[Hiring] Legal Counsel, Privacy @RBS

Role Description

This is an opportunity for a lawyer looking to build upon their post-qualification experience (PQE) and to take on an exciting role within the NatWest Legal Policy and Oversight team. This role offers the advantage of a varied and extensive breadth of work, where you’ll find solutions to varied challenges on a wide range of matters.

What you'll do:

• Managing and coordinating the delivery of legal advice and support across multiple business areas.
• Ensuring that advice is accurate, readily understandable to non-lawyers, delivered at the right time, and remains commercial while minimising legal risks.
• Delivering expert, accurate and cost-effective legal and operational advice on privacy and client confidentiality, either directly or through others.
• Ensuring advice is timely, commercial, proactive, easy for non-lawyers to understand, and helps manage and minimise legal risk.
• Driving continuous improvement in operating practices and processes, including identifying efficiencies, improvements and cost-reduction opportunities.
• Communicating internal and external legal advice, and providing legal input on transactions and projects, in a commercial, user-friendly and efficient way.
• Carrying out horizon scanning activities.
• Owning and developing appropriate risk and control frameworks for the franchises and functions to meet their responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor or barrister with experience of providing legal privacy advice.
• Experience of working with law firms and other professional advisers.
• Knowledge of current legal privacy issues facing banks.
• In-depth knowledge of privacy and client confidentiality law.
• Ability to build rapport and establish strong relationships, especially with senior colleagues.
• Good commercial awareness, excellent communication, legal research and analytical skills.
• A data protection qualification such as International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
• Ability to use AI tools to aid legal research and analysis.
• Strong PQE within the banking industry.

Requirements

• 35 hours per week.
• Remote First working arrangement.

Job Posting Closing Date

12/04/2026