Legal Counsel

1 week ago

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Standard Chartered Full time

**Job**: Legal

**Primary Location**: Asia-Malaysia-Kuala Lumpur

**Schedule**: Full-time

**Employee Status**: Permanent

**Posting Date**: 06/Mar/2024, 9:04:49 PM

**Unposting Date**: Ongoing

**The Role Responsibilities**

**Job Role**
- Able to work with senior management to develop and implement approved strategy.
- Able to collaborate and work dynamically with country, region, business and Group stakeholders.
- Able to interact with a culturally diverse team across functions and geographies.
- High level of sustained personal motivation.
- Responsibility and perseverance.
- High standards of professional integrity.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong communication skills (oral, written and presentation).
- Strategic mindset.
- Strong understanding of the operational environment, processes, and risk management and controls needed to execute the LCS functions’ requirements.
- Able to make balanced and careful judgments and decisions.
- Good commercial judgment with the ability to prioritise an extensive and complex set of issues.
- Good teamwork skills, including the ability to work with a management team, to help them support their peers in the business.
- Results-orientated mindset.
- Exceptional energy and ambition to drive systems, technology and process changes across the team.
- Strong interpersonal skills to deal with a cross-border team to achieve superior results.

**Strategy**

Support the Head Legal, GBS to
- Implement the vision, strategy and direction of the GBS Legal Team (“GBS Legal”).
- Develop the legal service delivery model and a best-in-class legal operational approach to the team’s global legal activity, including through the adoption of legal technology.
- Develop thought leadership capability - as demonstrated by visibility within the Group and externally (in the industry) - as a senior point of contact for GBS Legal related legal advice and expertise.
- Promote a culture and practice of good conduct of business and adherence to legal standards within the Group.

**Business**
- Take responsibility for providing legal advice, guidance and support to business units and stakeholders across GBS on all legal matters. This will include intragroup outsourcing and other services provided by GBS to the SCB Group, vendor and other third-party contracts for GBS, third party risk management and country legal support for GBS.
- Maintain close relationships with stakeholders including the GBS Management Teams and other committees within GBS and to proactively provide them with relevant legal advice, guidance and support on relevant legal and regulatory issues.
- Provide support on regulatory remediation and operational transformation initiatives and related change management in respect of processes, policies, standards and contract documentation.
- Support the Head Legal / legal team during escalation of any material legal issues for GBS.
- Manage or support disputes involving GBS in line with Group requirements, including in respect of disputes in relation to other SCB Group entities to the extent GBS entities are involved in the dispute.
- Manage or support cross border investigations and information request orders involving GBS in line with Group requirements and in conjunction with the DGIL Team.
- Ensure close coordination with other Legal teams to ensure optimal legal support and advice is provided on GBS Legal matters.
- Drive best practice and lessons learned across the network and create and provide training on legal issues related to GBS Legal activities.

**Processes**

Responsible for adhering to the Group Contracts Policy, the Group’s Third-Party Risk Management Framework and related policies and standards.
- Adhere to the team’s Department Operating Instructions for third party contracts and keep them under review.
- Support with continuous improvement initiatives in relation to contract management processes, workflow and other process and legal operations tools as well as contract playbooks, guidance and templates.
- Follow frameworks to identify, assess, manage, monitor, mitigate and report legal matters related to GBS Legal activities.
- Keep up to date with Group policies and standards and applicable law across the Group.
- Where external counsel is appointed, manage those appointments in accordance with the Group Engaging External Counsel policy including ensuring the scope of work is defined and appropriate, overseeing the quality of work and managing external legal costs.

**People and Talent**
- To be self-motivated and undergoing training to ensure professional and personal development.
- Assist the Head Legal in maintaining a motivated GBS Legal team.
- Engage relevant stakeholders (e.g. business functions, support functions and Legal colleagues) to obtain regular feedback on GBS Legal’ s performance.
- Provide input at business, function and country levels (as appropriate) on legal matters which may have a bearing on GBS Legal matters.

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