Commercial Lawyer

Company: Arbuthnot Yon
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Location: London
Job Description:

Job Description

Our client is an established UK-based Fintech who, with a growing customer base of over 1 million users, is achieving its aim of making financial management accessible to anyone. Since inception, this business has developed a number of innovative products and can function as an all-in-one platform for savings, investments and pensions.

We are now seeking a senior commercial lawyer, for a 12-month fixed-term contract maternity cover role.

The incumbent acts as the Head of Legal for the Commercial Team, managing a small team of 3 professionals and reporting to the Legal Director. The successful candidate will work from the Central London Headquarters and home (hybrid) and will perform a broad role encompassing:

  • Acting as legal lead of the Commercial Legal Team: supervising and allocating work to more junior members and executing the business’ legal strategy in broader terms;
  • Leading legal tech implementation, which may include the use of AI contract review tools with the aim of increasing the efficacy of the CLM function;
  • Drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts, such as those with banking partners, outsourcers as well as customer-facing terms;
  • Collaborate internally on the development of new products as well as promotions of the current product range;
  • Advising the Compliance Team on regulatory queries as and when required.

We are looking for candidates with a track record of handling escalation points on BAU commercial legal work, as well as driving legal tech/efficiency projects within the financial services arena (ideally from another fintech/early growth company).

Our client will offer a competitive base salary, attractive benefits package, discretionary bonus and a flexible, hybrid home/office working policy

If the above is of interest, please apply directly through LinkedIn with your CV.

Should you have any queries, please contact:

Matt Bloxham: matt@aysearch.com 07900 692209

OR

Celene Yon: celene@aysearch.com

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Posted: April 21st, 2025