Professional Support Lawyer - Banking & Finance

About the role:
Working in the UK Banking and Finance Team (BFT) and reporting to the partner/team leader to support and work alongside the existing PSL Principal Associate to deliver the following PSL services for the team:
Transactional support/fee earner queries: Provide support to partners & fee earners where requested on transactional matters;
Practice notes and knowhow: Produce/maintain practice notes and knowhow on core practice documents and legal developments and briefings for team meetings;
Risk: Actively mitigate risk within the practice area and wider firm (for example, through raising awareness within BFT or at a wider firm level on specific topics);
Internal training: Write and deliver core team training;
Business Development: Assist the team/firm with enhancing the profile of the team internally and with business development activities/external facing profile raising & client training;
Innovation: Help identify and Implement innovation solutions within BFT to materially reduce time spent by fee earners on fee earning/administrative work.
About you:
We are looking for someone who has:
excellent technical skills
an understanding of the development, sharing and use of knowledge
ability to apply strategic thinking
commercial awareness
good interpersonal skills and good people management ability
What We Can Offer You:
The opportunity to work for a firm which has been recognised as one of the top 10 best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 23 consecutive years.
Excellent benefits, including:
A hybrid approach to office and remote working, with up to 50% remote working available.
25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave
Private medical insurance, and the option to add family members
A generous pension allowance
Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
Maternity, paternity and adoption leave schemes
A range of health and wellbeing programmes
State of the art offices, in the heart of Birmingham City Centre, with an onsite restaurant
Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development
Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment.
The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity and paternity.
This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.
At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work.
Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.
If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Jess Swingler, #####
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