Securities Services Lawyer - Assistant Vice President

JOB DESCRIPTION

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated Securities Services Lawyer to join the J.P. Morgan Legal Department.

As a Securities Services Lawyer - Assistant Vice President within the EMEA Securities Services legal team, you will have the opportunity to work closely with the Securities Services business on client negotiations, product development, development of legal policies and controls, regulatory change projects, day-to-day business support, and complex new business transactions. You will also support the Payments Services business and Luxembourg businesses more broadly. This role offers extensive, independent contact with, and support of, senior business personnel and significant opportunity for career development within the wider EMEA Securities Services legal team.

Job responsibilities

• Provide legal guidance and expertise to product teams throughout Europe, specifically although not limited to Luxembourg and the EEA, including general advice and negotiation and drafting of transaction documentation and contracts.
• Provide day-to-day legal advice and guidance on securities services and payments related products and services offered to an international client base and generally, ad hoc legal advice, as required.
• Work with product teams and respective industry groups to assess and implement new regulatory requirements.
• Assess and advising on legal and regulatory risk, reviewing policies and procedures and processing changes to mitigate risk.
• Instruct and liaise with external counsel, as required.
• Advise product teams on the development and implementation of new products and potential legal/regulatory issues.
• Participate in projects and the development of operational processes which have a legal impact.
• Liaise with business representatives and legal/compliance colleagues and other control functions (e.g. credit, tax etc.) in EMEA and globally (US and Asia).

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• 2+ years of relevant legal experience gained within a law firm and/or in the legal department of a financial institution, asset management company or other financial services company.
• Luxembourg or EU qualified lawyer licensed to practice law.
• Strong background in investment funds, including fund formation, management, and wind down; broader financial services experience would be ideal.
• Ability to understand the business’s needs and partner with product teams to create solutions.
• Excellent relationship management and people skills, with the ability to get along with a broad mix of people and personality styles. You must be able to form and maintain strong working relationships within the legal department, with clients and stakeholders, and work well within a team environment.
• The ability to work independently, prioritize and manage projects effectively, escalating key issues where necessary.
• Strong negotiation and drafting skills.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

ABOUT US J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.
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ABOUT THE TEAM
Our professionals in our Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we’re setting our businesses, clients, customers and employees up for success.

With large, global operations, the Legal team tackles complex issues and helps shape the regulations that affect the businesses. The group is organized into practice groups that align with the lines of business and corporate staff areas, which encourages collaboration on legal, regulatory and business developments as they arise.