Job Summary

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We are looking to hire an experienced credit derivatives, structured credit and securitisation lawyer in Singapore or Malaysia to join our collaborative and innovative Global Markets Asia legal team – a team that has a strong standing as a strategic advisor to, and valued partner of, the Global Markets (GM) business. 
The successful candidate will provide legal advisory and legal risk management advice to support a successful and growing GM business in Asia.

Responsibilities include:

•    Advising Global Markets Sales, Structuring, Trading and functions in primarily credit derivatives, structured credit and securitisation transactions, but with flexibility to extend coverage to other asset classes and products such as FX, Rates, Commodities, Equities and Digital Assets
•    providing support with respect to global and local regulatory reform initiatives
•    supporting and implementing applicable Group legal standards, practices, and requirements
•    providing input for internal governance forum, such as risk and netting forum and internal working groups
•    engaging with and contribute to regional industry bodies (e.g., ISDA, ISLA, ASIFMA) on market initiatives in Asia
•    working in close collaboration with other Legal colleagues, as well as other functions supporting the GM businesses
•    supporting process ownership and escalation by Legal for Operational Risk Framework
•    Experience in credit derivatives is a key requisite. Experience in Asia financial markets products is advantageous. 

Key Responsibilities

Strategy

Execute Legal’s strategy and contributions to group ROTE:
•    Provide general structuring, product, regulatory and transactional legal advice.
•    Negotiate, complete and facilitate execution of transaction documentation.
•    Review, maintain and manage product and transactional templates.
•    Provide training on legal/documentation product and regulatory matters and legal policies and procedures.
•    Provide legal review and sign-off required under relevant policies and procedures.
•    Liaise with external counsel and with regional and client segment legal and compliance colleagues.
•    Provide advice on disputes and potential defaults.

Business

•    Assist in the identification of material legal and jurisdictional risks for the relevant businesses.
•    Anticipate and assesses key legal developments in the business for management consideration and help drive the development and implementation of appropriate legal framework.
•    Undertake continual assessment of legal and documentation risks.
•    Participate in the overall governance of a business.
•    Control, monitor and report external legal spending.

Processes

•    Manage documentation templates automation.
•    Legal knowledge management. 
•    Assist with review of and compliance with policies and procedures.
•    Assist in process governance committees and operational risks committees.
•    Assist in management of client dispute resolution, if any. 
•    Review and provide legal signoffs for product and country governance documents.
•    Consider and analyse cross border legal and regulatory risks.
•    Monitor and advise on regulatory reform developments in Asia.

People and Talent

•    Build strong relationships with relevant business stakeholders and functions.

Risk Management

•    Assist in the identification of material legal and jurisdictional risks for the relevant businesses.
•    Anticipate and assesses key legal developments in the business for management consideration and help drive the development and implementation of appropriate legal framework.
•    Undertake continual assessment of legal and documentation risks.
•    Participate in the overall governance of a business.
•    Determine adequacy, validity, and enforceability of contractual documentation.

Governance

•    Review and provide legal signoffs for product and country governance documents.
•    Design, develop and approve new product documentation and country specific documentation.
•    Consider and analyse cross border legal and regulatory risks.

Regulatory and 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.
•    Achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles. 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

Financial Markets business heads, structuring, sales located or supporting the Asia region. Other functions and legal department colleagues supporting the GM Business. 

Other Responsibilities

Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Legal; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures

Skills and Experience

Our Ideal Candidate -

• 10+ years of post-qualifying experience as a lawyer in Singapore, England or other commonwealth jurisdictions. 
• Experience in Global Markets and derivatives work a key requisite. 
• Experience of financial markets and products, documentation, and regulations, in respect of credit derivatives, structured credit, structured products and financing

Role Specific Technical Competencies –

• Degree in Law
• Credit Derivatives
• Financial Markets

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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