Legal Counsel

Job ID: 34343

Location: Kuala Lumpur, MY

Area of interest: Legal

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 16 Jul 2025

**Job Summary**
- To support the Corporate Institutional Banking (“CIB”) Legal Team on day to day legal, operational and administration matters as a member of the Group Commercial Legal Centre of Excellence (COE) based in Kuala Lumpur. The role will have a specific focus on paralegal tasks.
- To provide additional legal, operational and administrative support to other Group and Country Legal teams where required.
- To promote a culture and practice of good conduct of business and adherence to a standards within the Group.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- To support legal, operational and administrative tasks for the CIB Business and Legal Team and Group Commercial Legal.
- To review, draft and validate NDAs and other ancillary client documentation to ensure they meet the Group’s policies and standards and applicable law. The scope of the role is global and will cover each of the CIB Business and Product areas.
- To review client lending documentation to ensure that it meets the Group’s policies and standards, including against internal checklists and liaising with CIB Business and Legal Teams in relation to the same.
- To assist with client contractual queries from the CIB Business and Legal Teams, including contract reviews and research, risk assessments and the preparation of advice and reports.
- To collaborate with and assist other legal teams across the Group to ensure appropriate overall matter management, including addressing product-specific considerations and local law requirements. Where external counsel is appointed, to support the management of the engagement.
- To provide stakeholders with accurate and timely information and advice regarding the status of contract matters and other matter reporting.
- To assist with continuous improvement initiatives in relation to the contract process, workflow, stakeholder guidance, playbooks and templates.
- To keep up to date with relevant Group policies and standards and applicable law.
- To support on team administration tasks.
- Responsible for adhering to the Group Contracts Policy, applicable product Legal DOIs and any CIB Compliance policies and frameworks / playbooks relating to specified client activity.

**Key Responsibilities**

**KEY BEHAVIOURS**
- **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.
- Taking personal and team responsibility for achieving the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
- Governance: establish strong relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, while independently performing own duties.
- Risk management: provide guidance and support on legal and operational risk identification and management.
- Commercial: pragmatic, creative and solution-oriented with good judgment and decision-making skills.
- Proactive: able to use initiative and ready to identify issues without being asked.
- Flexible: able and willing to work long hours and, at short notice, travel to, and work in, challenging environments for periods of time (if required).
- Team player: personable, responsible, helpful.
- Organised: able to prioritise workload and manage conflicting priorities to meet deadlines. Strong attention to detail to highlight potential risks in contracts and errors.
- Reliable, tactful, discreet, diplomatic: able to work with staff across varying levels of seniority and from different nationalities and cultures.
- Self-motivated: able to operate independently with mínimal supervision.
- Energetic: enthusiastic about the role, the function and the Group.

**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 function 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**
- Group CIB Legal
- Country CIB Legal

**Skills and Experience**
- Microsoft Word- Powerpoint, Excel**Qualifications**
- Degree in Law or a junior lawyer with 1-3 years’ experience
- Experience in a Legal environment
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