Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate and Investment Banking, AME

Key Responsibilities

Acting as legal product specialist for, and providing legal support to, the Bank's Global Banking and Corporate and Investment Banking businesses in Africa and the Middle East (including Islamic Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory, Project and Export Finance, Leveraged Acquisition Finance, Financing Solutions and Commercial Real Estate).

Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

People and Talent

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.
• Set appropriate tone and expectations for the team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

Risk Management
The ability to identify, manage and mitigate risks in connection with transactional matters.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Global Banking; Corporate and Investment Banking, Africa and Middle East.

Skills And Experience
Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Providing legal advice on a transactional basis to the Bank's Global Banking, Islamic finance and Corporate and Investment Banking businesses in Africa and the Middle East.
• Negotiating, drafting and managing documentation as requested and/or as required to support the Bank's Global Banking and Corporate and Investment Banking businesses in Africa and the Middle East.
• Ensuring that appropriate forms of legal documents are used for dealings with third parties which contain adequate protections and remedies to address legal, regulatory, credit and event risk.
• Ensuring that transactions with third parties are valid and enforceable under the laws of the relevant jurisdictions.
• Advising in the structuring of customised finance transactions.
• Providing legal advice on Bank policies, procedures and corporate governance.
• Advising in relation to bespoke projects.

Qualifications

• EDUCATION - A law degree.
• LICENSES - Licensed to practice law in an applicable jurisdiction.
• CERTIFICATIONS - Law.
• LANGUAGES - English and Arabic (preferred).
• Training: Law firm or in-house (5 years minimum).

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do.
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well.
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term.

What We Offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits.
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.