Legal Counsel - 12 Months Fixed Term

Role Responsibilities
Retail Banking Legal, Hong Kong, provides legal support to Retail Banking business segments of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited ("SCBHK"). These segments include Priority Private, Priority Banking, Premium Banking, Personal Banking and Business Banking. Products provided within these segments include wealth management, lending, deposits and credit card products.
Strategy
P rovide day-to-day legal advice and support to Retail Banking segments and products in Hong Kong:

• draft and review legal documentation relating to Retail Banking, Hong Kong;
• provide legal support to new business initiatives that impact Retail Banking in Hong Kong;
• liaise and work closely with, and provide, where appropriate, advice to, Retail Banking Compliance in relation to matters that may have a regulatory impact on Retail Banking, Hong Kong;
• drafting and reviewing replies and reports to regulators involving Retail Banking, Hong Kong;
• assisting with regulatory queries, complaints and investigations affecting Retail Banking, Hong Kong;
• liaise with business units on regulatory queries, complaints and investigations involving Retail Banking, Hong Kong;
• liaise and work closely with, and provide, where appropriate, advice to, Group Retail Banking and Regional Legal and Compliance in relation to Hong Kong legal matters involving global or regional aspects;
• design and implement policies to promote and ensure effective risk management within Retail Banking, Hong Kong;
• analyze, manage and resolve or escalate issues that have legal impact on SCBHK's Retail Banking business or operations in Hong Kong;
• ensure external legal resources are managed properly and efficiently and are cost effective;
• in conjunction with Group or Regional Legal where appropriate, assist with the formation of dispute resolution strategies and oversee litigations in Hong Kong relating to SCBHK' Retail Banking;
• provide training to staff to enhance legal awareness of banking and finance laws in Hong Kong for Retail Banking;
• encourage colleagues to raise legal questions and discuss legal issues with Retail Banking Legal; and

• A ssist with the management of, and enhance the Group's relationships with, SCBHK's regulators.
Processes

• Provide assistance to Head, Legal, Retail Banking, Hong Kong in managing Country Legal Panel in Hong Kong;
• Responsibility over logistical and operational matters arising in Hong Kong which relate to the Retail Banking Legal, working with the Legal COO team;
• Where external counsel is appointed for matters in relation to retail banking business, ensure that the scope of work is defined and appropriate, the quality of work is overseen effectively, legal costs are managed, and that there is appropriate overall matter management;
• Work closely with, engage with and provide legal support where necessary to, SIS & Subsidiary Governance; and
• Contribute to and execute organisational design strategies consistently with the Legal Target Operating Model.

People & Talent

• Accountable, and has primary responsibility over matters of retail banking legal team in HK assigned.
• Working collaboratively with other members of the retail banking and wider legal team.

Risk Management

• Identify material legal risks and themes in HK relating to retail banking and communicate these to the relevant MTs and Legal COO as necessary;
• Work with Legal COO on risk management issues concerning the legal function of the retail business in Hong Kong;
• Within the Group's overall Risk Management Framework, establish and maintain an appropriate risk-based approach to assessing, measuring, monitoring, managing and reporting legal risk arising in area of responsibility;
• Assist Head, Legal, Retail Banking, Hong Kong in acting as Risk Framework Owner for Legal Enforceability Risk Sub-type arising in HK retail banking business as set out in the Group's Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
• Maintain an awareness and understanding of the top risks facing SCBHK and the role played in managing them.

Governance

• Assist Head, Legal, Retail Banking, Hong Kong in acting as a member or invitee of the relevant MT and other committees and governance forums;
• Where required, ensure that accurate and clearly articulated papers are prepared for the above committees and forums with appropriate consideration of legal risks and where legal risks are involved; and
• Work with local regulators (when required to do so) in an open and cooperative manner.

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.
• Lead the retail banking legal team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles: Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• As Legal Counsel, Retail Banking, Hong Kong of SCBHK, principally responsible for the retail banking business or affair under Schedule 14 of the Banking Ordinance relating to the Hong Kong business operations of SCBHK and its subsidiaries.

Key stakeholders

• Legal, Hong Kong & Asia
• CPBB, Hong Kong & Asia
• CFCC, CPBB, Hong Kong & Asia
• FCC, Hong Kong & Asia

Our Ideal Candidate

• Qualified to practice as a solicitor in Hong Kong with 2 to 4 years post qualification experience.
• Experience in private practice and in-house of managing complex legal issues.
• Excellent business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Extensive understanding of risk management techniques.
• Sound judgment of business practices, regulatory relationship management and reputational risk.
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence and resilience.

Role Specific Competencies

• Legal landscape
• Regulatory framework and requirements
• Strategy and business model
• Language (Cantonese & English)

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.
• Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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