Head, Legal & Corporate & Investment Banking, Client Coverage, Pakistan

Job Summary

Lead the management of Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) Client Coverage and country - related Legal matters across the Group's network in Pakistan, with overall responsibility for providing legal advice, guidance, and support to stakeholders across the Group on CIB Client Coverage and Pakistan related Legal matters, including products, and segments. CIB Client Coverage segments include Financial Institutions, Global Subsidiaries and Global Industries.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure the Pakistan Legal team considers the Group's strategy to identify and guide on key thematic, emerging, and regulatory legal risks that impact at an enterprise level.
• Act as a point of escalation for any material Legal issues in Pakistan by maintaining close relationships with stakeholders including the Pakistan CEO, as well as Function, Product and Business leads to provide them with relevant legal advice, guidance, and support.
• Follow the Group Management Responsibility Policy to ensure effective risk management and the implementation of proper controls across the Pakistan Legal team.
• Support and collaborate with other Heads of Legal to develop effective strategies for identifying horizon risks and strengthening relationships with regulators.
• Lead the Pakistan Legal team in providing all country, product, and Client Coverage segment legal advice to the business.
• Work with Product Legal Heads and other stakeholders to structure and define parameters for new products and initiatives and develop template legal documentation in Pakistan.
• Is accountable for, and has primary responsibility over, non-material third party disputes in areas in scope.
• Partner with other members of the Legal function and contribute (where appropriate and without duplication or overlap) to, complex Legal matters for which they do not have overarching responsibility or accountability.
• Is responsible (but not accountable for) non-material employment disputes/negotiations, business alliances and single-country supplier contracts in Pakistan.
• Is accountable for, and has primary responsibility over, managing Country Legal Panels in Pakistan.
• Maintain primary responsibility over logistical and operational matters arising in Pakistan which relate to the CIB Client Coverage Legal team.
• Work with Global Head Legal CIB Client Coverage and HR to endeavour to ensure that the Pakistan team is adequately resourced and staffed by an appropriate number of competent staff sufficiently independent to perform their duties objectively, support sustainable business growth and address relevant legal risks.
• Provide leadership, management and coaching to direct reports to enable them to be fully engaged and performing to their potential.
• Act as Process Owner for any processes owned by the function where such processes are executed within the Pakistan Legal team in accordance with the requirements of the Operational & Technology Risk Type Framework and associated policies and standards. This includes oversight for activities within these processes which are conducted by the businesses or other functions onshore or which are hubbed, Managed Service teams or where these are outsourced through 3rd party contracts.
• Participate in the functions Non-Financial Risk Committee as a committee member, and work with the Legal Risk and Policy Team on risk management issues across the Legal function.
• Represent Legal in the governance of CIB Client Coverage related issues by endeavouring to ensure that any papers which relate to CIB Client Coverage and Clusters related Legal matters being tabled at Board, Court, Group or Bank governance committees or CIB Client Coverage and Clusters business have been reviewed by the CIB Client Coverage and Clusters Legal team and clearly articulate the issues and legal risks involved.
• Manage the provision of reports to relevant Group and business risk and control committees and management groups on key CIB Client Coverage related legal risks and issues in Pakistan.
  
  

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.