Solicitor

It's an exciting time to join AXA UK's Legal team, with significant investment planned in all UKandI businesses to transform, deliver new digital services to our customers and streamline and automate our business processes. To help us build our Change capability, accelerate the delivery of our strategic programmes and drive the adoption of unified Agile ways of working and more effective change delivery across UKandI we're looking for an experienced Solicitor to join the growing team on a 6 month fixed term contract.

Reporting to our Senior Counsel for AXA Insurance, you'll play a key role in providing legal services, advice and assistance as required. You will ensure Group planning and processes are appropriately informed and that legal, financial and reputational risks are managed.

At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, such as part-time or condensed hours, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you'll be doing:

Provide legal services and advice, as required to all levels of business management within agreed service standards, liaising as necessary with external providers, to ensure that legal considerations are fully taken into account and risks appropriately managed.
Participate in the identification, analysis and resolution of any proposals by business management likely to give rise to contraventions of the law, in order to safeguard the legal, financial and reputational standing of the Group.
Direct and indirect responsibility for external legal spend up to agreed limits.
Provide seminars, reports and training to the Group as required, in respect of legal matters within the remit of the Legal department, to ensure that the relevant staff are provided with the level of understanding and competence required to perform their roles.
Monitor, analyse and report on current and potential developments in the law, and the Group's products and documentation, anticipating legal implications for the Group.
Briefing, educating, coaching and advising business colleagues, to ensure that risks are managed, and that effective systems and processes continue to be developed.
Monitor and implement Group risk policies.