Senior Legal Counsel

JOB SUMMARY

• Provide transactional legal support for GCM Lending and Leveraged Acquisition Finance matters throughout the Group’s offices.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy

• Lead and take responsibility for providing legal advice, guidance and support to the Global Credit Markets business and associated stakeholders on all legal matters.
• Develop thought leadership capability as a member of the Global Credit Markets Legal team.

Business

• Ensure that regulatory reform/changes are appropriately assessed and managed from a Global Credit Markets Legal perspective.
• Maintain close relationships with appropriate stakeholders and provide them with legal advice, guidance and support.
• Provide GCM Lending related legal advice with respect to GCM Lending products.
• Provide transactional and documentation support to GCM Lending business in Asia having regard to Product Programme Authorisation (PPG)/Country Addenda (CA) parameters.
• Act as lead lawyer for complex multi-jurisdictional GCM transactions in Asia, collaborating with the relevant regional and/or country Head of Legal.
• Work with Product and other stakeholders to structure and define parameters for new products and initiatives and develop template legal documentation.

Processes

• Provide assurance to the Global Credit Markets legal team on the management of legal enforceability risk.

People & Talent

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s values and Code of Conduct.
• Promote high standards and continuing improvement across the team supporting Global Credit Markets.

Risk Management

• Have an appreciation for where the management of legal enforceability risk fits within the overall risk appetite of the Bank.
• Establish, maintain and manage effective global processes to ensure that policies, procedures and standards addressing legal risk are effectively implemented.

Governance

• Ensure that any papers being tabled by Legal at any relevant governance committees have been reviewed from a Global Credit Markets Legal perspective.

Regulatory & 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 across the Standard Chartered Group.
• Lead the Global Credit Markets team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.
• Effectively collaborate, identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Regional General Counsels
• Global Credit Markets Legal members
• The Head of Global Credit Markets and all other members of Global Credit Markets businesses.
• Appropriate colleagues in other functions such as CFCC, Audit, Operational Risk, Credit and Tax.
• External law firms.

Other Responsibilities

• Lead from a Global Credit Markets Legal perspective on any bank-wide projects requiring input.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 8+ years experience with a strong legal background.
• Qualified to practice as a solicitor/attorney or barrister/advocate.
• Experience in private practice or in-house of managing complex legal issues.
• Understanding of risk management techniques.
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence and resilience.
• Completion of Group Mandatory e-learnings.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Legal proficiency
• Transactional and Documentation support
• Risk Management

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.

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.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity.
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate.
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, and work collectively.

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.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity, sabbatical, and volunteering leave.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind and other resources.
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation.

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