Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Purpose

• To support the Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking (\xe2\x80\x9cCCIB\xe2\x80\x9d) 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 based in Kuala Lumpur.
• To promote a culture and practice of good conduct of business and adherence to a standards within the Group

Responsibilities

• To review, advise, draft and negotiate client lending documentation, NDAs and other ancillary client documentation to ensure that they meet the Group\xe2\x80\x99s policies and standards and applicable law, including against internal checklists and liaising with CCIB Business and Legal teams in relation to the same. The scope of the role is global and will cover each of the CCIB Business and Product areas.
• To review client lending documentation to ensure that it meets the Group\xe2\x80\x99s policies and standards, including against internal checklists and liaising with CCIB Business and Legal Teams in relation to the same.
• To assist with client contractual queries from the CCIB 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 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.
• Responsible for adhering to the Group Contracts Policy, applicable product Legal DOIs and any CCIB 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
• To provide guidance to, and development of, junior members of the team.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Group CCIB Legal
• Country CCIB Legal

Key Behaviours

• 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.

Our Ideal Candidate

Must be a qualified lawyer in a common law jurisdiction (solicitor, attorney or barrister) with 5+ years\xe2\x80\x99 post qualification experience and have:

• Must completed Bachelors/Master of Law in international universities (Not Local Malaysia Universities)

• A good knowledge and understanding of technology and commercial contract requirements including intellectual property and data protection. Experience of outsourcing is preferred but not essential
• A good knowledge in current technology and innovation trends (preferably in the financial industry) such as API, blockchain, digital platforms, virtual and digital banking and other FinTech initiatives as well experience in traditional technology procurement topics such as IP, Cloud, e-commerce, data privacy, information security.
• Experience in the banking industry (whether through in-house or private practice) is preferred but not mandatory.
• Experience in leading, structuring, and executing a wide variety of technology and innovation transactions with a strong emphasis on internal and external stakeholder management.
• Experience in contract legal support (in-house or private practice) and business acumen
• Experience in reviewing contracts using contract templates and/or using contract guidance/playbooks
• Ability to draft contract terms to meet requirements
• Ability to negotiate contract terms with third parties
• Understanding of risk management techniques
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence and resilience

Role Specific Technical Competencies

Skills and Qualities

• Technical proficiency: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint and willingness to learn and use new template management applications;
• Fluent in English (spoken and written);
• 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.
• Ability to provide practical solutions within the discipline of legal framework
• Self-initiated and independent worker;
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence and resilience;
• Sharp business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and cultural awareness and sensitivity. Understanding of risk management techniques.
• 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.
• Personal authority with proven ability to establish relationships and provide strong direction at senior levels of the business and with external stakeholders.
• Good interpersonal and people management skills.

About Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks 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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