Job Description

Petrofac is a leading international service provider to the energy industry, with a diverse client portfolio including many of the world's leading energy companies.

We design, build, manage and maintain infrastructure for our clients. We recruit, reward, and develop our people based on merit regardless of race, nationality, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, marital status or disability. We value our people and treat everyone who works for or with Petrofac fairly and without discrimination.





The world is re-thinking its energy supply and energy security needs, planning for a phased transition to alternative energy sources. We are here to help our clients meet these evolving energy needs.

This is an exciting time to join us on this journey.







We support flexible working requests and have adopted a hybrid approach for most of our office-based roles. We ask employees to be present in the office at least three days per week.

Are you ready to bring the right energy to Petrofac and help us deliver a better future for everyone?

JOB TITLE: LEGAL DIRECTOR.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Providing strategic legal support to the Group on all corporate matters and being the trusted legal business partner to the CFO and key finance teams and the Group Company Secretary. Financing arrangements: advising on the management of group financing arrangements - providing high quality input on financing solutions. Debt & equity capital markets: advising on the management of & compliance with existing issuances. Full legal business partnering support to the leadership of the Finance function: you will be a trusted adviser and business partner to the CFO, and leads of Group Treasury and FP&A and Business Unit Finance teams. Petrofac Limited is listed on the London main market and incorporated in Jersey. You will be advising on a wide variety of corporate matters, including intra-group security; listing rules compliance and governance issues. You will lead the legal thinking on dispute resolution and/or litigation on complex corporate litigation. Through a strong working relationship with the Group Company Secretary and IR Director you will provide legal support on shareholder management matters and interaction with the group's external corporate counsel, group auditors and the FCA and other regulators. You'll help our business grow by providing integrated input to cross-functional teams looking at new corporate opportunities: from overseeing due diligence, to transactional structures and execution. As an experienced legal adviser, you will: Proactively assess legal risks to business and work with management to devise and implement systems and commercial solutions to manage risks and achieve commercial objectives. Provide strategic guidance and support on global legal work and ad hoc projects as required. Make intelligent use of the external resources available and instruct and liaise with external counsel on non- routine legal issues. Support consistency of corporate behaviors relevant to group standards published from time to time (e.g. anti-bribery and corruption, diligence, and governance). Assist in development, improvement, implementation and delivery of policies and procedures, education, training and guidance including review, maintenance and updating of precedents. Optimize external legal spending by negotiating best rates, capping fee regimes and monitoring and recording external legal performance and spend. Proactively manage internal billing approvals with relevant stakeholders. Support audit information requests and liaise with the Groups auditors. You have significant experience in providing commercial and pragmatic advice on complex and critical legal problems. You exercise sound legal and commercial judgement to identify material legal risks and opportunities. Our Legal Director (Corporate) will be highly commercial, resilient, pragmatic and hands-on. You will have significant experience of relying on your intuition and sound judgement and will know how to identify and prioritize the critical issues that matter.

ESSENTIAL QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

It's essential you are a qualified lawyer (solicitor/barrister) with a UK or equivalent common law practicing admission (although demonstrable experience will be considered irrespective of length of qualification). Have a minimum of years PQE, some of which has been in a similar in-house environment. Have significant experience of advising on complex financial arrangements and in leading legal workstreams on significant fundraising and corporate transactions. Understand governance processes and requirements for UK entities incorporation, capital structure management, reporting and funding. Have supported finance functions with the delivery of complex annual reporting requirements, tax matters and treasury transactions. * Have managed corporate/commercial disputes - including through litigious phases.