Job Summary

• Provide legal counsel to Cash Product Managers relating to the Bank’s Digital Currencies Programme and other Cash matters, including tokenized deposits and stablecoin payout / pay-in services.
• Proactively engage Cash Product Managers to discuss new product initiatives and expansion into new geographies; ensure that legal and product-specific risks and issues are identified and appropriately addressed/mitigated.
• Develop appropriate legal templates for agreements with clients and service providers, with adequate protections and remedies to address the requirements and considerations set out in the product governance documents and Legal Department DOIs.
• Provide legal support and advice at Group level (multi-regional implementation) in the review and negotiation of legal documentation with clients and service providers.
• Provide guidance and advice to other colleagues in the Legal function as subject matter expert on Cash matters.
• This is a Direct contract role for 6 months

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Work with other members of the Cash Legal team on the management of Cash related legal matters.
•    Provide legal advice, guidance and support to stakeholders across the Group on Cash related matters.
•    Develop a keen sense in identifying potential risks and issues. 
•    Display excellent role modelling regarding good conduct and a collaborative team spirit.

Business
•    Be part of a specialist legal team providing Cash related legal advice to the Group and regional teams.
•    Ensure that external legal costs are incurred for Cash matters only where necessary and the amount is reasonable.

Processes
•    Develop and maintain Cash Legal templates and documentation checklists.
•    Provide legal advice and support in the review and negotiation of legal documentation with clients and service providers, to ensure that legal and regulatory requirements, the Bank’s policies and minimum legal documentation standards, and product requirements are complied with.

People & Talent
•    Develop and deliver effective functional training for legal, product and business colleagues.

Risk Management
•    Provide Legal’s advice and input on Cash services and transactions, to ensure that legal and other risks/issues are identified, considered and appropriately addressed /mitigated.
•    Collaborate with other risk and control functions, including CFCR, Credit, Ops Risk and Tax, to assess and address risks relating to Cash matters.

Governance
•    Have an awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates and the regulatory requirements and expectations applicable to Cash services.
•    Keep abreast of developments in the law which impact Cash services, and provide feedback and advice to the relevant stakeholders as required.

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

•    Global Head of Payments
•    Global Head of Emerging Payments
•    Cash Product Managers
•    CFCR Advisory, Cash

Our Ideal Candidate

• Qualified Lawyer in a common law jurisdiction with 8 plus years as Post Qualified Experience
• Strong analytical and legal reasoning skills.
• Strong understanding of fundamental concepts of contract law.
• Experience in general banking and cash management services (e.g. bank accounts, payments, collections and clearing) preferred.
• Motivated team player.
• Direct Contract Duration – 6 months

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Aalyticsl and legal reasoning.
•    Concepts of contract law.
•    Banking and cash management services (e.g. bank accounts, payments, collections and clearing) preferred.

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.

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