Role at a glance
- Salary
- Not Disclosed
- Location
- Ciudad De Mexico Distrito Federal Mexico
- Work arrangement
- Hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience
- 2-5 years of relevant experience
- Education
- Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
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Role Summary
The Deputy Counsel provides legal support and advice across assigned practice areas and coordinates litigation and other legal matters. The role works with internal departments and external law firms to manage legal risks and respond to judicial and regulatory requirements.
What You'll Do
- Provide legal advice for a practice area within a product, country, or business.
- Coordinate litigation strategy, track case files, analyze legal risks, and handle judicial and regulatory requests in collaboration with...
- Analyze documents against regulatory requirements and internal policies, and prepare strategic recommendations and other documents for...
- Supervise external counsel, resolve issues, and escalate matters as needed.
- Assess risk in business decisions, support compliance with applicable laws and policies, and escalate, manage, and report control issues.
- Evaluate employee performance and make recommendations regarding pay increases, promotions, and terminations.
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View full postingQualifications
Relevant experience; a bachelor's/university degree or equivalent experience; professional attorney license; experience in civil and commercial litigation; knowledge of banking regulation and electronic-banking trials; ability to handle judicial and regulatory requests, manage multiple matters and deadlines, and communicate clearly in writing and verbally; analytical and organizational skills.
Preferred
- Juris Doctorate
- Relevant experience preferably from another bank or law firm
- Experience in legal risk analysis within electronic banking (desirable)
- Intermediate English (desirable)
Original job description
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Original job description
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The Deputy 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.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate employee performance and provide recommendations for pay increases, promotions, terminations, etc.
- Supervise external counsel and resolve issues, escalating to manager as needed
- Provide legal advice in one area of practice within a product, country or business
- Analyze documentation against regulatory requirements and internal policies to advise business accordingly
- Produce internal and external documents containing strategic recommendations with respect to matters managed for senior attorneys/country counsel review
- Execute tasks that support the fulfillment of the Firm's overall obligations and responsibilities
- Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, 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:
- 2-5 years of relevant experience
- Juris Doctorate preferred
- Relevant experience preferably from another bank or law firm
- Comprehensive knowledge of local, state and federal laws and practices
- Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication
- Proven analytical and organizational skills
Education:
- Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
La posición implica la estrategia y coordinación del litigio, seguimiento de expedientes, análisis de riesgos legales, atención de requerimientos judiciales y regulatorios, así como la interacción constante con áreas internas principalmente (operaciones, tecnología, riesgos) y despachos externos, asegurando una defensa consistente y alineada con la normativa aplicable y los criterios judiciales vigentes.
Perfil Ideal:
Abogado (a) con Cédula Profesional.
Experiencia indispensable en la función de litigio preferible en bancos, instituciones financieras o firma de abogados. Experiencia en analisis de riesgos legales dentro de Banca electrónica (deseable)
Demostrable conocimiento en: La atención de requerimientos judiciales y regulatorios, comunicación con áreas internas y gestión de despachos.
Inglés Intermedio (Deseable)
Demostrar de manera constante una comunicación escrita y verbal clara y concisa.
Habilidades comprobadas de organización y análisis.
Indispensable experiencia en litigio mercantil y civil.
Conocimiento en regulación bancaria y juicios de banca electrónica.
Indispensable administración de tiempo y términos.
Indispensable manejar múltiples asuntos de manera simultánea.
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