Counsel (Consumer)

The Counsel is an intermediate position responsible for managing a variety of day-to-day legal activities in coordination with the Legal team. The overall objective of this role is to provide legal support, advice and guidance across a broad range of practice areas within consumer part of Bank Handlowy.

Responsibilities:

• Work independently to provide legal advice related to products and processes in consumer part of Bank Handlowy

• Analyze documentation against regulatory requirements and internal policies to advise business accordingly

• Resolve problems, escalating to senior staff as needed

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Bank Handlowy, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of experience

• Valid Bar license to practice law

• Banking/financial industry experience or experience working at a large law firm

• Comprehensive knowledge of laws and practices regulating financial products offered to consumers

• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication

• Proven analytical and organizational skills

• Fluent English and Polish

Citi Handlowy offers:

• Job contract and social benefits (private medical care, fitness card, life insurance, pension programme, co-financing of cultural and entertainment events and more. Full list can be found here: www.karierawciti.pl under Benefits for you and Benefits for your loved ones sections)

• Access to e-learning platform (Degreed) as well as English learning platform

• Possibility to gain globally appreciated work experience

• Friendly and supportive culture and team

• Flexible and partly-remote working conditions

Your personal data will be administered by Bank Handlowy w Warszawie S.A. with its registered office in Warsaw, ul. Senatorska 16. The Bank carries out the processing of your personal data first of all to conduct the recruitment process in which you participate, i.e. in the scope specified in Article 22(1) of the Labour Code (Article 6(1)(c)  of the GDPR). You are entitled to: access your personal data, rectify them, erase them, restrict their processing, transfer your data and object to their processing. More detailed information is available at the website: BankHandlowyPolandPrivacyNotice

Please read the information about internal reports procedure – Whistleblowers Protection Act: BankHandlowyPolandWhistleblowersProtectionAct

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