Legal Counsel

Job Summary

• To support the Corporate Institutional Banking ("CIB") Business and Legal Team and Group Commercial Legal on day to day legal, operational and administration matters as a member of the Legal Centre of Excellence (COE) based in Kuala Lumpur.
• To promote a culture and practice of good conduct of business and adherence to a standards within the Group.

Key Responsibilities

• To review, advise, draft and negotiate client lending documentation, NDAs and other ancillary client documentation to ensure that they meet the Group's policies and standards and applicable law, including against internal checklists and liaising with CIB Business and Legal teams in relation to the same. The scope of the role is global and will cover each of the CIB Business and Product areas
• 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 analyse potential risks involved with specific contract teams and other risk owners
• To provide stakeholders with accurate and timely information and advice regarding the status of contract matters and other matter reporting. To keep up to date with relevant Group policies and standards and applicable law.
• 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.
• To support with continuous improvement initiatives in relation to contract processes, workflow, guidance, playbooks and templates and provide training on contract legal issues to legal teams and other stakeholders.
• To collaborate and coordinate with other legal teams across the Bank to ensure appropriate overall matter management. Where external counsel is appointed, to manage the engagement, oversee the quality of work and effective delivery of legal support and manage external legal costs.
• To support on team management and administration tasks where required

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 minimal supervision.
• Energetic: enthusiastic about the role, the function and the Group.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Ability to pay close attention to detail with a high degree of accuracy.
• Ability to appreciate the importance of how digitisation and technology impacts our documentation systems and framework. Willingness to learn and use new template management applications.
• Ability to provide practical solutions within the discipline of legal framework.
• Sound judgment of business practices, regulatory relationship management and reputational risk.
• Must have strategic mindset, ability to take bold decisions when required and work in a collaborative manner.

Key Stakeholders

• Group CIB Legal
• Country CIB Legal

Qualifications

• Qualified to practice as a solicitor/attorney or barrister/advocate
• 5+ years of experience in managing general corporate lending matters in private practice or in-house
• Familiarity with LMA/APLMA form of loan documentation

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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