Head of Global Trade Solutions Legal, Singapore

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If you’re looking for a career that will give you plenty of opportunities to develop, join HSBC and your future will be rich with potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

Global Legal plays an important role in protecting the Group’s reputation by helping to future-proof the organisation through robust legal risk and issue advisory. Responsible for providing comprehensive legal advice to senior management and all global businesses and functions, the team offers a diverse range of legal skills, jurisdictional experience and practice specialisms across all countries and territories in which our businesses operate.

We are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join our team as a** Head of Global Trade Solutions Legal, Singapore.**

**Principal Responsibilities**

The Singapore GTS business offers the following trade products (without limitation) across all customer segments (business banking to large corporates and multinationals) (collectively, “GTS Products”):

- Receivables Finance
- Supply Chain Finance
- Core Trade Finance (e.g. Bank Guarantee, LC and SBLC facilities)
- Structured Trade Finance, including:

- Commodity structured trade finance
- Asset-based lending
- ESG-related trade finance
- Risk Distribution and Participation

This role is required to support the Singapore GTS bankers on a range of transactional legal matters, GTS related projects and initiatives - as well as overall oversight of GTS activities from a legal risk management perspective on a day-to-day basis.

Responsibilities include:

- As the HSBC GTS Legal team lead: Providing expert legal advice, guidance and support to ensure that legal and reputational risks of the Singapore GTS business are proactively identified and mitigated
- Support and promote the strategic growth of the Singapore GTS business
- Coordinating and managing relationships between internal and external stakeholders, businesses and support functions
- Assisting with the preparation, negotiation and review of various legal documents including financing terms, confidentiality agreements (including consideration of conflicts of interest issues), engagement letters, mandates, pitch materials, term sheets, finance documents, legal opinions and other transactional documents and agreements
- Providing advice that is pragmatic and commercially sound (in addition to being legally sound) that is aligned with HSBC’s strategy and within HSBC’s risk parameters
- Collaborating with lawyers globally and regionally to promote consistency in approach
- Providing legal input on local, regional and / or global legal projects
- Promoting the adoption of best practice and documentation standards, including representing HSBC at industry associations (as required)
Requirements- Qualified trade finance lawyer, minimum of 15+ years PQE with at least 5 years + of solid transactional finance experience (preferably cross-border) and at least 8-10 years of trade finance experience
- Extensive knowledge of trade finance transactions and legal issues
- Ability to manage and advise internal and external stakeholders in a professional manner
- Understanding of cross-border financing documentation, market practices and processes
- Ability to prioritise and to work under time pressure
- Strong oral and written communication and inter-personal skills
- Lateral thinking/problem solving ability

**You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.**

Issued by The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited.