Specialist Legal Counsel(Germany, Poland, France)

Job ID: 41929

Location: Frankfurt, DE

Area of interest: Operations

Job type: Fixed Term Worker

Work style: Hybrid Working

Opening date: 15 Oct 2025

Job Summary

We are seeking a Specialist Legal Counsel to provide dedicated legal support to SCB AG and the wider organization as part of the "Article 21c CRD VI Project". This role offers a unique opportunity to work on a high-profile strategic initiative, supporting the bank's transition and alignment with new regulatory requirements.

The successful candidate will play a key role in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex legal documentation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and delivering practical, risk-aware advice that supports SCB AG's business objectives. Working closely with internal stakeholders, project teams, and external counsel, you will help ensure timely and compliant project execution within the bank's governance and policy frameworks.

This is a fixed-term position established specifically for the duration of the project (12 months).

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate contractual documentation related to the transfer of in-scope Transaction Banking (TB), Global Banking (GB), and Client Coverage (CC) facilities to SCB AG.
• Develop and maintain standard-form documentation and guidance materials to ensure they remain compliant under applicable laws and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitate legal documentation in accordance with product governance requirements and SCB AG policies — including credit and trade terms, facility letters, and related transactional agreements.
• Provide expert legal advice and guidance to TB, GB, CC, and related business units, ensuring appropriate risk mitigation and adherence to approved documentation standards.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on structuring bespoke transactions and managing re-papering initiatives.
• Negotiate directly with clients and counterparties, articulating contractual positions clearly and professionally.
• Build strong partnerships with business, credit, and legal stakeholders across SCB AG and other entities within SCB, representing Legal in working groups and key project forums.
• Support the Local Product Programme (LPPG) to ensure documentation and legal risks are appropriately managed.

Skills and Experience

• Qualified legal professional with a minimum of 5 years' experience in the banking or financial services sector, or 2+ years in a law firm specializing in banking or financial services.
• Proven expertise in lending, transaction banking, or trade finance.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills, with demonstrated ability to handle complex commercial agreements.
• Excellent understanding of the European legal and regulatory framework, as well as cross-border banking considerations.
• Experience in providing strategic legal input into major projects or regulatory transitions.
• Ability to interpret complex legal issues, communicate them clearly to non-legal audiences, and offer practical, business-focused solutions.
• Fluent English (spoken and written) is essential; German proficiency is advantageous.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to engage directly with senior management and external partners.

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 unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.