Legal Counsel

Job ID: 37664

Location: Singapore, SG

Area of interest: Legal

Job type: Fixed Term Worker

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 26 Aug 2025

**Job Summary**
- The Bank is embarking on a Strategic Overhaul of Documentation Architecture SODA project focusing on the workflow redesign and standardisation of the Bank’s template variations that are used at various points throughout the client lifecycle.
- Given the scale and breadth of this strategic project, a role has arisen within Legal to support the Bank’s project objectives to build out its contract automation and digitisation capabilities.
- The SODA project will involve analysing existing documentation structures, identifying inefficiencies and redundancies, and creating a scalable, user friendly framework that supports both consistency and customisation across Products and Business.
- This is an exciting opportunity to drive operational efficiency, knowledge retention, and scalability across the Bank through strategic documentation redesign and implementation.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead interaction with SODA Project Team and Key Stakeholders to deliver project objectives.
- Strong analytical and legal skills.
- Personal authority and integrity.
- Independence and resilience.
- An inquisitive approach to practices, procedures and process governance.
- Ability to lead, plan and manage projects within Legal function.
- Ability to coordinate across different businesses, functions and geographies.
- Ability to work with Excel is highly desirable.

**Regulatory & Business Conduct**
- Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
- Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
- Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

**Other Responsibilities**
**Contract Automation**
- Conducting an audit of the current documentation template architecture to determine opportunities for streamlining and rationalisation of all Banking templates are in scope including BFL/SFL standard templates, security documents, ancillary documents such as Term Sheets, NDAs, Mandate Letters, Engagement Letters and standard Trade/Transaction Banking templates
- Lead the design phase of the new template workflow model in consultation with the platform vendor with a focus on developing a clause library
- Collaborate with cross functional teams such as Tech Architecture, CFCR, CRC/LDU, Operations and Product to build, develop and maintain a cohesive documentation design architecture
- Help to track, monitor and manage progress of the Legal workstream in the SODA project
- Assist with review of existing policies and procedures in relation to template management
- Oversee the integration of DocuSign and the Bank’s digital signature capabilities into the workflow solution
- Working with the vendor to build, develop and roll out a digitisation framework to enable meta data extraction using intuitive logic across lending and trade documentation including syndicated facilities
- Collaborate with CPM, CRC/LDU and Product teams to design a data model for meta data extraction
- Identify synergies between current meta data host platforms

**Skills and Experience**
- Bachelor Degree in Law from a reputable law school
- 5+ years of PQE
- Experience Prior experience at a top-tier law firm and/or in0house legal team, preferably in a financial services related industry
- Lead interaction with SODA Project Team and Key Stakeholders to deliver project objectives.
- Personal authority and integrity.
- Independence and resilience.
- An inquisitive approach to practices, procedures and process governance
- Attention to Detail
- Working with the vendor to build, develop and roll out a digitisation framework to enable meta data extraction using intuitive logic across lending and trade documentation including syndicated faciliti
- This is an Direct Contract role for 7 Months

**Role Specific Technical Competencies**
- Strong analytical and legal skills.
- Ability to work with Excel
- Willing to work in a fast-paced, dynamic and multi-disciplinary tea
- Lead interaction with SODA Project Team and Key Stakeholders to deliver project obje

**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