Senior Officer, Legal Counsel (40000542)

Job Purpose

Key Accountabilities (1)

• Manage litigation activities
  1. Participating in legal proceedings to protect the interests of the bank and its employees in non‑business parts, not related to litigation and disputes over credit contracts and security contracts;
  2. Representing the bank in settling disputes with related parties;
  3. Supporting legal experts in complex cases that require many people to participate in the resolution;
  4. Performing other tasks at the request of senior leaders to ensure full implementation of responsibilities and objectives in the performance of assigned tasks.
• Legal advice on management
  1. General advice and support on legal regulations related to TCB's business and administration activities (Non‑Business segment) in order to effectively manage risks and lead business and administration activities;
  2. Consulting to identify, provide solutions to handle legal risks, handle reputational and physical risks for TCB in corporate governance activities:
     • Board of Directors, Supervisory Board, CEO, BOM, Internal Audit, organizational structure, charter, authorization, Human resources, labor, salary, benefits, labor discipline;
     • Finance, tax, accounting;
     • IT, technology systems, technology infrastructure, information security;
     • System operation: Asset management, seals, records, archives;
     • Branch operation: organization, network operation, seals, representatives, licenses, vaults, ATMs, transportation of money, assets, etc.;
     • Marketing, advertising, signboard activities;
     • Contracts for centralized and non‑centralized procurement of goods and outsourced services of the whole goods;
     • Insurance for operational risks of TCB;
  3. Participating in consulting, drafting and legally controlling contracts and transactions between TCB and domestic and foreign partners within the scope of functions and duties (for non‑business areas mentioned in Section 1, 2 above);
  4. Controlling the status, evaluating recommendations and reporting to the Legal Director on the list of legal risks in banking activities;
  5. Risk management of the entire legal consulting work: periodical inspection, professional exchange meetings with business legal departments; submit the legal advice to the Director for the final opinion in case there are different opinions between the business legal departments;
  6. Advising and submitting to the top management for approval on the selection of a law firm to provide services to TCB;
  7. Consulting and submitting to the leadership for approval of cooperation with notary offices; managing the cooperation with notary offices;
  8. Performing other tasks at the request of leaders/Senior experts/CVPL specialists to ensure full implementation of responsibilities and objectives in the performance of assigned tasks.

Key Accountabilities (2)

• Project legal advice – Responsible for independent consulting on the field of work he is in charge of, including the following areas:
  1. Consulting, providing legal support, drafting and negotiating contracts and forms related to the general strategy of the whole company within the scope of the common project of the whole company;
  2. Consulting, drafting contracts for procurement of capital construction investment, contracts for purchasing technology software in the field of IT, cooperation contracts between TCB and partners in general operations of the whole goods;
  3. Consulting to identify, provide solutions to handle legal risks, handle reputational and physical risks for TCB in project legal consulting activities;
  4. Summarizing and reporting to the Project's Legal Consulting Director on the list of legal risks in banking activities in the activities for which he is responsible for consulting;
  5. Performing other tasks at the request of the leader to ensure full implementation of responsibilities and objectives in the performance of assigned tasks.

Key Accountabilities (3)

• Consulting for business units
  1. Directly advise and give independent legal opinions to business blocks and related units on the impact of legal regulations related to retail financial product and service solutions in order to ensure the objective of conducting business activities in accordance with the law, maximum protection of the bank's legitimate rights and interests; support staff in the Strategic Planning segment, LVKT to access in‑depth knowledge of the area of expertise to understand the needs and opportunities for Strategic Plans and LVEF; coordinating with staff in the strategic planning and engineering segments in formulating, designing and negotiating overall solutions to meet the needs of the strategic plan and value chain; consulting, participating in solving problems arising in the professional field for strategic plans and customers of key economic zones;
  2. Review legal policies and the implementation of legal policies to ensure compliance with regulations on banking activities and laws.
  3. Synthesize external legal documents, notify policy makers to update when there is a change in legal regulations, ensuring that the bank's regulations are properly applied according to the guidelines and regulations and the bank's communication/notice.
  4. Participate in drafting legal documents at the request of the Board of Directors and business units.
  5. Participating in drafting and legally controlling contracts and transactions with domestic and foreign partners within the scope of functions and tasks of the unit.
  6. Participating in research, organizing the implementation of initiatives and projects to contribute to the implementation of the strategy of the Emergency Management Division; consulting, supporting, coordinating with internal and external departments in researching, analyzing and organizing the implementation of initiatives to contribute to the implementation of TCB's strategy.
  7. Participate in the pre‑litigation stage for business transactions to protect the interests of the bank and its employees.
  8. Conduct training of relevant departments on legal issues.
  9. Strictly complying with the Bank's Labor Regulations; perform work in accordance with policies, regulations, procedures, internal guidelines... and service quality commitments (SLAs); perform other related tasks at the request of the direct managing director.

Key Relationships – Direct Manager

Key Relationships – Direct Reports

Key Relationships – Internal Stakeholders

Key Relationships – External Stakeholders

Success Profile – Qualification and Experiences

• Degree: Having a license to practice law.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of legal work; in which at least 4 years of legal work in the field of finance and banking or 4 years of being assigned to be in charge of in‑depth legal work at leading law firms or 3 years of working in litigation with a lawyer, or 3 years working in the court industry as an examiner, judge, (iii) Having good litigation, resolution and dispute resolution skills.
• Foreign language (English): As requirement from TCB time to time.