Senior Legal Counsel

Job SummarY

1. Provide legal support to the Wealth Management and Bancassurance ("WM") Singapore business, with primary responsibility for the review and approval of all Wealth Management and Bancassurance products in Singapore in order to support the Group WM strategic agenda in Singapore.
2. I dentify and find ways to reduce legal and reputational risk.
3. Control the quality and cost of legal services provided by external law firms.

Specifically:

• Proactive management of legal and regulatory risks for WM across a variety of asset classes (including securities, structured products, funds and insurance products) and related segments in Singapore (Consumer, Private and Business Banking or CPBB).
• Central point of reference in Singapore for WM legal issues for country, Group, business and functional stakeholders.
• Use technical knowledge of WM products/ segments to provide sound, technical product, legal and transactional advice, anticipate the impact of legal and regulatory developments on the business and communicate such impact to the business.
• Proactive management support of legal and regulatory risks in selling WM products in Singapore.
• Develop appropriate forms of documentation for products and transactions in Singapore and, where required, support the creation of global standard documentation.
• Support the standardization of key processes and documentation for WM products.
• Work with Group Legal, Group Compliance and Singapore Compliance functions to ensure that robust local product/ provider diligence processes, product documentation and pre and post sales governance of WM products and services, in accordance with group standards, are properly embedded in Singapore.
• As part of the products approval process, ensure material legal and compliance risks are identified and appropriately mitigated. Review and approve the Singapore country addenda of applicable Product Program Guidelines for local and cross-border regulatory risks.
• Drive the development and maintenance of good relationships with internal and external business stakeholders at appropriate levels ensuring an open and cooperative environment.
• Provide legal advice, briefings, recommendations and reports on material legal risks and issues to business, country and functional stakeholders.
• Effectively manage the process of engaging external counsel, including providing effective instructions to external counsel and negotiating appropriate fee structures for the transaction in question.

Responsibilities
Strategy
Provide legal support to the Wealth Management and Bancassurance ("WM") Singapore business, with primary responsibility for the review and approval of all Wealth Management and Bancassurance products in Singapore in order to support the Group WM strategic agenda in Singapore.
Risk Management
See above. In particular:

• Proactive management support of legal and regulatory risks in selling WM products in Singapore.
• As part of the products approval process, ensure material legal and compliance risks are identified and appropriately mitigated. Review and approve the Singapore country addenda of applicable Product Program Guidelines for local and cross-border regulatory risks.

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.
• Support the CPBB Singapore business and Legal 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

• CPBB and WM
• LCS
• CFCC

Our Ideal Candidate

• Qualified lawyer with 10+ years of experience, post qualification.
• Experience in and understanding of WM products across a variety of asset classes (including securities, structured products, funds and insurance products).
• Regulatory knowledge of securities and financial advisory regulation in Singapore.
• Good judgment enabling the provision of sound advice in difficult areas of law, regulation and practice and the proactive management of legal risk.
• Strong analytical and innovative legal skills.
• Strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills, multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Ability to work with country and Group business, legal and compliance teams.
• Sound judgment on business practices and reputational risk.
• Personal authority and integrity with proven ability to establish relationships and exert influence at the country level.
• Independence, robustness, ethics and resilience.
• An inquisitive approach to practices, procedures and specific transactions.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Laws and Regulations
• Legal Analysis
• Regulatory Framework and Requirement
• Products and Processes

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 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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