Join us as a Legal Relationship Team Analyst, where you will act as a key liaison between onboarding teams and internal stakeholders to support new client onboardings and existing client relationships. In this role, you will facilitate high-volume transactional documentation processes, ensuring documentation is accurate, compliant, and completed efficiently. You will partner with stakeholders across Markets, Sales, Trading, Credit Risk, Compliance, and Operations to support the execution of onboarding and trading documentation activities. You will also help identify process improvements and support initiatives to ensure documentation aligns with regulatory requirements and internal policies.
To be successful as a Legal Relationship Team Analyst, you should have:
Higher education or equivalent professional experience in finance, legal operations, financial services, or a related discipline
Ability to manage high-volume documentation and onboarding workflows with strong attention to detail
Experience working with financial systems or the ability to quickly learn and interpret new platforms
Other highly valued skills include:
Strong analytical, organizational, and time management skills in a fast-paced environment
Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple internal stakeholders
Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
This role is located in New York or the Whippany, NJ offices.
Salary for New York:
Minimum Salary $85,000
Maximum Salary $100,000
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
Salary for Whippany, NJ:
Minimum Salary $85,000
Maximum Salary $100,000
The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.
Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.
This position is eligible for an incentive award.
Purpose of the role
To oversee and manage transactional processes, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and maintaining accurate documentation for financial transactions.
Accountabilities
- To ensure that the Transaction Services and Documentation activities are conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and to help the bank manage legal and reputational risks associated with these activities.
- Coordination with internal and external stakeholders, including legal counsel, credit risk management, and other departments, to ensure that transactions are executed in a timely and efficient manner.
- Creation, review, negotiation and management of legal documents such as loan agreements, security documents, and other transactional documents, to ensure execution in a timely and efficient manner.
- Transaction support, including preparation of transaction summaries, conducting due diligence, and support to other departments as needed.
- Development and implementation of transaction processes and procedures to ensure that transactions are executed consistently.
- Pro-active identification, communication, and provision of legal advice on applicable laws, rules and regulations (LRRs). Keeping up to date with regards to changes to LRRs in the relevant coverage area. Ensuring that LRRs are effectively allocated to, and adequately reflected within, the relevant policies, standards and controls.
Analyst Expectations
- To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
- Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise
- Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise
- They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
- OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
- Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
- Partner with other functions and business areas.
- Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
- Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
- Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
- Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
- Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with function, alongside knowledge of the organisations products, services and processes within the function.
- Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
- Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
- Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and will be guided by precedents.
- Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
- Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
