Legal counsel at Standard Chartered Bank - Tanzania

•To manage, on behalf of Country Head of Legal & Compliance, the relationship between Country Legal and the WB business and WB support Units – Origination Client Coverage, Financial Markets, Trade Services, Credit, Group Special Assets and Credit Documentation Unit.
•To support the Here For Good, provide an efficient and effective service which is of high quality for the WB and other Units and ensure the processes and controls are proactively improved to meet customer needs.
•To lead in the proactive and strategic identification of material legal risks in WB business, including those related to existing products and those under development, and customer segments. 
•To support and facilitate internal product development through the new products approval process by engaging proactively with the business and engaging in the review and approval of the product’s Country Addendum as part of the global new products approval process to ensure that material legal risks are managed at country level.
•To provide legal advice, briefings, recommendations and reports on material legal risks and issues to WB, country and functional stakeholders. 

Key Roles & Responsibilities

•To ensure that adequate controls for legal risk management are in place and train stakeholders on the various policies as appropriate.
•Provide timely legal advice, briefings and recommendations on key issues to stakeholders.
•Working with Credit Documentation Unit, review all non standard credit and other legal documentation for completeness, clarity and ensure that all legal risks are adequately covered.
•Contribute to Team Legal’s risk governance through providing country perspective on legal risk policies and procedures and helping to ensure consistency in the country’s approach to legal risk management.
•Working together with the Country Head of Legal & Compliance, ensure adequacy of appropriate in- country team resources, skills and capabilities to support business growth and address all legal risks.
•Working with Country Head of Legal & Compliance, implement consistent Team Legal objectives, priorities across the team, ensuring alignment with the global team legal agenda and policies.
•Ensure that external legal engagements are coordinated and effective and provide support for panel arrangements when required.
•Raise awareness of, and address existing and emerging legal risks and issues within the wider business area of responsibility through specific legal training.
•Work with Country Head of Legal & Compliance to ensure coverage of all legal work which is not specifically aligned to one business, such as, non material disputes, HR legal issues, commercial contracts, acquisitions and legal projects undertaken at country level.
•Promote active cooperation between the business legal teams to encourage a collegiate working environment across the businesses.
Effectively manage the process of engaging external counsel, including providing effective instructions to external counsel and negotiating appropriate fee structures for the transaction / case in question.
•Use technical knowledge of all business products undertaken in the Country to provide sound, technical, product, legal and transactional advice to the business and to anticipate the impact of legal developments on the business and communicate such impact to the business.
•With Country Head of Legal & Compliance, drive the development and maintenance of good relationships with internal and external business stakeholders at appropriate levels ensuring an open and cooperative environment.
•Exercise Bank’s Power of Attorney (POA) within the confines of credit related transactions and any other necessary execution for normal banking operations. 
•Ensure creation and maintenance of a compliance culture, attend BORC and other key WB meetings.
•Attend to all other WB and general legal matters as may arise or as assigned by Country Head of Legal & Compliance.
•Support the Bank’s ‘Seeing is Believing’ initiative and engage in regular participation of community projects to enhance the Bank’s profile on corporate social responsibility. 

Qualifications & Skills

•Law Degree from accredited learning institution.
•Good experience in handling general legal matters. 

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