Job Summary

•    Good business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity.
•    Ability to collaborate and work dynamically across country, region, business and group stakeholders.
•    Understanding of the key features of relevant laws and regulations relevant to the Group.
•    Understanding of risk management techniques
•    Sound judgement of business practices, regulatory relationship management and reputational risk
•    Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence, and resilience
•    Personal authority with proven ability to establish relationships at senior levels of the relevant business and the Group, and stakeholders.
•     Ready and open to changes and learning

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Provide inputs in shaping the Country Legal’s strategic direction.
•    Work with in -country stakeholders to deliver against the Country Legal’s strategic initiative.

Business

•    Optimise operating efficiency while balancing the effectiveness of decision making within the Country Legal function.
•    Assist to develop effective litigation risk management strategies and timely deploy these strategies across products and channels.
•    Monitoring developments in the law and, as necessary, provide advice to the Bank and develop appropriate responses.
•    Driving a risk-based approach to legal and governance issues and responses;
•    Drafting, negotiating, and advising on a wide range of legal agreements and transactions;
•    Overseeing and managing legal disputes, including but not limited to findings arising from internal and external audits; and
•    Building collaborative and productive working relationships throughout the Bank and with key external stakeholders.

Processes
•    Act quickly and decisively when any risk and control weakness becomes apparent and ensure they are addressed within an appropriate timeframe and escalated through the relevant committees
•    Continuously improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of litigation risk management processes
•    Retrieve litigation related documents and create/maintain litigation files, where required.
•    Maintain detailed list of litigations, keep up to date status of litigations and liaison with external counsels in dealing with litigation.

People & Talent
•    Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values within the team
•    Encourage and promote an active training and learning environment to facilitate excellence in legal risk management, legal risk awareness, behaviours and accountability.

Risk Management
•    Identify material Legal risks in Vietnam and communicate these to Head, Legal, Vietnam, as necessary.
•    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 their areas of responsibility.
•    Maintain an awareness and understanding of the top risks facing the Group and the role played in managing them.

Other tasks are assigned by Country Head of Legal 

Qualifications

• Degree in Law is preferred 
• License: Lawyer License 
• Languages: Vietnamese and English 

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

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 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.