Legal Counsel - Contractual Services

Job ID:  28111 
  

We are looking for a talented Legal Counsel to join Nordea Group Legal team and contribute to our agenda, focusing especially on contractual services, including drafting and negotiation of agreements for financial products and services. This is an opportunity for you to bring your expertise to the table and work in an international and dynamic environment.

 
At Nordea, we are committed to be a partner our customers and society can count on. Compliance and integrity go hand in hand. Joining us means you will have an impact on how we do business - today and tomorrow. So bring your ideas, skills and unique background. With us, you will be in good company with plenty of opportunities to collaborate, grow and make your mark on something bigger.

Will you help us lead the way in sustainable and ethical banking?

About our team   
  

You will join Group Legal Poland where we provide legal support in strategically important areas. We support Nordea Branch Poland, but also the overall operations of Nordea bank. The areas of our assistance include corporate governance, employment, commercial contracts, data privacy, and financial crime prevention. Currently we are expanding our legal services to support the stakeholders within Nordea Group with regard to various types of agreements related to banking products and services.

What you’ll be doing  
  

As a Legal Counsel, you will be providing legal services in close cooperation with other lawyers across Nordea, in a challenging and evolving regulatory and business environment.

What you’ll be doing:

• drafting, reviewing and negotiating agreements and documents relating to various types of the bank’s products and services;
• acting as a trusted partner and adviser to the stakeholders throughout the organisation;
• participating in cross-unit and cross-country projects as a legal representative;
• assessing and interpreting the upcoming legal regulations;
• providing legal trainings to our stakeholders and colleagues.

Welcome to our team! We are a group of highly skilled and passionate subject matter experts with great cross-country collaboration and unique competence base.

The role is based in Gdańsk/Gdynia or Warsaw.

Who you are  
 

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.    

To succeed in this role, we believe that you:

• are a strong legal professional with in-depth expertise in the relevant legal areas;
• feel comfortable while working in the international environment;
• have high integrity and take responsibility in your work;
• show strong people skills and ability to manage stakeholders in different countries and at all levels;
• have a proactive and solution-oriented approach and make clear decisions;
• have excellent communication skills;
• have a true team spirit but also drive tasks independently;
• have an open mind and positive service-oriented attitude;
• work in a systematic, methodical and orderly way to deliver results;
• adapt and respond to change and work consistently also under pressure.

Your profile and background:

• Master’s degree in law;
• A few years of relevant work experience in drafting and negotiating contracts (preferably relating to the financial products and services) in English language working environment;
• Previous work experience in an international law firm, in-house legal department of a bank/credit institution or international company from the financial industry;
• Experience in providing cross-country legal support would be an asset;
• Motivation to expand knowledge on complex financial products, new areas of law, including foreign legal systems;
• Fluency in English and Polish, both verbally and in writing. 

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

What we offer  
  

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.  

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.  

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.  

If this sounds like you, get in touch!  

Next steps  
  

Submit your application no later than 23/02/2025.   

  
The recruitment process consists of the following steps:  

1. Preliminary CV selection  

2. Phone conversation with the recruiter  

3. Online interview(s) 

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.  

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.  

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.   

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.   

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.   

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