Legal Counsel (Trust Banking Group)

Responsibilities
Provides legal and regulatory advice in the Group's conduct of its fiduciary business activities and helps determine or assess the risks that should be considered in making business decisions.
Coordinates with the Bank's Legal Services Division and external counsels on the status of cases and the strategies to be taken relative to such cases.
Prepares or reviews contracts, agreements, and other correspondences with clients, counterparties, and other service providers.
Policy Management
Develops, reviews, and amends TBG's operating policies, procedures, forms, and agreements and communicates any changes across all concerned stakeholders.
Maintains and updates TBG's policies and procedures repository as necessary.
Maintains TBG's Manual of Policies and Procedures and serves as a clearing house for any review and revisions of policies and procedures.
Prepares and conducts educational campaigns on Trust regulations, policies, and procedures.
Assists in providing active advisory service pertaining to BSP rules and regulations on Trust and Other Fiduciary Activities including those of other regulatory bodies, and internal policies and procedures governing TBG activities.
Internal and External Audits
Handles the coordination and centralized submission of data/information requirements to regulatory bodies and internal control units.
Assists in the crafting and consolidating internal and regulatory audit replies.
Monitors reasons for failed audit/examination ratings, recurring audit findings/exceptions, and process/procedural lapses; and tracks corrective actions, directives, and deliverables.
Qualifications
With at least 3 years of experience as a Lawyer.
Can work with minimal supervision.
Preferably with Tax and Trust background.

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