Senior Legal Counsel, Affluent Clients, GCNA

Job title: Senior Legal Counsel, Affluent Clients, GCNA

Company: Standard Chartered


Job description: About Standard CharteredWe’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

Job SummaryWe are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Legal Counsel to join our team, focusing on advising and supporting the Standard Chartered’s Affluent and Wealth Solutions (A&WS) businesses in Greater China and North Asia (GCNA), as well as the broader Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) business. The ideal candidate will utilize their legal expertise in regulatory, banking, and financial products to provide comprehensive legal guidance and support.Key Responsibilities

• Advise and support the A&WS businesses in GCNA and the WRB business more broadly, leveraging legal skills and experience in regulatory, banking, and financial products.
• Act as both a legal advisor and specialist as required, liaising with external counsel where necessary.
• Assess legal enforceability risk impacting the Bank.
• Provide independent legal advice and sound judgment to stakeholders while working as part of a closely knit team, ensuring legal best practices are adopted.
• Support Group and Country stakeholders on various projects and initiatives.
• Align with other Legal colleagues both in country and also other jurisdictions to ensure consistency of approach across the Bank.
• Perform other responsibilities as may be assigned.

Key stakeholdersInternal

• Global Head, Legal, WRB
• Country Legal teams supporting WRB
• CEO, Hong Kong
• Head, Private Banking, GCNA
• Conduct, Financial Crime and Compliance Advisory, GCNA
• Group Internal Audit, Operational Risk, COO, Operations, Finance

External

• Law firms and consultants
• External auditors

Skills and Experience

• Proven experience in a legal advisory role within the banking and financial services industry
• Strong knowledge of regulatory, banking, and financial products, particularly within the affluent wealth portfolios
• Ability to act as both a legal advisor and specialist for our businesses
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong stakeholder management experience across different jurisdictions
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience liaising with external counsels and partners

Qualifications

• Law Degree holder
• License holder to Practice Law within the respective jurisdictions
• 5 – 8 Years PQE

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.

Expected salary:

Location: Ma On Shan, Hong Kong

Job date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 07:57:50 GMT

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