SME Legal

• Contract initial 1 yr
  Business & Functional Guidance on Legal Workflows as per the client’s interaction
  • Help LatentBridge (LB) understand the current legal operations and workflows – including pain points, manual interventions, and compliance bottlenecks.
    
  • Share industry best practices, key considerations and recommend the legal workflows as per the client’s pain points.
    
  • Advise & guide LB on “To-be” state for the Tech team to develop the solution to achieve operational efficiency.
    

• Validate the proposed Tech Solution covering
  • Client’s scope and problem statement
    
  • Business & Legal aspects
    
  • Suggest improvements (if any) and future ready
    

• Guide & lead on behalf of LB on Legal discussions and client’s workshop (on need basis)
  • Help in articulating how the solution would be differentiator and cost effective for the client.
    

Requirements

Primary Responsibilities

• Act as the Legal Subject Matter Expert for BFSI transformation, regulatory, and technology initiatives.
  
• Provide legal and regulatory guidance on banking, capital markets, asset management, payments, insurance, and financial services projects.
  
• Interpret and translate legal and regulatory requirements into clear business and functional requirements.
  
• Partner with business stakeholders, compliance, risk, technology, and operations teams to ensure regulatory compliance across initiatives.
  
• Review and validate business requirements, functional specifications, process documentation, and solution designs from a legal and regulatory perspective.
  
• Support regulatory change initiatives driven by FCA, PRA, Bank of England, GDPR, MiFID II, EMIR, DORA, Consumer Duty, SMCR, Basel regulations, and other UK/EU financial regulations.
  
• Perform legal impact assessments for new products, services, and technology implementations.
  
• Identify legal and compliance risks and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
  
• Collaborate with project managers, business analysts, architects, and development teams throughout the project lifecycle.
  
• Review contractual obligations, third-party agreements, outsourcing arrangements, and vendor compliance where required.
  
• Participate in governance meetings and provide legal guidance during steering committees and stakeholder discussions.
  
• Support UAT by validating regulatory and legal scenarios.
  
• Maintain legal documentation, regulatory mappings, and decision logs.
  
• Provide legal advisory support during audits, regulatory reviews, and internal compliance assessments.
  

Regulatory Knowledge

Strong understanding of one or more of:

• FCA Handbook
  
• PRA Regulations
  
• Consumer Duty
  
• SMCR
  
• GDPR & UK Data Protection Act
  
• MiFID II
  
• EMIR
  
• DORA
  
• PSD2 / Open Banking
  
• Financial Crime
  
• AML / KYC
  
• Sanctions
  
• Financial Promotions
  
• Operational Resilience
  

Required Skills

• Strong knowledge of UK financial services regulations
  
• Experience working with investment banking, retail banking, wealth management, insurance, or capital markets
  
• Ability to bridge legal, compliance, and business functions
  
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
  
• Strong analytical and documentation skills
  
• Experience in regulatory transformation or change programmes
  
• Ability to simplify complex legal concepts for business and technology teams
  
• Experience reviewing business requirements and solution documentation
  

Preferred Experience

• 10+ years of legal experience within BFSI
  
• Experience in a top-tier law firm or in-house legal team within a financial institution
  
• Experience supporting digital transformation or regulatory change programmes
  
• Knowledge of AI, cloud, data privacy, outsourcing, and technology contracts within financial services
  
• Experience working in Agile and Waterfall environments
  
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365
  

Stakeholders

The role will regularly interact with:

• General Counsel / Legal Leadership
  
• Compliance
  
• Risk Management
  
• Business Heads
  
• Product Owners
  
• Technology Teams
  
• Enterprise Architecture
  
• Information Security
  
• Data Privacy
  
• External Counsel
  
• Regulators (where applicable)
  

Key Competencies

• Strategic thinking
  
• Commercial awareness
  
• Regulatory expertise
  
• Decision-making under ambiguity
  
• Stakeholder influencing
  
• Negotiation skills
  
• Attention to detail
  
• Communication and presentation skills
  
• Leadership and mentoring
  
• Problem-solving