Payments Assistant General Counsel - Vice President

J.P. Morgan Payments is among the worlds largest, most trusted and innovative financial service providers in one of the most dynamic and rapidly transforming spaces in banking and finance. In addition to providing international export agency finance and trade & working capital solutions, we continue to invest in future-growth initiatives, such as digitization, blockchain, AI & ML.

As an Assistant General Counsel - Vice President in the legal department supporting the firm’s Payments business, you will provide legal support and advice to the Global Trade and Working Capital business (within the wider Payments business) in its sub-verticals of export agency finance, structured working capital, supply chain finance and core trade across all EMEA jurisdictions, in particular, working with leading Export Credit Agencies and multilateral agencies to provide export finance solutions to corporations and governmental institutions worldwide. 

Job responsibilities

• providing primary product-aligned legal support and advice to the businesses on a wide range of product-specific queries, transactions and non-transactional matters relating to export finance as well as other trade & working capital facilities and services, and Payments products; 
• reviewing, negotiating, drafting and finalising contracts with the Bank’s customers, partner banks and export agencies; 
• contributing to projects that improve operational processes to increase the efficiency and scalability of legal support;
• liaising and coordinating with local, regional and global legal counter-parts and functional partners on legal issues; and
• instructing and working with outside counsel.

Required qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Qualified lawyer from a common law jurisdiction or an EU member state with 5+ years of post-qualification legal experience;
• Strong drafting, negotiation and legal analytical skills;

Preferred qualifications, skills and capabilities

• Experience supporting export agency financings across different industries such as aviation, infrastructure and project finance deals and associated documentation; 
• Experience in trade finance (including letters of credit / demand guarantees) and receivables financing;
• Experience working with business and control functions stakeholders across geographies;