Legal Counsel

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a commercially minded Legal Counsel to join a dynamic and fast-growing business in the financial services sector. This hybrid role is based in Manchester and offers the chance to work across a broad range of legal and regulatory matters within a collaborative and high-performing legal team. This role would suit a UK-qualified solicitor with strong commercial experience and a background in financial services, who thrives in a fast-paced, tech-enabled environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of commercial agreements (including supplier contracts, tech agreements, NDAs, and outsourcing arrangements)
• Advising internal stakeholders on legal and regulatory issues relating to financial products, partnerships, and business operations
• Supporting the development and launch of new products and services, ensuring regulatory compliance (e.g. FCA, PRA, consumer duty)
• Collaborating with risk, compliance, product, and commercial teams to provide pragmatic and commercially sound legal advice
• Supporting regulatory projects and change programmes, including those relating to consumer credit, savings, or digital finance
• Helping to maintain and update internal legal policies, playbooks, and templates
• Monitoring legal and regulatory developments in the financial services space and updating the business accordingly
• Contributing to legal team operations and mentoring more junior team members where required

Candidate Profile

• Qualified solicitor in England & Wales with 2–5 years’ PQE (or equivalent experience)
• Strong background in commercial law; financial services in-house or regulatory experience is essential
• Comfortable advising stakeholders at all levels in a fast-moving business
• Excellent communication skills, with a practical and solutions-driven mindset
• Able to manage competing priorities and work autonomously where needed
• Experience working in a regulated environment is highly desirable

What’s On Offer

• Salary up to £75,000, depending on experience
• Hybrid working model (2–3 days in the Manchester office per week)
• Competitive benefits package
• High-growth environment with genuine career progression opportunities
• Exposure to varied, high-quality work across the full legal spectrum in financial services

If you're looking to step into a broad in-house role where you can make a real impact in a fast-evolving sector, we’d love to hear from you. InterQuest Group is acting as an employment agency for this vacancy. InterQuest Group is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, religion/belief, race, marriage, civil partnership, pregnancy, maternity, sex or sexual orientation. Please make us aware if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.