Legal Counsel, WRB

Job Summary

A global legal role as part of a team delivering commercially focused, risk-adjusted and sophisticated legal advice to the group Wealth and Retail Banking business; including, the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises business, and working closely with group and local legal and business teams worldwide.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the execution of legal support for the Wealth and Retail Banking (“WRB”) business, including, in particular, the Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (“SME”) business, with accountability to the Head, Legal, SME Banking, Banking Products and Digital Banking.
• Deliver commercially focused, risk-adjusted and sophisticated legal advice to the WRB business of Standard Chartered; including, in particular, the group SME business (including other functional stakeholders at a group and local level).
• Deliver legal advice relating to financial services products such as: deposit accounts; payments; trade finance; lending; and foreign exchange, either directly to clients of Standard Chartered or through partnerships with third parties.
• Closely work (where relevant) with other Standard Chartered and external legal teams to ensure that the legal advice delivered is appropriate, which may include collaboration with (for example) specialist product or commercial and technology contract advisory teams.
• Closely guide and support local legal teams in Standard Chartered’s markets to ensure the delivery of consistent advice worldwide.
• Support the development and maintenance of global template legal documents for WRB.

Key stakeholders

•    Group WRB businesses, including, in particular, the group SME business.
•    Group WRB Legal.
•    Wider stakeholders in Legal, including specialist technology, commercial, disputes and IP legal teams; and local legal teams supporting the business worldwide.
•    Wider functional stakeholders, such as operations, risk and compliance.
•    Wider business and Legal stakeholders worldwide (in conjunction with local teams).

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate

• Qualified to practice as a solicitor/attorney or barrister/advocate.
• 4+ years of post-qualification experience at a financial institution, financial technology firm or law firm working on cross border matters
• Banking experience (including in areas such as deposits, payments, trade finance and lending) preferred (although we welcome strong applicants with an interest and willingness to learn).
• Experience of complex cross-border transactions preferred (although we welcome strong applicants with an interest and willingness to learn).
• Experience providing advice to a financial institution business with a small and medium-sized enterprise client-base preferred (although we welcome strong applicants with an interest and willingness to learn).
• A business sense (including the ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), strong transaction management qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness, and the ability to operate in areas of ambiguity.
• Strong drafting skills and the ability to work proactively and independently.
• Personal authority and an ability to establish relationships with stakeholders.
• Ability to collaborate and work dynamically with group, regional and local stakeholders in a complex and diverse organisation.

Qualifications

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Qualified to practice as a solicitor/attorney or barrister/advocate.
• 4+ years of post-qualification experience at a financial institution, financial technology firm or law firm.
• Banking experience (including in areas such as deposits, payments, trade finance and lending).
• Experience of complex cross-border transactions.
• Experience providing advice to a financial institution business with a small and medium-sized enterprise client-base.

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.

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