Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced legal professional to provide practical and timely advice on legal and regulatory matters affecting Standard Chartered Bank Uganda. The role will support sound corporate governance, help protect the Bank’s interests and ensure that transactions, documentation and business activities comply with applicable Ugandan laws and regulatory requirements.

This is an individual contributor role requiring strong legal judgement, commercial awareness and the ability to independently manage legal matters while working effectively with senior management, Board members, regulators, business and functional teams, regional colleagues and external legal advisers. The role requires a proactive, solutions-oriented approach to legal risk management, with a strong focus on supporting the Bank's business objectives and corporate governance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Legal Advisory and Regulatory Risk

• Provide practical and advice on legal and regulatory risks affecting the Bank’s operations in Uganda.
• Monitor changes in legislation, regulation, case law and legal precedent, escalating material implications where appropriate.
• Support business and functional teams in interpreting and applying relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain policies, processes and standard documentation that support effective management of legal risk.
• Deliver legal risk trainings and prepare relevant legal updates and bulletins.

Contracts, Transactions and Product Support

• Draft, review, negotiate and advise on banking and finance transactions including cross border transactions, commercial agreements and other legal documentation involving customers, counterparties and third parties.
• Ensure that contractual arrangements provide appropriate legal protections, remedies and enforceability under Ugandan law.
• Support the development and review of products, Product Programmes and standard-form documentation from a legal perspective.

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills

• Legal advisory and regulatory risk management.
• Commercial contract drafting, review and negotiation.
• Corporate governance and company secretarial support.
• Strong legal analysis, judgement and problem-solving capability.
• Effective stakeholder communication and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment and take ownership of matters through to completion.
• Strong organisational skills, attention to detail and ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Proactive, collaborative and solutions-oriented approach, with strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Laws degree.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre, or an equivalent recognised qualification.
• Qualified lawyer with eligibility to practise in Uganda.
• At least five years of relevant post qualification legal experience.
• Demonstrable experience in banking and finance, corporate and commercial transactions, and/or financial services regulation.
• Experience in legal advisory, contract drafting and negotiation, regulatory risk and dispute resolution.
• Experience in a financial institution or law firm with demonstrable experience in banking and finance matters.
• Experience in engaging senior management, regulators and diverse business stakeholders.
• Experience in corporate governance or company secretarial matters would be an added advantage
• Strong written and spoken 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.