Senior Legal Counsel

Our client, a leading international bank, has a bright new opportunity for a Senior Legal Counsel (Director Level) to join their team in London.

The successful candidate will be happy to lead a team on new and innovative projects through evolving regulatory markets, covering cash payments and cryptocurrency as this sector grows.

The Role Responsibilities:

* Providing direction, delegating and removing obstacles to get work done.
* Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.
* Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
* Employ, engage and retain high quality people, with succession planning for critical roles.
* Responsibility to review team structure/capacity plans.
* Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives.
* Awareness and understanding of the Group's business strategy and model appropriate to the role.
* Awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates
* Responsible for executing and supervising the external legal spend process.

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.
* Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles
* Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

The Ideal Candidate:

* Permitted to practice as counsel in local jurisdiction
* Regulatory Knowledge
* Legal Drafting Skill
* Understanding of Transaction Banking Products
* In House Legal Experience
* Private Practice Experience
* Digital Knowledge