Standard Chartered—Senior Legal Counsel, Global Banking Legal

Job description

Description: Key Responsibilities • Member of a team providing Capital Markets (“CM”) related legal advice with respect to new products and CM initiatives. • Provide transactional support to CM business having regard to Product Programme Authorisation (PPG)/Country Addenda (CA) parameters and, if applicable, the Group’s minimum standards and guidance for the relevant product(s) or service(s). • Manage (in consultation with others) strategy in relation to legal matters relating to CM. • Drafting and negotiating legal documents for CM transactions including engaging with relevant internal stakeholders. • Managing external counsel on ad hoc transactions include as to costs, quality and responsiveness of advice. • Keep up to date with relevant changes in law and regulatory reforms. • Identify, assess, manage, monitor, mitigate and report legal risks across CM. • Support and implement the vision, strategy and direction for the wider SCB Legal team. • Support the priorities and agenda of CM as well as their wider Group priorities and agenda. Strategy • Possesses technical knowledge of the legal landscape for CM. • Lead and take responsibility for providing legal advice, guidance and support to business units and stakeholders on all legal matters relating to CM. • Maintain close relationships with stakeholders including the Coverage Legal Head, Global Head Capital Markets Legal, Head Capital Markets Legal Asia and CM Business Heads to provide them with relevant legal advice, guidance and support. • Promote a culture and practice of compliance with legal standards (including conducting business within legal and regulatory requirements, with high ethical standards). • Lead through example and build an appropriate culture and values. • Help to embed and implement global legal standards for CM taking into account regional/country issues. • Help to ensure that regulatory reform/changes are appropriately assessed within Legal from a CM impact perspective and that any regulatory reform is appropriately escalated and managed. • Develop thought leadership capability as a member of the Global Banking Legal team. • Awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role. Business • Act as lead lawyer for complex multi-jurisdictional CM transactions, collaborating with the relevant regional and/or country Head of Legal to provide seamless support to the business. • Work with Product and other stakeholders to structure and define parameters for new products and initiatives and develop template legal documentation. • Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates. • Drive improvements to documentation processes and develop template legal documentation for CM and CSDG businesses that are fit for purpose and promote standardisation across the Group. • Implement global standards and initiatives for legal matters in relation to all CM businesses, including the Bank’s position on departures from standard clauses, and applying a consistent approach to management of issues, in particular, to matters relating to regulatory reform. • Support and oversee internal legal, external legal counsels and business teams supporting/working within CM and drive operational efficiencies/improvements. • Promote clarity and understanding of CM documentation within the CM teams and if required, to conduct relevant training to CM and CSDG teams around documentation. • Identify and find ways to reduce legal and reputational risk. • Ensure that regulatory reform/changes are appropriately assessed and managed from a CM Legal perspective. • Manage the quality and cost of legal services provided by external law firms and to approve the selection of external law firms. • Interface with country legal and compliance on local regulatory issues. Processes • Assist in procuring those appropriate forms of legal documents are used for transactions with adequate protections and remedies for the Bank and help management determine that transactions are valid and enforceable under the laws of all relevant jurisdictions. • Be aware of and have an understanding of relevant CM and Legal policies, product programmes and processes. 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 CM. • Build strong and collaborative relationships with legal colleagues, the business and other stakeholders within the wider SCB network. • Provide leadership and coaching to more junior members of the team to enable them to be highly engaged and perform to their potential. • Promote best practice and lessons learned across CM Legal team, especially in relation to legal risks and compliance with relevant regulations and internal policies/procedures in respect of CM. Risk Management • Have an appreciation for where the management of legal enforceability risk fits within the overall risk appetite of the Bank (including the ability to interpret legal documentation, statutes, regulation and advice and identify key issues based on this information). • Establish, maintain and manage effective global processes (including training, advice and support) to ensure that policies, procedures and standards addressing legal risk are effectively implemented in respect of CM in a context appropriate to the relevant risk management system in place at the time. Governance • Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Bank operates and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to role. • Ensure that any papers being tabled by Legal at any relevant governance committees have been reviewed from a CM Legal perspective. • Ensuring compliance with the Group's overall Risk Management Framework including identifying, assessing, managing, monitoring, mitigating and reporting legal risks across CM in India. • Ensure that policies, procedures and standards to address legal risks are effectively complied with on transactions that is worked on. 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, 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. • Lead the CM team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles. • Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. Key stakeholders • Coverage Legal Heads • Product Heads of Legal • CM Legal members and other legal colleagues across the Bank • Business Heads of CM and appropriate colleagues in the CM business and product teams • DCC and DCC Secretariat • Appropriate colleagues in other functions such as Compliance, Credit, Audit, Integrated Middle Office, Tax and Operations. Other Responsibilities • Support the embedding of Here for Good and Group’s brand and values. • Lead from a CM Legal perspective on any bank-wide projects requiring input. • Anticipate and escalate impact of regulatory reform, horizon legal risks that may have a significant impact on the CM businesses. Skills and Experience • Technical focus in debt capital markets. • Professional integrity • Manage complex legal issues efficiently • Stakeholder management • Understanding risk management techniques • Strategy Qualifications • Qualified to practice as an advocate in India with minimum of 5 years, post qualification experience in financial products or banking industry. • Technical focus in debt capital markets. • Experience in private practice as part of the banking/capital markets team or in-house in the financial services sector • Proven familiarity ideally with ICMA and other industry documentation • Ability to identify and handle complex legal issues efficiently and within stated timelines. • Sharp business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal and communication skills and multi- cultural awareness and sensitivity. • Understanding of risk management techniques. • Ability to collaborate and work dynamically across country, region, business and group stakeholders. • Sound judgment of business practices, regulatory relationship management and reputational risk. • Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence and resilience. • Personal authority with proven ability to establish relationships and provide strong direction at senior levels of the business and the Group, and with key stakeholders. • An inquisitive approach to practices, procedures and specific transactions. • Disciplined approach towards timelines and tracking all steps required in order to implement the strategic approach. • High standards of professional integrity. • High level of sustained personal and team motivation. 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.