Senior Legal Counsel- Egypt & Middle East-2200023402

Job Description

Senior Legal Counsel, Egypt & Middle East - (2200023402)Job: LegalPrimary Location: Africa & Middle East-United Arab Emirates-DubaiOther Locations: Africa & Middle East-Bahrain-ManamaSchedule: Full-timeEmployee Status: PermanentPosting Date: 21/Sep/2022, 6:10:09 AMUnposting Date: 22/Sep/2022, 10:59:00 PMStrategy

• Awareness and understanding of the Group?s regional and relevant country business strategy(ies) and ensuring their application by the Legal Function in relevant Middle East markets.
• Support and collaborate with the Head, Legal Middle East and other members of the Middle East Legal cluster to escalate legal risks, relevant operational risk events, significant, high risk, or complex litigation and to develop effective strategies for identifying legal horizon risks for relevant businesses and in collaboration with relevant business and risk stakeholders, strengthening relationships with regional regulators.
• Follow the Group Management Responsibility Policy to ensure effective risk management and the implementation of proper controls within the Middle East region and specifically with respect to the Group?s business in Egypt.
• Provide proactive advice to the Africa & Middle East (?AME?) Regional General Counsel, members of the AME Management Legal team and other relevant committees, on all legal and regulatory issues that have a significant impact on Egypt and other relevant jurisdictions in the Middle East, working with external counsel as appropriate (and seek to proactively identify such issues).

• Escalate product or legal issues, in particular where the PPG or relevant CA parameters or global minimum standards are breached.
• In collaboration with the regional client and products legal specialist teams in Dubai or Singapore, provide transactional support having regard to relevant PPG/CA parameters and, if applicable the Bank?s minimum standards and guidance for the relevant CF/TB/FM product (there will be no retail products for Egypt).
• Provide quality and effective legal advisory and transactional support having regard to the relevant PPG/CA parameters and, if applicable the Bank?s minimum standards and guidance for ?Core Banking? products i.e. account opening, basic cash and channels and traditional trade and trade related lending products.
• Reduce legal and/or client documentation execution blockages for deals originating in Egypt.
• Improve awareness, controls and efficiencies around cross border legal issues.
• Support businesses, credit, middle office teams and the Group Legal, template management team on documentation negotiation issues and the appropriateness of new Group templates for use in Egypt.
• Ensure that the use of any non-standard legal templates or supplementary legal templates are justified and streamlined before they are ready for use.
• Support product business teams across transactional matters/projects.
• Support middle office teams on documentation queries.

• Establish and maintain effective processes (including training, advice and support) to ensure that policies, procedures and standards addressing legal risk are effectively implemented.
• Act as or assist the Risk Owner for Legal Enforceability risks arising in Egypt and any other jurisdictions in the Middle East where Group business is undertaken and Legal are instructed to support, or country processes owned by Legal, as set out in the Group?s Risk Management Framework.

• Promote a culture and practice of compliance with legal standards (including conducting business within legal and regulatory requirements, with high ethical standards).
• Embed a ?Here for Good? culture and comply with the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from others and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

• Within the Group?s Enterprise Risk Management Framework, establish and maintain an appropriate risk-based approach to assessing, measuring, monitoring, manging and reporting Legal Enforceability risk arising in Egypt and across the Bank?s footprint in the Middle East.
• Act as the Process Owner for any Group or Country processes owned by Legal where such processes are executed in Egypt. Be responsible for: (i) the management of such processes in line with the Group?s process universe as set out in the Group?s Enterprise Risk Management Framework; and (ii) associated risks, including activities where the processes which are carried out by the businesses or other functions or which are hubbed or outsourced.
• Act as or assist the Risk Owner for Legal Enforceability risks arising in Egypt as set out in the Group?s Enterprise Risk Management Framework.
• Maintain an awareness and understanding of the top risks facing the Group and the role played in managing them.

• Awareness and understanding of the legal and regulatory framework, in which the Group operates and the regulatory requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
• Ensure that Legal is represented at various committees as may be appropriate.
• Endeavour to ensure that any papers being tabled by Legal at regional governance committees have been reviewed by the regional Legal team and clearly articulate the issues and legal risks involve

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