Key Responsibilities
Strategy
• Maintain close relationships with stakeholders to provide them with relevant legal advice, guidance and support.
• Provide strategic advice to stakeholders on legal and regulatory issues (and strive to proactively identify such issues), working with external counsel as appropriate.
Business
• Provide legal advice, guidance and support to Wealth & Retail Banking and Functions across Malaysia (including Saadiq) on legal matters.
• Partner with other members of the Legal function on, and contribute (where appropriate and without duplication or overlap) to management of Legal matters.
• Contribute to optimising operating efficiency within the Country Legal function.
• Support development of effective dispute risk management strategies and deployment of these strategies in a timely manner across products and channels.
Processes
• Act quickly when any risk and control weakness become apparent and ensure they are escalated appropriately.
• Continuously improve the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the processes for management of legal papers (court papers, etc) and disputes.
• Manage non-major disputes across the Bank in Malaysia (including for Saadiq).
• Support Disputes and Government Investigations Legal team (DGIL) on management of major disputes in Malaysia.
People & Talent
• Support an active training and learning environment to facilitate excellence in legal risk management, legal risk awareness, behaviours and accountability.
Risk Management
• Identify material legal risks in Malaysia (including affecting Saadiq) and communicate these to the Head, Legal, Malaysia.
• Support Head, Legal, Malaysia in her role as Process Owner for any Country processes owned by Legal where such processes are executed by the country team.
• Support Head, Legal, Malaysia in her role as Process Owner for Contract Enforceability Risks arising in Malaysia (including Saadiq), as set out in the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
Governance
• Provide an oversight on security documentation process in Malaysia (including Saadiq), ensuring compliance with the highest standards of regulatory and business conduct.
• Where external counsel is appointed, liaise with the external counsels to ensure that the scope of work is defined and appropriate, the quality of work is overseen effectively, legal costs are managed and there is appropriate overall matter management.
• Ensure satisfactory closure of legal related issues or gaps arising from internal audits, peer reviews and regulatory reviews.
• Have an awareness and understanding of the regulatory framework in which the Group operates, and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
Regulatory & Business Conduct
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Support the embedding of the highest standards of ethics across all areas of Standard Chartered Bank that they touch on. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
Key Stakeholders
• Internal stakeholders
• Country WRB Business and Product teams
• Product Legal teams
• Other Legal practice groups
• External stakeholders
• Law firms
• Auditors
• Regulators
• Law enforcement agencies
Other Responsibilities
• Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures
Skills and Experience
• Legal Analysis
• Litigation
• Legislative Analysis
• Business Acumen
• Regulatory Framework and Requirements
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.