Senior Legal Counsel Commercial -UK

Role Description

You will provide high‑quality, commercially-aligned legal support to FNZ’s UK business, with a focus on enabling customer-focused, scalable, compliant, and innovative solutions across FNZ’s platform, technology, and outsourced service offerings. This role acts as a senior legal advisor supporting strategic client relationships and complex commercial arrangements within the UK wealth management ecosystem.

Specific Role Responsibilities

What you will be doing –

• Leading the negotiation, drafting, and management of complex commercial agreements with FNZ’s key clients, including large financial institutions, asset managers, platforms, and distribution partners.

• Supporting end‑to‑end contracting for FNZ’s technology, SaaS, data, and outsourced services, ensuring alignment with FNZ’s global operating model, risk frameworks, and regulatory obligations.

• Partnering with senior stakeholders across Commercial, Finance, Compliance, Risk, Delivery and Technology teams to support the design and launch of new products, digital solutions, and service offerings.

• Advising on large‑scale transformation programmes, client migrations, and long‑term strategic commercial partnerships.

• Supporting governance activities, including internal policy development, contract standards, legal risk management, and escalation processes across the UK business.

• Managing external counsel effectively, ensuring value and alignment with FNZ’s business priorities.

• Contributing to the legal team’s continuous improvement agenda, including template development, contracting efficiencies, playbooks, and legal operations initiatives.

Experience required 

What you will need: -

• 8+ years of PQE experience

• Background in complex technology, outsourcing, financial services, or regulated business environments, ideally with both private practice and in‑house experience.

• Understanding of key UK regulatory frameworks impacting FNZ’s operations, including FCA rules on outsourcing, operational resilience, governance, consumer duty, and data protection.

• Demonstrated ability to support major commercial negotiations with large institutions and drive balanced, pragmatic outcomes.

• Skilled at simplifying complex legal and contractual positions into clear, business‑friendly advice.

• Experience working with cross‑functional teams in fast‑moving, high‑scale environments.

• Strong judgement, senior stakeholder management, and the ability to navigate ambiguity with confidence.

About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with the world’s leading financial institutions, with over US$2.4 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).

Together with our clients, we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.