Job ID: 37664
Location: Singapore, SG
Area of interest: Legal
Job type: Fixed Term Worker
Work style: Office Working
Opening date: 26 Aug 2025

JOB SUMMARY

• The Bank is embarking on a Strategic Overhaul of Documentation Architecture SODA project focusing on the workflow redesign and standardisation of the Bank’s template variations that are used at various points throughout the client lifecycle.
• Given the scale and breadth of this strategic project, a role has arisen within Legal to support the Bank’s project objectives to build out its contract automation and digitisation capabilities.
• The SODA project will involve analysing existing documentation structures, identifying inefficiencies and redundancies, and creating a scalable, user friendly framework that supports both consistency and customisation across Products and Business.
• This is an exciting opportunity to drive operational efficiency, knowledge retention, and scalability across the Bank through strategic documentation redesign and implementation.

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

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead interaction with SODA Project Team and Key Stakeholders to deliver project objectives.
• Strong analytical and legal skills.
• Personal authority and integrity.
• Independence and resilience.
• An inquisitive approach to practices, procedures and process governance.
• Ability to lead, plan and manage projects within Legal function.
• Ability to coordinate across different businesses, functions and geographies.
• Ability to work with Excel is highly desirable.
• Many issues which arise in this role may not be legal issues but involve aspects of credit, market, event or operational risk. The candidate must be able to understand the nature of these risks and contribute to the processes that mitigate these risks.
• The role may require the candidate to make judgement decisions in which a balance must be struck between the interests of doing business and of protecting the Bank. Even though the candidate may not make this decision solely, he/she must be able to make a meaningful recommendation and to provide the decision maker with sufficient legal information to make an informed decision.
• The candidate must be able to adapt his/her approach to a range of legal systems which may differ considerably from the system he/she was trained in.

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Strong analytical and legal skills.
• Ability to work with Excel
• Willing to work in a fast-paced, dynamic and multi-disciplinary tea
• Lead interaction with SODA Project Team and Key Stakeholders to deliver project obje