Job Title: Manager, Legal
Employer: Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc (part of Standard Bank Group)
Job ID: 12447
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Division Group: Legal
Position Category: Group Legal
Employment Type: Full Time – Permanent
Shift: Yes
Regulatory Approval: Yes
Job description: To manage legal risk by providing a comprehensive transactional legal advisory service to the Corporate & Investment Banking Division and such other units as may be identified from time to time.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
• Drafting and production of legal documentation
• Collation of all information required for the drafting of facilities letters, term loan letters, security document and other such documentation ("Legal Documentation").
• Accurate and comprehensive drafting of all legal documentation.
• Accurate and comprehensive drafting of non standard clauses and, where required, non standard loan agreements.
• Proactive identification, investigation and solution of legal issues presented from time to time.
• Provision of sound legal advice (whether informal or by formal written legal opinions) as requested from time to time.
• Provision of clear and simple explanations to legal issues presented.
• Scrutiny of signed Legal Documentation and condition precedents (including for audit purposes) to be beyond reproach.
• Conduct negotiations in a professional manner.
• Ensure drafting and formatting of Legal Documentation of a professional standard.
• Ensure adequate version control when drafting and circulating Legal Documentation.
General legal risk management:
• Adhere to delegated authority assigned from time to time.
• Adhere to the bank's established risk management processes and procedures.
• Maintain awareness of Group Legal requirements as contained in Group Reference Guides and communication in circulars from time to time
• Conduct legal research on issues relevant to legal risk management as identified from time to time.
• As appropriate, identify any new developments or current requirements in law which necessitate an improvement to the bank's standard legal documentation.
• Proactively identify legal risks arising in the transactional legal environment and resolve. Apprise line manager and assist with the development of processes to eradicate, mitigate, monitor and/or report on these risks.
• Resolve credit, legal and business concerns in a solution-orientated manner, which reflect an acceptable balance between the bank's commercial and legal interests;
• Ensure proper record keeping and version control (whether electronically or in hard copy).
• Ensure a Legal Documentation template library is kept and maintained.
• Compulsory attendance at pre-credit committee meetings and credit committee meetings.
• Ensure active and solution orientated participation in relation to legal matters arising.
• Input into credit application prior to credit signoff to ensure no reworking of the signed off credit application is required due to legal issues.
• Adhere to turnaround times stipulated in the legal tracker.
• Conscientiously update all relevant tracking tools including the corporate banking legal tracker.
• Monitor and report to business and credit on orange and deal deals.
• Timeous submission of legal tracker to head office function.
• Regular (at least every 2 weeks) meetings with stakeholders to resolve issues identified in tracker (such as orange and red deals – meetings to be documented and records of meetings kept.
• Pro-active development of relationships with credit and business with a view of credit and business approaching the legal manager for legal support prior to finalisation of credit applications.
• Co-ordinate credit, legal and business concerns in a solution-orientated manner to close deals.
• Constantly seek to provide an exceptional level of service to all internal clients of legal.
• Handle potential conflict situations firmly but tactfully.
• Articulate accountabilities, duties, standards and priorities to stakeholders in a clear manner.
• Ensure a consistently sound understanding and application of facility structures, bank products and general commercial and legal knowledge.
• Identify training and learning opportunities.
• Assume personal accountability for optimal performance.
• Assist in career planning for self.
• Assist line manager with any tasks/functions/projects which he/she may delegate.
• Assist in the training of new staff members.
• Assist with the timeous completion of projects providing regular feedback to line manager and stakeholders throughout project.
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