraging orchestration tools for efficiency.
• Execute post-execution data capture for ISDA and local law equivalents, manually rekeying data points based on playbooks and ensuring records are created and quality checked for downstream Treasury tracking.
• Support Legal Onboarding milestones, including reviewing products, validating regulatory requirements, and tracking exceptions for Jetbridge products.
• Perform data remediation for both business-as-usual (e.g., EM/LIBRA breaks) and ad hoc exercises (e.g., TCP), utilizing process enhancements, document repositories, and AI.
• Support bail-in and stay remediation activities, contributing to CCLT controls redesign and document repository management.
• Demonstrates accuracy in data entry and review, ensuring high-quality outputs.
• Carefully follows guidelines and SOPs for data enrichment and validation.
• Willingness to learn and develop proficiency with orchestration tools, AI solutions, and document repositories.
• Ability to support document upload, metadata management, and document splitting tasks.
• Capable of conducting QA reviews and identifying discrepancies in data outputs.
• Supports the resolution of data exceptions and facilitates SME review.
• Works effectively within a team, coordinating with Team Managers and SMEs to resolve queries.
• Communicates clearly and professionally when raising issues or seeking guidance.

Benefits

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About Us

We’re a global, vital and highly respected financial organisation with an inspiring Purpose. Operating in 39 countries and employing around 100,000 people across the world, we help communities, individuals and businesses thrive. And we’ve created financial solutions and technology that the world now takes for granted.