Senior Associate - Financial Services

Job Description
Senior Associate - Financial Services

Our client, a top-tier professional services firm in Belfast, is looking to hire an experienced Senior Associate. This is a unique opportunity for a skilled professional to become part of a dynamic team and further their career in a collaborative, growth-focused environment. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating financial contracts within in-house legal departments, law firms, or corporate environments. Offering a hybrid working model, along with a competitive salary and benefits package, this role provides both flexibility and excellent rewards for the right candidate.

What you'll be doing:

• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a range of financial contracts
• Following a predefined approach to negotiations
• Managing escalations of complex cases, ensuring the right SME insight is obtained and cases are brought to a resolution
• Checking legal documentation for quality, consistency and content
• Client outreach activities across a number of different regulations and document types.
• Supporting customer service activities and supporting junior members of the team handling complex or difficult client situations
• Case and documentation review - analysing legal and other documents to identify key facts, anomalies, etc, for categorisation
• Managing your own workload, including reporting on progress and issues.
• Developing the ability to be agile and support a range of client/projects
• Identifying opportunities for efficiencies and taking action to implement them

Who you are:

• Have interest in the financial markets
• Experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating financial contracts within in-house legal departments/law firm or corporate environments
• Proven analytical and sceptical mindset with an ability to develop solutions to technical problems
• Excellent written and verbal negotiation skills
• Experience in reporting on complex cases to include progress and issues

What's in it for you:

• Flexible hybrid working policy to support work-life balance
• Competitive salary aligned with experience
• Comprehensive benefits package, including health coverage, pension plan, and bonus schemes
• Opportunity for career advancement within a leading firm recognised for its supportive culture and commitment to professional development.

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Samuel Neilly, Legal Recruitment Specialist at MCS Group on 02896 935502 .

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