VP AVP Business Legal and Compliance Institutional Banking Group and Global Transaction Services
DBS Bank Ltd is a Singapore-based bank providing personal, SME, corporate, institutional, wealth management, financial markets, and digital banking services. Its clients include consumers, small and medium-sized businesses, corporations, and institutional customers.
About DBS Bank Ltd
DBS Bank Ltd provides banking products and services including accounts, cards, insurance, loans, investments, digital banking, payments, trade finance, foreign exchange, commodities, investment solutions, and derivatives clearing. Through its SME business, it supports businesses with financing, cash-flow management, online banking through DBS IDEAL, sustainability programmes, and business-growth initiatives. The bank serves personal customers, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients, and wealth-management customers across its regional markets.
Skills
About the Role
You will provide legal support for transaction banking activities, assess transaction and initiative risks, advise on laws and regulations, and draft and negotiate documentation. You will support cross-border structures, templates, legal-risk processes, investigations, litigation, external counsel management, projects, and regulatory-risk management.
Requirements
- Hong Kong legal qualification
- At least 5 years of post-qualification experience
- Trade finance
- Open account trade finance
- Main trade finance
- Drafting
- Negotiation
- Banking law
- Securities law
- Financial services law
- English
- Chinese
Responsibilities
- Provide legal support and manage legal risks for Global Transaction Services activities
- Assess risks in transactions, structures, and new initiatives
- Monitor and advise on laws and regulations
- Structure, draft, review, negotiate, and revise customer-facing and interbank documentation
- Support bespoke cross-border transaction structures
- Develop and maintain standard documentation templates
- Develop legal-risk guidelines and processes
- Assist with investigations, mediation, and complaints
- Manage key litigation
- Manage relationships with external law firms
- Advise on Global Transaction Services projects and initiatives
- Work with Compliance to manage regulatory risks