Legal/Compliance Officer recruitment
Main Responsibilities:
- Manage contracts with clients, consultants, agents and sub-contractors.
- Manage legal issues including sanctions conformance.
- Manage insurance issues for liabilities, travel, and professional indemnity.
- Provide commercial guidance and support across the business streams.
- Develop and improve existing commercial policies and processes.
- Liaise with finance group on country tax issues.
- Liaise with commercial teams in overseas offices.
- Providing timely independent advice on all aspects of regulatory compliance including market abuse, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, FSMA RAO compliance and FSA regulatory obligations.
- Working with Front Office colleagues to implement systems of work and processes to ensure effective compliance with regulatory obligations.
- Acting as focal point for overseas subsidiaries.
- Leading compliance-based training, ensuring highest quality across GMT and its subsidiaries.
- Developing and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Main Requirements and Preferences:
- Fluent in English both written and spoken with minimum 5 years direct experience in the oil and gas legal industry.
- Fully qualified lawyer in the UK with UK based legal experience.
- Must have a degree.
- Sound knowledge of the wider international oil market.
- Knowledge of FSMA, MAD, the UK Bribery Act and AML legislation.
- A strong understanding of European regulatory developments e.g. in relation to: MFID, CRD, MAD, REMIT and EMIR
- Experience drafting and approving legal documents e.g. commission-related employment contracts, LCs, Due Diligence etc.
- Flexibility to travel, adapt to a fast paced working environment and liaising with different departments; specifically finance.