Job Description

Senior Lawyer

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) mission is to serve the public interest by setting high standards of corporate governance, reporting and audit and holding to account those responsible for delivering them. We are the UK competent authority for audit. We also set the UK Corporate Governance and Stewardship Codes as well as UK standards for accounting, auditing and actuarial work, and monitor and take action to promote the quality of corporate reporting and operate independent enforcement arrangements for accountants and actuaries. Further information about our role can be found at www.frc.org.uk.

Supporting the FRC’s Director of Legal Services in the delivery of legal services across the FRC including by

managing and overseeing a sub-team of the LST (of approximately 6-7 personnel, mostly lawyers),
ensuring the delivery by the sub-team of high quality, timely and business focussed legal advice to internal clients
through being an effective member of the LST, supporting in the delivery of its strategic and policy objectives
identifying, escalating and mitigating legal risk issues
working collaboratively to identify and implement ways to best deliver strategic and policy objectives
effectively managing internal and external stakeholder relationships
advising senior internal clients including committees and boards
reporting to the Director of Legal Service.

The Person:

Essential:

Significant and relevant post qualification experience as a solicitor or barrister qualified to practise in England & Wales.
Significant experience of managing a legal team and ensuring its delivery of high-quality legal advice.
Demonstrable experience in public law.
Demonstrable experience in regulatory, enforcement and/or information/privacy.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral)
Demonstrable experience of communicating with a range of internal and external stakeholders in a clear, concise and comprehensible manner.
Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to work well with others at all levels, within and across teams is essential.

Desirable:

Demonstrable experience in any one or more of the following practice areas: competition law, litigation, and/or corporate and commercial law
Experience of working on projects and legislative change programmes.
Advising as part of an in-house legal team.
Demonstrable experience of instructing and managing external counsel.

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Rewards and benefits

The FRC offers remuneration packages, including 30 days annual leave, ability to buy extra leave.
Generous employer pension contribution of 10%.
Staff Employee Assistance Programme including confidential counselling and work life services.
The FRC offers staff the opportunity to save at least 25% on the purchase of a new bike through the Cycle to work scheme.
The FRC has a strong work/life balance ethos.

The FRC believes that equality of opportunity and diversity is important in the work that we do and we are strongly committed to being an inclusive employer. Our values of being fair and independent supports this commitment. We're a signatory to the Government's Disability Confident scheme, which means that we guarantee an interview to any disabled candidates entering under the scheme, should they meet the minimum criteria for a role.

Equal opportunities monitoring is an important means of demonstrating and implementing our commitment to promoting equality of opportunity and diversity. Completing our diversity form will assist the FRC to identify any barriers that prevent access to employment and career development for certain groups of people, and to develop solutions, such as action plans, new policies and practices.

The role is based in our central Birmingham office. The post holder should be able to work flexibly to support the team’s activities and also provide cover within the FRC as necessary. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement with its workforce. The FRC operates a hybrid working arrangement, with a expectation that 40% of a person's working time will be located at one of our offices per week, with precise arrangements to be agreed between the employee and the line manager.

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