Managing Legal Counsel - FTSE Russell & Risk Intelligence at LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group)

Position Summary

• We are seeking a Managing Legal Counsel to provide strategic legal support to the FTSE Russell and Risk Intelligence divisions. This Cape Town‑based role sits within plays a critical role in enabling product innovation, managing legal and regulatory risk, and supporting commercial execution across global markets, focusing on the FTSE Russell business. The role is for an experienced legal counsel who operates as a trusted partner for business leaders, manages complex matters end‑to‑end, and acts as a leader within the team. The role requires a wide range of legal skills and capabilities, partnering with the Risk Intelligence and the broader Legal & Compliance team.
• The role reports to the Legal Director, FTSE Russell.

Role Responsibilities

• Deliver on risk management and commercial objectives for FTSE Russell, ensuring alignment with Group strategy and regulatory requirements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and other functional stakeholders, proactively identifying legal and regulatory risks and enabling strategic business decisions.
• Negotiate and manage complex, high-value agreements (including data, software, IP, outsourcing, and M&A), ensuring robust risk assessment and mitigation.
• Drive the implementation of legal aspects of new product development, regulatory change, market expansion, and strategic initiatives, including AI.
• Undertake people leader responsibilities meeting LSEG’s people leader expectations, role modelling the legal team culture of high performance, inclusion, and continuous development.
• Collaborate closely with privacy, litigation, compliance, GRRS and risk teams on disputes, advocacy, regulatory matters, and cross-functional projects.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with external counsel and legal service providers, ensuring efficiency, value and alignment with business objectives.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of relevant laws and regulations, and ensure the implementation of effective internal controls, policies, and procedures.
• Represent Legal at FTSE Russell governance forums and committees, providing tailored input on risk, compliance, and business transformation.
• Contribute and drive special projects, including group/division/function-wide initiatives, template and playbook development, MLS, regulatory change, and operational improvements in collaboration with the FTSE and Risk Intelligence and broader L&C teams.

Qualifications and Experience Required

• Qualified lawyer with substantial post-qualification experience in commercial, regulatory, and financial services law.
• Demonstrated experience as a senior legal counsel, including managing complex initiatives.
• Detailed understanding of LSEG and the financial markets infrastructure and data industry, with exposure to FTSE Russell, financial indices and benchmarks regulation an advantage.
• Proven ability to influence and partner with senior stakeholders as a trusted advisor across functions and geographies.
• An enterprise, commercial and solution-oriented mindset, with outstanding commitment to internal and external customer service.
• Strong strategic, organizational, operational, analytical, and decision-making skills, with the ability to simplify complex issues and drive pragmatic solutions balancing legal considerations.
• Shows ability to come up with new ideas and novel approaches to problems.
• Strong ability to work both collaboratively and independently with excellent judgement, including when to escalate matters to senior members of the Legal and Compliance team and business.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills and capability to build trusted working relationships with key stakeholders across different functions, positively influencing behaviors, and successfully balancing legal issues against pragmatic commercial solutions.
• Fluent in English (written and oral).

Deadline:8th April,2026