Job Summary

•    To provide legal support and advisory services to the Business, Functions, Senior Management and the Board.
•    To lead in the proactive and strategic identification of legal risks and effectively manage and advise on all legal issues in country.
•    To drive the business through legal advice, transaction and product support of the relevant businesses.
•    To provide up-to-date and relevant guidance on the application and interpretation of laws, regulations and policies applicable to the Business and Functions.
•    Act as a central point of reference for the Group, Regional and Sub-Regional Heads of Legal, members of the Legal Leadership Team and others.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Drive the development and maintenance of good relationships with internal and external business stakeholders at appropriate levels ensuring an open and co-operative environment.
•    Providing timely legal advice, briefings and recommendations on key legal issues to stakeholders, including applicable legislation, Banking laws, Governance regulations and policies as may be applicable.
•    Raising awareness of legal risks and issues within the business through targeted training and knowledge sharing.
•    Contributing to the risk governance of the Legal team by being the policy expert in country and by providing a country perspective on Group risk policies and procedures. Ensure that there is a consistent approach in the country to legal risk management.
•    Responsible for rolling out Legal risk policies and procedures, ensuring that Senior Management fully understand the scope and requirements of Legal and related policies and that all necessary dispensations are in place and current.
•    Share best practices throughout the Region through the appropriate channels.
•    Liaise with other SCB functions in a manner which properly recognises the legitimate involvement of Group in the business and affairs of the Bank.

Business
•    Manages all legal issues in country and ensures that transactions and cases are executed in a timely and effective manner.
•    Supports and facilitates internal product development through the new products approval process.
•    Use technical knowledge of all business products to provide sound, technical product, legal and transactional advice to the business and to anticipate and communicate in a timely fashion the impact of legal developments on the business.
•    Develops appropriate forms of documentation for products and transactions in country.
•    Delivers enhanced legal support to the business especially on key transactions.
•    Manages the process of engaging External Legal Counsel, including effective instruction to External Legal Counsel, negotiating appropriate fee structures for the transaction or legal matter

Processes
•    Continuously improves the operational efficiency and effectiveness of processes as they relate to the segment within the job holder’s remit.
•    Ensures effective management of operational risks within the segment and compliance with applicable internal policies and external laws and regulation.

People & Talent
•    Develops and embeds a high performance culture with specific focus on legal expertise and competencies.
•    Employs high quality people to ensure effective succession planning.
•    Develops talent and provides ongoing training to retain suitably skilled and qualified persons for the various roles.
•    Leads and coaches through effective leadership, coaching and engagement.
•    Monitors performance and engages direct reports and provides appropriate feedback and rewards

Risk Management
•    Leads in the proactive and strategic identification of legal risks at a country level.
•    Prepares regular and accurate country legal risk reports and provides clear analysis.
•    Communicates identified risks to country, business and regional stakeholders and influence stakeholders to improve legal risk controls and governance at a country level.
•    Develops and maintains a legal training plan for the Legal team and stakeholders.

Governance
•    Ensuring compliance with the highest standards of regulatory conduct and best practices as defined by internal and external requirements.
•    Embed the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct amongst the Legal team and stakeholders to ensure adherence with the highest standards of ethic and compliance with relevant legislation, policies, processes and regulations among employees and to form part of the culture.

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

Key stakeholders
•    CEO and Board
•    Executive Committee Members (EXCO)
•    Business Units and Functions
•    Other relevant Group Departments
•    Cluster, Heads of Legal
•    External Law Firms and other Service Providers

Our Ideal Candidate

Education
•    Bachelor Of Laws (LLB)
Training
•    Barrister at Law (BL) Master of Laws (LLM)
Licenses
•    Solicitor’s License
•    Membership Ghana Bar Association
Languages
•    English, EWE
 

About Standard Chartered

We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.

Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.

What We Offer

• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
• 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 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.

Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.