Senior Legal Advisor

The National Commercial Bank (NCB)

Riyadh, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Ref: GP184-61

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

To oversee and manage all research and advisory needs for a specific business area with responsibility for several government institutions to collect, interpret and distribute new laws and regulations while educating the bank on existing and new laws and regulations.

Summary of essential job functions:
- Respond to all branch issues and questions
- Provide legal advice and draft documents for all Bank business units
- Keep bank abreast of all new legal issues and its implications on the bank and/or its businesses
- Offer advice on how to best avoid costly and high risk litigation
- Resolve or deal with customer/government legal complaints or enquiries referred by business units and offer advice on how to avoid costly and high risk litigation
- Participate in creating policy and procedures to protect the bank and its information and control the flow of information to ensure confidentiality.
- Deliver legal sessions to educate business units on existing or latest law concepts and interpretations
- Ensure that the legal advice and research adhere to and comply with the banks policies & procedure and local & international regulation
- Maintain quality and timely delivery of response to received legal requests
- Keep self and the staff up-to-date on all changing laws, regulations and procedures in all courts and committees.
- Attract, train and retain talented lawyers
- Agree performance goals and targets with direct reports and coach them for delivery of expected results.

Requirements

EDUCATION & KNOWLEDGE
- Law Degree
- Knowledge of local laws

EXPERIENCE
- 10 years of experience in legal practices which includes at least 5 years in banking legal activities
- Commercial awareness of local & international market current situations
- Exposed to management concepts and definitions especially in corporate resource management

SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES
- People management skills
- Interpersonal skills, related with wide range of people
- Analytical skills
- Editing and drafting skills
- PC literate
- Bilingual (Arabic, English)
- Able to work quickly and accurately
- A good team player
- Pays attention to detail
- Able to create innovative solution
- Dynamic, hard working and with stamina

About the Company

Formed in 1953, the National Commercial Bank was the first bank to be established in Saudi Arabia and is the largest Bank in terms of capital, not only in Saudi Arabia but also in the Middle East. In addition to 248 branches in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the bank also operates 2 international branches in Beirut and Bahrain, and 4 representative offices in London, Seoul, Tokyo, and Singapore.

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