Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the Bank's business strategy, operating environment and strategic priorities, and contribute to the delivery of the objectives of both the Legal and Business teams. Partner with stakeholders on key strategic initiatives, including the development of new products, services and processes, and the ongoing enhancement of existing business frameworks. Provide strategic, commercially focused legal advice to enable business growth while ensuring robust governance and proactive identification, assessment and management of legal risks arising from the Bank's activities in India.

Business
•    Provide timely, practical and commercially focused legal support to the CIB and TB businesses in India, facilitating the achievement of business objectives within the Bank's risk appetite, legal and regulatory framework.
•    Collaborate with colleagues across the Legal function and other control functions to deliver effective solutions on complex legal, regulatory and business matters impacting the Bank's operations in India.
•    Support the adaptation and implementation of global products, initiatives and documentation in India, ensuring consistency with Group standards while addressing local legal and regulatory requirements.
•    Work closely with Product, Business, Compliance, Operations, Documentation and other stakeholders to facilitate the launch of new products, processes and initiatives, and the enhancement of existing offerings.

Processes
•    Ascertain that the local documents are aligned with the global documents and processes.
•    Identify gaps in legal processes and documentation, and initiate review or remediation as required to address such gaps.
•    Establish, maintain and continuously enhance legal processes and documentation standards to support efficient and consistent delivery of legal services to the business.
•    Collaborate with stakeholders to streamline processes, simplify documentation and improve client and business outcomes while maintaining appropriate legal and regulatory safeguards.

People & Talent
•    Engagement with stakeholders for working towards ease of business and simplification of processes and documents.
•    Collaborate with members of Legal teams across SCB network locations.

Risk Management
•    Identify, assess and categorise legal risks arising from products, transactions, documentation and business initiatives, ensuring that such risks are appropriately evaluated and managed.
•    Determine matters requiring approvals, waivers or escalations under applicable policies and governance frameworks, and ensure that legal risks are promptly highlighted to relevant stakeholders and committees.
•    Provide legal guidance to support informed decision-making, balancing commercial objectives with the Bank’s legal, regulatory and reputational risk considerations.

Governance
•    Ensure compliance of documentation with applicable laws, regulations and Group governance standards.
•    Conduct periodic reviews of product governance documents.

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
•    Legal
•    Business
•    Product specialists
•    Compliance
•    Audit, Risk and Credit
•    Documentation Units
•    Operations

External
•    Law firms (local as well as international)
•    External auditors
•    Peers in other Banks and Financial Institutions
•    Regulators

Other Responsibilities
•    Support for strategic and cross border legal and business initiatives across the SCB franchise.

Skills and Experience

•    Legal landscape
•    Regulatory Framework
•    Business model

Qualifications

•    LL. B. (Bachelor of Laws)
•    A minimum 7– 8 years of experience in banking and finance, gained in private practice and/or an in-house legal function.

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.