JPMorgan Payments Assistant General Counsel - Vice President 

United Kingdom, England, London 

488156593

Job responsibilities

• providing primary product-aligned legal support and advice to the businesses on a wide range of product-specific queries, transactions and non-transactional matters relating to export finance as well as other trade & working capital facilities and services, and Payments products;
• reviewing, negotiating, drafting and finalising contracts with the Bank’s customers, partner banks and export agencies;
• contributing to projects that improve operational processes to increase the efficiency and scalability of legal support;
• liaising and coordinating with local, regional and global legal counter-parts and functional partners on legal issues; and
• instructing and working with outside counsel.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Qualified lawyer from a common law jurisdiction or an EU member state with 5+ years of post-qualification legal experience;
• Strong drafting, negotiation and legal analytical skills;

Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Experience supporting export agency financings across different industries such as aviation, infrastructure and project finance deals and associated documentation;
• Experience in trade finance (including letters of credit / demand guarantees) and receivables financing;
• Experience working with business and control functions stakeholders across geographies;