Legal Counsel

Standard Chartered; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Standard Chartered seeks a Legal Support professional for its Corporate Institutional Banking team in Kuala Lumpur. You will assist in reviewing legal documents, ensuring compliance, and providing operational support. The role requires a law degree and offers a competitive salary with inclusive benefits.

Benefits

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Medical and life insurance

Flexible working options

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Inclusion and diversity initiatives

Qualifications

• 1-3 years’ experience in a legal environment.
• Experience in a global business/function.
• Prior banking experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support legal, operational, and administrative tasks for the CIB Legal Team.
• Draft and validate NDAs and other client documentation.
• Assist with client contractual queries and provide legal advice.

Skills

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Excel

Education

Degree in Law

Job description

Job Summary

• To support the Corporate Institutional Banking (“CIB”) Legal Team on day to day legal, operational and administration matters as a member of the Group Commercial Legal Centre of Excellence (COE) based in Kuala Lumpur. The role will have a specific focus on paralegal tasks.

• To provide additional legal, operational and administrative support to other Group and Country Legal teams where required.

• To promote a culture and practice of good conduct of business and adherence to a standards within the Group.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• To support legal, operational and administrative tasks for the CIB Business and Legal Team and Group Commercial Legal.

• To review, draft and validate NDAs and other ancillary client documentation to ensure they meet the Group’s policies and standards and applicable law. The scope of the role is global and will cover each of the CIB Business and Product areas.

• To review client lending documentation to ensure that it meets the Group’s policies and standards, including against internal checklists and liaising with CIB Business and Legal Teams in relation to the same.

• To assist with client contractual queries from the CIB Business and Legal Teams, including contract reviews and research, risk assessments and the preparation of advice and reports.

• To collaborate with and assist other legal teams across the Group to ensure appropriate overall matter management, including addressing product-specific considerations and local law requirements. Where external counsel is appointed, to support the management of the engagement.

• To provide stakeholders with accurate and timely information and advice regarding the status of contract matters and other matter reporting.

• To assist with continuous improvement initiatives in relation to the contract process, workflow, stakeholder guidance, playbooks and templates.

• To keep up to date with relevant Group policies and standards and applicable law.

• To support on team administration tasks.

• Responsible for adhering to the Group Contracts Policy, applicable product Legal DOIs and any CIB Compliance policies and frameworks / playbooks relating to specified client activity.

Key Responsibilities

KEY BEHAVIOURS

• Regulatory & Business Conduct:
o Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
o 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.
o Taking personal and team responsibility for achieving the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles.
o Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Governance: establish strong relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, while independently performing own duties.
• Risk management: provide guidance and support on legal and operational risk identification and management.
• Commercial: pragmatic, creative and solution-oriented with good judgment and decision-making skills.
• Proactive: able to use initiative and ready to identify issues without being asked.
• Flexible: able and willing to work long hours and, at short notice, travel to, and work in, challenging environments for periods of time (if required).
• Team player: personable, responsible, helpful.
• Organised: able to prioritise workload and manage conflicting priorities to meet deadlines. Strong attention to detail to highlight potential risks in contracts and errors.
• Reliable, tactful, discreet, diplomatic: able to work with staff across varying levels of seniority and from different nationalities and cultures.
• Self-motivated: able to operate independently with minimal supervision.
• Energetic: enthusiastic about the role, the function and the Group.

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 the function 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.

Key stakeholders
• Group CIB Legal
• Country CIB Legal

Skills and Experience

Microsoft Word

Powerpoint, Excel

Qualifications

• Degree in Law or a junior lawyer with 1-3 years’ experience
• Experience in a Legal environment
• Experience working in a global business / function
• Prior banking experience is welcome but not a pre-requisite

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 thingand 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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.