Legal & Corporate Secretary Assistant Vice President

Hiring manager to edit here. Is the next step in your career at SMBC Group EMEA. We are looking for a Legal Counsel for our STPD-Legal Dept in Dubai to join our team. The Middle East region requires a progressive, commercially aware and forward‑thinking junior‑level legal professional to advise its front office support and control teams across the Middle East & Africa on the legal risks relating to our business and conduct in the region.

The role and responsibilities include providing proactive in‑depth, commercially focused advice and guidance to internal stakeholders across the SMBC Middle East & Africa region in line with our risk appetite. The role will have responsibility for advising on regional and global commercial contracts, data privacy, banking product and commercial template creation, front office deal support, regional legal updates, guides, support with bank internal projects, initiatives and process implementation and will role model the sta...