Senior Regulatory Counsel | American Bank - APAC
- Recruiter
- Selby Jennings Singapore
- Location
- Hong Kong
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 12 Jan 2018
- Closes
- 24 Jan 2018
- Ref
- 2654932
- Sector
- Legal
- Contract type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
Top tier American Bank seeks Senior APAC Regulatory Legal Counsel to lead a new division in the bank based in Hong Kong. This is a new legal headcount due to their exceptional business performance and expansion plans and will work with existing legal and compliance teams. The role will be supporting regional APAC as a lead role and reporting into NYC.
Our ideal legal candidate for this Legal Counsel role should have at least 8 years of experience in Legal Counsel gained from leading law firms or in-house legal counsel. The Legal Counsel should have good experience of banking products and experience deal with regional regulators.
Key Roles and Responsibilities of the Senior Regulatory Counsel will include:
Selby Jennings is a Trading Style of Phaidon International (License number 16S8194)
Our ideal legal candidate for this Legal Counsel role should have at least 8 years of experience in Legal Counsel gained from leading law firms or in-house legal counsel. The Legal Counsel should have good experience of banking products and experience deal with regional regulators.
Key Roles and Responsibilities of the Senior Regulatory Counsel will include:
- Sound regional compliance and regulatory knowledge
- Understanding of general legal activities within a banking environment
- Liaising with senior business heads, legal and compliance team
- Provide comprehensive policy and regulatory advice and support in relation to all aspects of banking
- Develop and implement new regulatory initiatives to support global regulatory requirements
- Involvement with many internal functions to enable business and to mitigate and prevent legal and regulatory risks
- Involvement in various corporate exercises including liaising with internal and external parties
- Any ad hoc projects in the legal and regulatory counsel scope as required
- Qualified Legal Counsel with 8 years of PQE gained from leading law firms or in-house counsel
- Banking candidates preferred
- Sold experience dealing with senior business heads
- able to understand business decisions and think in a strategic manor
- Solid legal experience and understanding of the regulatory environment and the current law relating to the financial services industry
- A working knowledge of banking products and services
Selby Jennings is a Trading Style of Phaidon International (License number 16S8194)
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