Job Description:
Title: Legal Negotiator, EMEA Contract Management
Corporate Title: Vice President
Location: London
Company Overview
At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.
One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We're devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
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Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organisation.
Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!
Role Description
An exciting opportunity to join the Contract Management team sitting within the Global Payment Services (GPS) line of business. The team currently consists of 40+ Contract Managers across EMEA, APAC, and the US with key focuses for providing support on the negotiation of GPS contracts with clients in minimising risk exposure to the Bank; maximising the client experience; minimising cost; minimising cycle times and improving time to revenue; providing industry leading document, negotiation, and advisory support to GPS clients; and documentation simplification and digitisation.
You will be an integral part of the team working closely with a variety of colleagues across the business. This role is your opportunity to expand and strengthen your legal knowledge, refine your negotiation skills, have visibility of the evolving regulatory banking environment, express your passion and share ideas, understand innovative approaches to transaction banking, with an appealing prospect of professional growth within Bank of America and the banking industry.
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for preparing, reviewing, and negotiating various agreements with a focus on account opening, payments, collections, liquidity, multibank, channels, banknote and other treasury products and services but also with the option to work on other GPS contracts.
- Negotiating Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) and reviewing Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for Non-Standard contractual issues.
- Addressing related credit, risk compliance, legal, operational and business issues by applying experience, industry standards and knowledge of account documentation, cash management, banking/finance products, broader transaction banking industry, and Bank of America policies.
- Co-ordinating and facilitating communication between various stakeholders and clients to promptly resolve documentation issues.
- Organising and prioritising a large number of competing, complex documentation assignments to meet customer needs within short timeframes will be key to your success.
- Facilitating communications among sales, implementation, product, operations, compliance, operational risk, credit risk, legal and client managers to promptly resolve documentation issues.
- Managing projects within & outside Contract Management team with an aim to streamline documentation and improve client experience.
- Advising and educating internal associates about documentation standards and options, policies and procedures.
Requirements
- Experience drafting/negotiating various legal contracts & NDAs. And experience in conducting negotiation effectively in a customer facing role, preferable within the banking and finance industry.
- Ability to maintain objectivity in identifying critical legal issues, weighing risks and balancing competing objectives of bank risk with client needs and satisfaction to achieve optimal results.
- A Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Law and legal background/experience as a qualified Lawyer or paralegal.
- Excellent analytical, verbal and written communications skills, comfortable representing the bank in communications with associates, clients and internal/external counsel at all levels of management.
- Broad understanding of treasury products and strong knowledge of corporate documentation, legal terminology and legal structure of various companies.
- Ability to develop effective and positive client relationships, adapting to changing needs of our business partners and external customers.
- Understanding of regulatory and compliance requirements in EMEA.
- Excellent project management, organisational and process skillls, able to a handle full workload with tight deadlines and strong attention to detail.
- An independent leader who is a collaborative and proactive team player that is able to influence and is a solution driven strategic forward thinker with a 'can-do' attitude.
Benefits of working at Bank of America - UK
- Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
- Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
- 20 days of back-up childcare including virtual tutoring and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum
- The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc
- Use of a flex fund to use towards benefits
- Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services
- Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
- Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership programme and receive discounted entry to some of the UK and Ireland's most iconic cultural institutions
- Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local area
Bank of America
Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.
We are an equal opportunities employer, and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, gender identity, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, responsibilities for dependants, physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.
We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.