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 (including the Global Credit Markets product Business Head, relevant individuals in the Global Credit Markets product business team, relevant individuals within the COO function and other relevant Global Credit Markets representatives) and provide them with legal advice, guidance and support.
- Providing 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 and, if applicable, the Group's minimum standards and guidance for the relevant product(s) or service(s).
- Act as lead lawyer for complex multi-jurisdictional GCM transactions in Asia, 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.
Processes
- Provide assurance to the Global Credit Markets legal team on the management of legal enforceability risk within the context of the relevant risk management system in place at the time.
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 (including training, advice and support) to ensure that policies, procedures and standards addressing legal risk are effectively implemented in respect of Global Credit Markets in a context appropriate to the relevant risk management system in place at the time.
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, including regulatory and business conduct, across the Standard Chartered Group. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- 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. 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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