Senior Legal Counsel – Regulatory

Titan Wealth is a fast-growing wealth management business, both in the UK and internationally. It has evolved a fairer, more efficient and effective business model, structured to deliver leading advice-led wealth management services, giving financial advisers and their clients the best opportunity to fulfil their dreams and ambitions.

We provide a dynamic work environment full of opportunity, one where both individual and team initiative and contribution is encouraged, so that together we can deliver better outcomes for our clients over the long term.

The Titan Wealth Legal team are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, proactive and resilient candidate who thrives on the pressures of delivering consistently high-quality advice to a dynamic and constantly evolving business, for a challenging and rewarding Wealth Management legal role focusing on regulatory advisory (UK and international) work to join their legal team on a permanent basis.

The role requires the ability to manage a diverse workload of matters ranging from keeping abreast of regulatory developments impacting the Titan Wealth businesses, advising on regulatory implementations to assessing regulatory implications of new business initiatives and specific client situations.

Responsibilities

• Advise on and interpret regulations issued by financial regulatory bodies, including the FCA and other relevant regulators, in conjunction with Titan Wealth compliance colleagues and external legal counsel where required (typically ex-UK)
• Act as the primary legal point of contact for all regulatory legal queries and enquiries
• Act as the primary legal point of contact for developments and implementation of regulatory compliance programmes and projects
• Draft, review and negotiate agreements, contracts and other legal documents in line with current regulatory requirements, utilising external legal counsel when required
• Ensure the timely and effective communication of legal risks associated with regulatory developments to the relevant business areas
• Oversee the appointment and management of external legal counsel on regulatory legal matters ensuring that the advice and support provided is in line with budgetary requirements whilst ensuring that the advice and support provided is commercial, risk based and of high quality
• Oversee / monitor more junior members of the team (as appropriate) and be willing to take online management responsibilities
• Assist with enabling product launches, supporting new permissions, managing regulatory risk in integration and improving processes/template
• Working closely with the legal, compliance and vendor team

Critical Skills And Experience Required

• Legal qualification: 6 + yrs PQE with broad regulatory legal experience working within a regulated financial services organization and/or law firm
• In-house experience is desirable but not compulsory
• A well rounded, broadly based and highly regarded regulatory legal specialist with first rate academic credentials, demonstrable intellectual abilities and an excellent career track record to date
• An in-depth understanding of the financial services industry and demonstrable wide-ranging regulatory legal expertise
• A business oriented lawyer with the breadth of experience covering a broad range of legal and regulatory issues across the entire Group, individual business areas and central functions
• Ability to think strategically and creatively see legal issues in their wider context and advise accordingly
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong organisational skills and judgement, excellent analysis, drafting and negotiation skills
• Self-motivated to drive delivery against objectives and an ability to work autonomously and manage own caseload effectively
• Willingness to learn and build good working relationships with internal stakeholders, identifying areas of improvement in relation to contractual documentation, policies, procedures and standards, working closely with Compliance colleagues
• Accustomed to operating in a high-paced environment and with a successful track record of aligning legal priorities and business goals
• An ability to provide commercial, risk based and incisive legal advice, guidance and support with sound legal judgement
• Experience in vendor / platform onboarding (SaaS, custody, data providers), outsourcing and operational resilience, data protection / cross‑border structuring

Our employees are talented people, distinguished by excellence. You will be able to demonstrate a willingness to embrace the Company values of:

Creativity – we recognise we need new ways of thinking, learning and doing to both improve our own productivity and efficiency as well as to help us stay ahead of competitors.

Commitment – we are team with the willingness to put time, effort and energy into driving change in the organisation, going the extra mile.

Collaboration – we need teamwork amongst ourselves and with partners to generate more innovative, efficient and effective solutions and thereby a greater sense of achievement.

Terms

• Competitive salary
• Attractive Employee Pension Scheme (7.5% employer & minimum 3% employee)
• 25 days Annual Leave + public holidays
• Buy and sell holidays up to 5 days
• Office Christmas close (3-days)
• A range of benefits which includes private medical insurance, Group life insurance, and income protection insurance
• Hybrid working
• Further education and training support
• Discretionary performance related bonus
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme
• 2 days per year for voluntary work
• And lots of flexible benefits to choose from!

The Titan Wealth Group is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for everyone who works with us, regardless of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or disability, or political affiliation. We believe that having a diverse team allows us to create the best possible outcomes for our clients and team members. We strive to provide equal opportunities in all aspects of the workplace with respect to recruitment and career advancement, pay and benefits, training and development opportunities and other job-related activities.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

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