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Junior Legal Counsel - MiFID 2

Employer
NonStop Consulting
Location
Zürich
Salary
Negotiable
Closing date
Mar 15, 2019

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Sector
Business and Finance
Contract Type
Employee
Hours
Full Time
Organization Type
Corporate

Job Details

A well known international Bank is looking for a Junior Legal Counsel who can join them as soon as possible. They are growing fast recently and reinforcing their teams in Zurich, so it's a chance for you to join a growing company and work on progressing in your career as a Legal Counsel.

  • Responsibilities

You will be required to advise and provide pro-active support to the Relationship Managers and the other departments of the bank. You will advise and manage all aspects of client complaints and contentious issues, in particular assess merits of claims brought by or against the bank. You will lead and support contractual negotiations with clients and business partners.
Furthermore, you will facilitate and support projects of the bank along with training the employees on special legal topics. The job holder will monitor and prepare for legal and regulatory developments and their impacts on the business. Finally, you will be asked to propose, facilitate and implement risk mitigation measures in close coordination with other risk functions

  • Qualifications

To be deemed suitable for this role, you must have experience as inhouse lawyer, legal clerk in a Swiss court or associate in a law firm, preferably with a focus on financial, banking and corporate law. You must show a strong interest for financial and banking legal topics, in particular MIFID II, FIDLEG, CISA, GDPR, Data Protection, QI, FATCA, etc. You are dynamic, pro-active, capable of working independently and as a team player, but you also are a good communicator, capable of coping with pressure and multiple tasks, with a natural capacity for persuading. You are fluent in German and English (other languages, in particular Italian, is an advantage) and have a good knowledge of MS Office applications. Requires a Swiss university law degree, admittance to the Bar in Switzerland is an advantage.

NonStop Finance is a niche Banking & Financial Services consultancy focused on the recruitment of mid to senior level risk, compliance, financial crime, transformation and accounting professionals in the financial centres of Europe.

Swiss-headquartered with fully licenced and staffed offices across Europe, we are renowned for professionalism, unrivaled industry knowledge and extensive candidate networks.

The service our multinational, multilingual teams provide is underpinned by an in-house Quality Assurance team, something unique in our industry.

Company

Our Consultants are trained to deliver an exceptional standard of recruitment services to clients across the life sciences, chemical, care, educations, technical, digital and finance industries. 

Our clients – and bottom line profits - tell us that we do a great many things very well. Complacency, however, is the last word you would associate with us. We work incredibly hard to deliver better and better results, based on stronger and stronger service delivery.  Which is why we believe the best is yet to come – for us, our clients and for the people who have what it takes to join us on the journey.

The result? We’re expanding (in the UK and across Europe and even to Boston, US) and continue to post impressive performances in all our niche sectors. 

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