Job Duties & Responsibilities:
- Providing legal services for the Bank's Corporate & Institutional Banking including all business units (corporate banking, transaction banking, business support, Credit/CRAD, FI, finance related queries from international branches, and other matters, in each case to support the delivery of the commercial and customer priorities of those functions of the bank in a manner compliant with the bank's legal risk appetite, internal policies and external legal and regulatory obligations.
- Assisting the Bank in understanding its legal risk appetite and, participating in the implementation of a legal strategy, plans and programs across the Bank to enable the organization to deliver on its commercial and customer priorities.
- Advising the Bank's Corporate & Institutional Banking management teams to ensure that legal implications of business decisions are appropriately considered and that the banks operations are compliant with local and international legal and regulatory obligations.
- Supporting Bank Legal's C&IB function in the delivery of high quality and commercially focused legal services that protect the Bank's interests and manage legal exposure within legal risk appetite as defined and understood by the Bank.
- Anticipating, identifying and managing legal risks, and initiating corrective action where necessary, in order to protect the interests of the Bank.
- The role will also involve the management of relationships with external counsel and ensuring that external counsel service and costs are appropriate at all times, and that external counsel deliver effective advice.
- 5-7 years of experience, preferably in either an international law firm, or banking sector.
