Description
Job ID: 43797
Location:
Island, Lagos
Job Sector: Banking
Reports To: The Head, Corporate & Investment Banking Legal
Job Details
Legal: guidance across all areas and geographies to ensure: every transaction is appropriately negotiated, documented and implemented, losses arising from litigation are minimised, and legal issues carrying negative reputational consequences are avoided.
Job Purpose
Working closely with other Corporate & Investment Banking (“CIB”) Lawyers, the job holder will provide legal, regulatory, reputational and transactional advice and support in relation to the Client Coverage, Investment Banking, Global Markets and Transactional Products and services activities of Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC and Stanbic IBTC Capital Limited (together “Stanbic IBTC”), with the objective of assisting the business leaders of those businesses in achieving their business goals in a manner consistent with sound risk management.
Partnering with the CIB embedded Legal teams in the Africa Regions countries and Johannesburg and the CIB Legal team Africa Regions to ensure an aligned and consistent level of service to the business.
Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities
Provide legal support to the client coverage, investment banking, global markets and transactional products and services businesses
Working closely with / and supporting the other CIB Lawyers, Head, Corporate & Investment Banking Legal and Head, Country Legal Services to provide the client coverage, investment banking, global markets and transactional products and services businesses with appropriate legal support.
Being a trusted, solution-driven legal advisor and value-added partner to the client coverage, investment banking, global markets and transactional products and services businesses by providing timely, commercial and judgment-based legal advice, input and oversight. This facilitates informed, risk-based decision-making by the front office stakeholders in their activities and seamless coordination and implementation of deals;
Engaging and working closely with external legal counsel as and when required and ensuring their accountability, cost efficiency and competitiveness and excellence in expertise and service delivery.
Working closely with other CIB Lawyers to identify legal risks, providing actionable, solution-orientated advice to mitigate those risks, reporting incidents of non-compliance as necessary and ensuring risks are properly understood and mitigated;
Where appropriate, drafting legal documentation;
Manage all legal implementation of transactions.
Develop and maintain strong and lasting relationships with various stakeholders across the organisation.
Proactively develop and manage strong working relationships with front office staff and across business units.
Build and maintain strong networks of internal clients and external parties.
Engaging and working collaboratively with deal team members in cross border and multi jurisdictions to develop a harmonised approach to common issues and policies;
Gain confidence of credit and other committees as a trusted legal adviser.
Work within the CIB Legal team but independently on transactions.
Build relationships with external counsel and other members of the CIB Legal team.
Handle difficult situations tactfully and diplomatically.
Preferred Qualifications and Experience
LLB Law Degree
BL Degree with at least 5 years post qualification experience with a solid technical grounding in corporate and commercial law, capital markets, banking and finance, corporate banking, syndicated loans, corporate finance and derivatives.
Has sound technical understanding of Nigerian law and experience in corporate and commercial law, capital markets, banking and finance, corporate banking, capital raising, syndicated loans, corporate finance and derivatives and ability to translate and apply this knowledge to optimise the Corporate and Investment Banking relationship.
Knowledge and awareness of the legal and regulatory frameworks in Nigeria governing various aspects of corporate and investment banking;
Risk Management - Understands and manages strategic and operational risk within the relevant legal agreements, including understanding and conforming to the relevant processes and procedures within Legal (Risk) and all the CIB areas.
Competencies required in delivering accurate and relevant results and assessing risk including attention to detail, delivery of accurate and relevant research, proactivity and timeous delivery of requirements, ownership of problems, understanding of impact of non-delivery and sub-standard performance.
Strong commercial awareness, analytical abilities and problem- solving skills sufficient to maximise the solutions available within a given regulatory and legal context;
Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively apply verbal, nonverbal and written communication methods to achieve desired results using a flexible interpersonal style. Demonstrates a sophisticated level of front line negotiation skills and professionalism in dealing with others.
Influential skills sufficient to shape the decision-making process in situations where there may be a natural resistance to the advice.
Strong work ethic
Financial literacy (basic understanding of finance and financial terminology and concepts)
Knowledge / Technical Skills / Expertise
Technical Competencies:
Legal Drafting
Legal knowledge
Legal compliance
Financial industry regulatory framework
Written and verbal communication
Risk awareness
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Job ID: 46144
Location:
Island, Lagos
Job Sector: Banking
Job Details
Information Technology: systems development, business analysis, architecture, project management, data warehousing, infrastructure, maintenance and production.
Job Purpose
To be part of the Information security team, interfacing with projects, technical leads, and other members of the technical architecture team
To ensure that incoming and existing systems and services meet the best cyber security standards. This will involve setting security requirements and baselines, evaluating design proposals, working with other technical leads (internal and external) to mitigate risk
Be a point of contact for cyber security advice within the cyber team for stakeholders throughout Stanbic IBTC.
Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities
Key Responsibilities:
Holds ownership and responsibility for the cyber security area of Stanbic IBTC digital architecture, providing technical leadership for on-going development of digital solutions; works with internal and external stakeholders, assisting projects and programmes by coordinating the cyber security architecture, requirements, design and implementation thereby ensuring consistency and compliance with relevant architectural principles, policies and standards.
Design, build and document evaluated architectural options for solutions in response to business requirements (including risks, costs, implications, opportunities, etc).
Acts as a cyber security technical lead in product and vendor selection providing the security evaluation of products, options and responses to tenders.
Enhances security team accomplishments and competence by planning delivery of solutions; answering technical and procedural questions for less experienced team members; teaching improved processes; mentoring team members.
Determines security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements; researching information security standards; conducting system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments; studying architecture/platform; identifying integration issues; preparing cost estimates.
Participates in investigation, evaluation, selection and documentation of new approaches, methods and technologies, conducting research and providing documented and evaluated architectural options to meet requirements.
Builds strong relationships and communication channels with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure that all relevant areas of the business are represented in the design of solutions within the area of responsibility.
Selects appropriate cyber security design and documentation standards in consultation with internal stakeholders and ensures that the documentation of existing architecture is maintained and accessible to all interested parties.
Preferred Qualification and Experience
Experience:
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Minimum of 8 years experience in IT Security / Communication or Network
Good network experience
Strong customer focus and ability to manage client expectations
Proven ability to work under stress in emergencies; flexibility to handle pressure coming from all directions simultaneously
Strong team-orientated interpersonal skills; ability to effectively interface with a wide variety of people at all levels
Self-motivated and able to work under little supervision.
Good communication skills.
Ability to interact with users at all levels.
Must be service orientated
Knowledge / Technical Skills / Expertise
Knowledge:
First degree in Science related courses
SABSA, CISSP, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, etc would be beneficial
Experience with AWS and Microsoft Enterprise, Mobility & Security Suite.
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