Banking Investigations Lawyer

We are currently seeking a Lawyer with experience managing consumer complaints to work with a leading multinational financial institution on their complaints and compliance team. Candidates with a strong interest in serving as a team lead and excellent investigation and dispute resolution skills are encouraged to apply.
This opportunity enables you to leverage your experience and expertise to counsel and collaborate with some of the most innovative and dynamic minds in the industry while developing a diverse set of skills with the opportunity to grow your team leadership skills.
Responsibilities:
Support a large banking institution’s consumer compliance and complaints department reviewing, investigating, and resolving complaints related to consumer-focused banking products and services.
Serve as team lead: conducting quality control reviews, training, providing updates to leadership, delegating cases and acting as escalation point for questions and issues.
Analyze complaints as they are assigned and conduct a thorough investigation of merits. Draft summary and recommendation letters and provide any additional insight or facts as needed to reach resolution.
Support internal team members and leaders with identifying patterns and complaint trends and reporting findings to leadership.
Qualifications:
3-7 years of experience as a practicing lawyer, ideally with wealth management or financial services regulatory experience.
Experience conducting investigations coupled with knowledge of wealth management / consumer banking services, although training will be provided.
Experience managing junior attorneys, paralegal, or legal staff and confidence in reporting to senior leadership.
Excellent oral and written communication skills and ability to efficiently analyze a high volume of materials while following internal policies and procedures.
Compensation, Benefits & Location:
This role offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package in the alternative legal services marketplace, that includes health benefits, pension and more. Axiomites also get access to professional development resources and learning and development programs. Axiomites predominately work remotely, with the exception that some clients require on-site presence.
Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre, on-demand legal talent. Covering North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC, we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of today’s business landscape with best in breed alterative legal services.
Axiom is a leader in diversity, inclusion, and social engagement. Diversity is core to our values and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ+ Equality, earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year. Axiom’s legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.
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