About the Role
At the company, the Legal team goes beyond traditional contracts and compliance. We focus on understanding the business, managing risk, and helping the Bank to advance with confidence. We are seeking an experienced legal professional who possesses critical thinking skills, can provide practical advice, and manage complex legal issues independently.
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Responsibilities
- Make the complex clear: Provide practical legal advice to business and operational teams on a wide range of legal matters.
- Protect what matters: Identify legal risks, assess their impact, and recommend effective solutions.
- Get contracts right: Review, draft, and negotiate contracts, agreements, and other legal documents.
- Keep us compliant: Ensure legal documents and activities meet UAE laws, banking regulations, corporate governance standards, and internal requirements.
- Support better decisions: Analyze legal and management information and present clear insights to support decision-making.
- Build strong partnerships: Collaborate closely with teams across the company as well as with external parties and legal advisers to achieve business objectives.
- Make legal work smarter: Identify opportunities to enhance legal processes, service quality, efficiency, and stakeholder experience.
- Help others grow: Mentor and support junior legal team members while promoting consistent, high-quality legal advice throughout the function.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in Law.
- At least five years of legal experience, preferably within banking, financial services, or another regulated environment.
- Strong knowledge of UAE laws, banking regulations, corporate governance, and legal risk management.
- Experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating contracts and legal documents.
- The ability to evaluate complex legal information, identify risks, and recommend practical solutions.
- Strong analytical, stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making skills.
- Membership of, or progress towards, a relevant professional legal body or qualification would be an advantage.
Benefits
- Opportunity to work in a dynamic environment that values legal insight and judgement.
- Be part of a team that helps shape better decisions by managing risk effectively.
- Chance to make a significant impact in your role.
