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More about your role
You will work closely with the Treasury, Tax and Legal leadership teams to provide specialist legal support across treasury and wider group finance activities. You will take a lead role on banking and financing arrangements, working with external lawyers, lenders and internal stakeholders to deliver complex transactions including loan agreements, bond programmes and refinancing activity.
You will manage key relationships with banks, trustees and legal partners, ensuring compliance with loan agreements and regulatory requirements. You'll also lead on securitisation and property-related legal work, including security releases, portfolio transactions and Land Registry processes. Alongside this, you will provide strategic legal advice on treasury initiatives, supporting high-value decisions and continuous improvement of legal processes.
Operating with a high degree of autonomy, you'll act as a trusted adviser across the business, supporting internal lending arrangements, maintaining security documentation and contributing to wider legal and treasury projects.
Essential criteria
- Qualified Solicitor with post-qualification experience
- Proven experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating loan agreements and banking documentation (including ISDA and CSA)
- Demonstrable experience advising on complex financial or treasury-related transactions and mitigating legal risk
- Experience working with banks, external legal advisors and multiple stakeholders on financing arrangements
- Strong experience managing legal documentation and compliance within lending or treasury environments
More about you
You are a proactive and experienced legal professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced and collaborative environment. You are confident operating independently, managing competing priorities and delivering high-quality outcomes to tight deadlines.
You build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and bring a commercial mindset to your legal advice. You are comfortable working across finance and legal teams, and you take pride in providing clear, practical guidance that supports business objectives while maintaining compliance and legal integrity.
Benefits
We are a large diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:
- Competitive salary with regular annual review
- Pension with matched contributions up to 7%
- Bonus scheme for colleagues at 2%
- 35 days holiday (including bank holiday) with option to buy or sell days
- Healthcare cashback plan for everyday medical costs - up to £500 savings per year
- Access to wellbeing support such as counselling and flu jabs
- Private GP and health support services available
- Access to a rewards platform with retail and lifestyle discounts
- Savings on groceries, travel, shopping and home products
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Access to professional qualifications and career progression
- Internal development programmes and learning support
- Recognition schemes such as Star Awards and Colleagues Awards
- Strong focus on inclusion, wellbeing and colleague engagement
- Free membership to Places Gyms
