Job Summary

We are seeking an individual to join our team at Standard Chartered Bank in New York. The successful candidate will be working directly with the Head, Legal, Transaction Banking, Americas and Head, Legal, Global Banking, Americas, as well as other team members to provide transactional legal advice to the Bank’s New York branch businesses.

We are seeking a highly organized, proactive, and discreet Legal Counsel to support our team. The Legal Counsel will provide expert and strategic legal advice to management on a wide range of banking and corporate topics. You will ensure that the Bank operates within the law at all times, offer counsel on legal issues, and facilitate business strategies by minimizing legal risks.

We appreciate self-driven candidates who excel with contract negotiation, advisory, strategy, risk mitigation, compliance, governance, and external counsel management. In this role, you are not just managing a process, you are a key player with business partners, as well as compliance, risk, operations and other stakeholders. We believe that a willingness to acquire new skills will contribute to success in this role.

Day-to-Day Tasks

• Work with other Legal staff to provide legal coverage for US businesses within Global Banking and Transaction Banking (TB) and general Legal support for all US / Americas / New York law matters as needed.
• Assist Transaction Banking lead lawyer is matters related to trade finance, specifically focused on lending transactions.
• Assist Global Banking lead lawyer on syndicated and bilateral loans; working with external counsel.
• Working with other members of Americas Legal and front office to address legal issues for Region, including direct negotiations with clients and their counsel.
• 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.
• Work closely with Head of Legal, Americas; Head of Legal TB Americas; Head of Legal, Global Banking Americas; RMs/Sales/Products for TB and GB Americas; Credit Americas; Compliance Americas; Trade Ops Americas; External Law firms.

Skills and Experience we look for

• Juris Doctor or other equivalent Legal degree.
• Admitted to practice law in New York State preferred.
• Banking/Finance Law experience is a nice to have.
• Ability to identify legal risk relevant to the applicable businesses, services and documentation.
• Deep expertise in a specialized area (contracts, compliance, corporate law),
• Strong leadership/mentorship, strategic thinking, exceptional communication,
• Proven ability to manage complex transactions and guide senior leadership in dynamic environments
• Awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates and the regulatory requirements relevant to the Americas region.
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
• Managing external counsel and legal vendors.
• Developing and implementing legal processes, playbooks, and best practices.
• Providing guidance on risk management and regulatory changes.
• Serving as a trusted advisor to business units and senior management. 

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.

Recruitment Assessments

Expected annual base pay range for the role is 150,000 USD to 210,000 USD. The final offer will be determined on an individualized basis using a number of variables, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience and education, internal relativity, and specific work location. At Standard Chartered Bank, Base pay is only part of the total compensation package. Discretionary variable pay and a range of attractive bank sponsored benefit programs are available and designed to foster employee overall health and well-being including, but not limited to, a best in class 401k plan with up to 8% employer match, robust medical plan coverage with employer funded Health Savings Accounts, inclusive family building benefits, and flexible/hybrid working arrangements for many of our positions subject to role specific considerations.

Some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

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