Job Summary

•    Heading the team of Coverage, CIB, lawyers providing advice and support to the Coverage business in Philippines. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Act as the primary country legal adviser to the Philippines CEO and Country Management Team (CMT), provide them with strategic and, where appropriate, proactive advice, working with external counsel, Disputes and Government Investigations Legal (DGIL) and Product Legal, as appropriate. 
•    Escalate, as appropriate, any material country legal issues to the Head, Legal, CIB Coverage, ASEAN and/or Global Head, CIB Coverage. 
•    Lead the Philippines Legal team in working with in-country stakeholders to deliver against the Country’s strategic initiatives. 
Business
•    Is accountable for, and has primary responsibility over, legal support for all products being offered in the Philippines. 
•    Is accountable for, and has primary responsibility over, non-material third party disputes in-country. 
•    Provides general legal support, especially leveraging on institutional knowledge, for non-material employment disputes/ negotiations. 
•    Lead the Philippines Legal team in optimising operating efficiency while balancing the effectiveness of decision making within the Philippines Legal function. 
•    Lead the Philippines Legal team in the development of effective litigation risk management strategies and timely deploy these strategies across products and channels. 
Processes
•    Is accountable for, and has primary responsibility over, managing the Philippines Legal Panel. 
•    Has primary responsibility over logistical and operational matters pertaining to the Philippines Legal team. 
•    Lead the Philippines Legal team in continuously improving the operational efficiency and effectiveness of litigation risk management processes. 
•    Oversee the management and updating of litigation items and status, including liaison with external counsel in respect of litigation/dispute items. 

People & Talent
•    Is accountable, and has primary responsibility over, management of the Philippines Legal team, including matters such as staff/ resourcing, capacity planning and professional development. 
•    Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values within the team. 
•    Model behaviour that encourages and promotes an active training and learning environment to facilitate excellence in legal risk management, legal risk awareness, behaviours and accountability. 
Risk Management
•    Identify any material Legal risks and themes in-country and communicate these to the CMT and/or Head, Legal, CIB Coverage, ASEAN and/or Global Head, Legal, CIB Coverage, as appropriate. 
•    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-country. 
•    Act as Process Owner for country processes owner by Legal, where such processes are executed by the Philippines Legal team. 
•    Act as Subject Matter Expert for Legal Enforceability risk arising in-country, as set out in the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework. 
•    Maintain and build awareness and understanding of the top legal risks facing the country and take an active role in managing them. 
Governance
•    Lead the Philippines Legal team in providing oversight on the security documentation process and litigation items, ensuring compliance with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct and compliance practices as defined by internal and external requirements. 

•    Lead the Philippines Legal team in embedding the Group’s values and code of conduct in the security documentation process and litigation management, to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes and regulations among employees form part of the culture 
•    Act as member or permanent invitee of the CMT, CNFRC and other governance forums. 
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
Internal stakeholders 
•    Product Legal teams, Disputes and Government Investigations Legal and other Legal practice groups
•    Country Business teams and Product teams
•    CFCR
•    HR 
External stakeholders 
•    Law firms 
•    Auditors and Regulators 
•    Law enforcement agencies 
•    Suppliers, vendors and consultants (as may be applicable) 
Other Responsibilities
•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Philippines Coverage Legal team; 
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures. 

Skills and Experience

Skills: 
•    Ideally, should have some experience in general and various aspects of banking law (transactional and advisory), and of handling regulatory/government investigations. 
•    Background in local labour/employment law and general dispute/case management. 
Qualities: 
•    Understand risk management techniques. 
•    Sound judgment of business practices, regulatory relationship management and reputational risk. 
•    Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence and resilience. 
•    Being a collaborator and influencer. 
•    Having gravitas and the ability to build a following as a leader. 
•    Excellent leadership and management skills; and flexibility and adaptability, with an aptitude for learning quickly. 

•    Commercial Law
•    Products and Processes
•    Legal Analysis
•    Legal Function
•    Regulatory Framework and Requirements

Qualifications

•    Qualified to practice as a solicitor/attorney or barrister/advocate. 
•    Experience, acquired via private practice or in-house, in managing complex legal issues. 
•    Sharp business acumen (including ability to assess risk and appropriate levels of return), strong leadership qualities, excellent interpersonal skills and multi-cultural awareness and sensitivity. 

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.