Senior Legal Counsel in Business Banking Legal

Job ID: 3006

Are you an experienced lawyer who wants your expertise to drive real impact for customers, colleagues and society? We’re looking for a dedicated and highly skilled Senior Legal Counsel to join Business Banking Legal in Sweden.

In this role, you’ll step into an environment where your ideas matter, your judgment is trusted, and your drive to contribute is genuinely valued. If you want to shape smarter, more customer‑focused banking while helping to protect the bank from unnecessary credit risk, this is your place to grow and make a meaningful difference alongside colleagues who bring ambition, clarity and generosity to their craft.

At Nordea, we’re committed to being a partner for our customers and society to count on. Integrity and compliance are at the heart of how we operate. Joining us means you’ll have an impact on how we do banking – today and tomorrow. So bring your ideas, skills and unique background. With us, you’ll be in good company with plenty of opportunities to collaborate, grow and make your mark on something bigger.

About our team

You will be part of Group Legal, a strong Nordic legal community of around 300 professionals, including about 60 based in Stockholm. In Business Banking Legal Sweden, you will join a team of sharp and collaborative lawyers who combine deep expertise with a pragmatic and proactive approach to enabling the business. We work closely with stakeholders to provide high-quality, risk-based and commercially focused legal support. Our work covers a broad range of products and services for corporate customers of all sizes. The team is located in Stockholm.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll work across a wide range of matters — from new lending structures and distressed debt to disputes and product development — and provide clear, actionable legal guidance that enables the business move forward.

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver high‑quality, risk‑based and practical legal advice across the Business Banking offering, with a strong focus on property law (sakrätt), insolvency law (obeståndsrätt), and company law
• Draft, review and negotiate both bespoke and standardised legal documentation
• Provide legal training to business stakeholders
• Contribute to legal risk management and embed sound legal solutions in product & process development
• Participate in cross-functional development initiatives and collaborate proactively with internal and external stakeholders

Who you are 

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in being at our best – and that we imagine you share with us.

You are a strong team player who also delivers high-quality work independently. You are curious, engaged and motivated by developing yourself while contributing to the growth of others. You balance sound legal judgment with commercial awareness and have a proven ability to turn complex issues into clear and practical guidance.

To succeed in this role, you have:

• A Swedish Master of Laws degree
• At least six years of relevant experience from a law firm, financial institution or public authority
• Deep knowledge of collateral, insolvency and restructuring, and a strong interest in broadening your expertise across additional legal areas relevant to Business Banking
• Strong stakeholders management skills and the ability to communicate clearly and confidently
• Excellent written and spoken English and Swedish
• High integrity, a willingness to speak up and a strong sense of ownership

What we offer 

At Nordea, you will join a culture that fosters growth, performance, and continuous learning. You will collaborate with talented colleagues from diverse backgrounds in a vibrant and supportive environment. We offer a hybrid working model, strong focus on diversity and inclusion, and opportunities to develop your expertise while contributing to something larger — a safer and more sustainable financial ecosystem.

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. Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they tick all the qualification boxes. If this is part of why you hesitate to apply, we would like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

​Submit your application no later than 23/03/2026. For more information, you’re welcome to contact Annika Lindquist at Annika.Lindquist@nordea.com.

For union information, please contact Finansförbundet at finansforbundet@nordea.se or SACO at SacoNordea@nordea.com.