Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate and Investment Banking, AME

Key Responsibilities
Acting as legal product specialist for, and providing legal support to, the Bank's Global Banking and Corporate and Investment Banking businesses in Africa and the Middle East (including Islamic Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions Advisory, Project and Export Finance, Leveraged Acquisition Finance, Financing Solutions and Commercial Real Estate).
Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values.
• Set appropriate tone and expectations for the team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

• 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

• Global Banking; Corporate and Investment Banking, Africa and Middle East.

• Providing legal advice on a transactional basis to the Bank's Global Banking, Islamic finance and Corporate and Investment Banking businesses in Africa and the Middle East.
• Negotiating, drafting and managing documentation as requested and/or as required to support the Bank's Global Banking and Corporate and Investment Banking businesses in Africa and the Middle East.
• Ensuring that appropriate forms of legal documents are used for dealings with third parties which contain adequate protections and remedies to address legal, regulatory, credit and event risk.
• Ensuring that transactions with third parties are valid and enforceable under the laws of the relevant jurisdictions.
• Advising in the structuring of customised finance transactions.
• Providing legal advice on Bank policies, procedures and corporate governance.
• Advising in relation to bespoke projects.

• EDUCATION - A law degree.
• LICENSES - Licensed to practice law in an applicable jurisdiction.
• CERTIFICATIONS - Law.
• LANGUAGES - English and Arabic (preferred).
• Training: Law firm or in-house (5 years minimum).

• 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.

• 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.