Job Overview: The Manager, Legal is responsible for overseeing the effective and timely management of the Bank’s legal unit. This role includes reviewing and analyzing new laws and regulations to ensure legal compliance, drafting and reviewing agreements and contracts, and identifying and mitigating legal risks. The Manager also provides clear and practical legal opinions and guidance to internal stakeholders across the Bank, supporting business decisions while ensuring alignment with applicable laws and regulatory requirements. This position plays a key role in safeguarding the Bank’s legal interests and ensuring a robust legal framework is in place.

Responsibilities

• Staying up to date with new laws and regulations;
• Ensuring new updated laws and regulations are properly analysed with impacts and timely shared to related stakeholders for further actions,
• Performing final reviews on the Agreements and/or MoUs and escalating within the team as well as performing initial review or draft the Agreements and/or MoUs as delegated by the supervisor,
• Handling legal risks both internal and external except the issues related to regulators,
• Ensuring letters to be submitted to regulators are properly and timely drafted for submission to supervisor to review and finalize,
• Ensuring all agreements have been recorded and monitored with the status of extension or renewal following the timeline set in the checklist by the team,
• Joining the customer complaints handling as indicates in the Policy of Complaint Handling of the Bank,
• Providing legal advice and opinions to related management team and stakeholders based on the regulatory ground and best practice,
• Managing the court cases against the Bank,
• Ensuring company registration checklists are up to date and timely and appropriately register/update with relevant authorities (NBC, MOC, GDT, …etc.)
• Ensuring regulatory obligations are appropriately and timely handled,
• Reviewing reports submitted by the team for ensuring the consistency, accuracy and legality of the information prior submission to the supervisor for further review and finalization,
• Timely drafting legal report for supervisor and manager for reporting to management, committee, and the Board (Monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, and annually),
• Perform other assigned tasks required by line manager.

Requirement

• At least bachelor degree in law and/or related fields. A master’s degree is preferred.
• At least 5 years experience in Legal, especially from banking sector;
• Strong background on law and regulations in banking sector, corporate law;
• Having good critical thinking skills;
• Excellent critical thinking, interpersonal, problem solving and communication skills;
• Being able to understand the business activities of the Bank;
• Capable to work effectively within the team and cross-functional teams including IT, Risk, Accounting and Finance, Retail Banking, and operations.
• Proficiency English knowledge including written and verbal communication,;
• Being responsive, well cooperate, and having strong commitment;
• Good Microsoft Office skills;
• Willing to workhard to meet the timeline,
• Perform ad-hoc tasks as require by management team.