Legal & Regulatory Counsel recruitment
* Proactive management of legal and regulatory compliance risks for Wealth Management and Bancassurance businesses in Singapore.
* Act as a central point of reference for wealth management and bancassurance legal and compliance issues for country, Group, business and functional stakeholders.
* Effectively manage the process of engaging external counsel, including providing effective instructions to external counsel and negotiating appropriate fee structures for the transaction in question.
* Work with Group Wealth LC and Country LC functions to ensure that robust local product/provider diligence processes, product documentation and pre and post sales governance of Wealth Management products and services, in accordance with Group Wealth Management and Group Bancassurance standards, are properly embedded.
* As part of the products approval process, ensure material legal and regulatory risks are identified and appropriately mitigated.
* Develop appropriate forms of documentation for products and transactions in Singapore and, where required, support the creation of global standard documentation.
* Use technical knowledge of wealth management and bancassurance products to provide sound, technical product, legal, compliance and transactional advice to the business and to anticipate the impact of legal, regulatory and compliance developments on the business and communicate such impact to the business.
* Drive the development and maintenance of good relationships with internal and external business stakeholders at appropriate levels ensuring an open and cooperative environment.
* Provide legal advice, briefings, recommendations and reports on material legal and regulatory risks and issues to business, country and functional stakeholders.
* Proactive management support of legal and regulatory risks in selling Wealth Management and bancassurance products in Singapore .