Senior Legal Professional in Financial Services
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About us
Grant Thornton Greece is a member firm of Grant Thornton International Limited (GTIL), one of the leading organizations delivering audit, tax and advisory services. Every day we provide a diverse range of organizations with the kind of business and financial advice it takes to do this. Our ideas and insight empower our clients to make big decisions about the future and unlock their growth.
If you want to be part of this incredible journey Grant Thornton Greece has the opportunity for you!
The key responsibilities of this role will include:
- Being part of a team that consults and performs specialized corporate governance and compliance reviews in high profile clients across all financial services sectors and relevant projects in Greece and abroad.
- Providing in depth analysis of regulation and legislation around company law, public entities and financial institutions operations
- Being agile to process and provide consultation in enhanced financial institutions regulation
- Interacting on a frequent basis with customers
- Delivering excellent client service
- Maintain highest standards of business ethics
- Providing guidance and consultation to junior staff.
We are looking for a legal professional with the ambition to work outside the traditional lawyer’s career path and develop as a top multinational firm professional legal consultant.
Our indicative basic requirements would be:
- A Bachelor’s Degree at Law, earned from a prominent University in Greece or European Union.
- A Master’s degree in Commercial/ Corporate/ or Banking & Finance will be considered as an asset.
- A broad understanding of banks’ regulatory issues and capital markets’ supervision.
- At least 2 years previous experience around Commercial law and Corporate law anthem main concepts of M&A transactions or Financial Services regulatory framework, as well as a well-structured understanding of their supportive documents.
- Previous years of experience in Banking Sector or in Financial Services would be considered an asset.
- Strong analytical, presentation and report writing skills.
- The ability to work in a team, tight deadlines and the flexibility in approach.
- The ability to work around new and enhanced regulatory frameworks
- The ability to communicate in English and to be an experienced user of MS Office
- Desire to work, acquire sponsored personal certifications and development in a multinational consulting firm
- Ability to resolve complex matters with clients
- Flexibility to work in different and challenging projects in the market
To be successful at this role you need the following:
- Genuine interest on continuous learning around Banking regulatory issues and Capital Markets ’s Law.
- Authentic will to work in a corporate environment.
- Classifying legal consulting needs and differentiate them from the litigation’s way of thinking.
- Effective communication and rapport building skills.
- Ability to develop and deliver high quality services and solutions.
- An extremely high work ethic.
What will we offer to you?
- Friendly and dynamic working environment, in which you can develop your skills and competencies
- Competitive remuneration and benefits package.
- A workplace with a strong focus on values and work-life balance and the joint aim to provide the best possible solutions for our clients.
- Formal training and counseling, including top of the market certifications in many areas and topics
- Being part of very experienced and high-profile market professionals’ team who have the commitment to train and counsel ambitious apprentices
- Your professional and personal success is our commitment.
What will you need to do next?
Joining the Grant Thornton Greece family is easy! If you feel that you meet the criteria, have the passion to succeed and have the Grant Thornton values simply apply online by uploading an -up-to-date CV with your application and leave the rest to us!
We will ensure that all our resourcing activities are fair, transparent and consistent across Greece. We want to ensure that the candidate experience is of the highest professional standard.
The Company is committed to providing equality of opportunity for all candidates.
- Department
- Financial Services
- Locations
- Athens
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Contract type
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
Colleagues
Athens
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