Lawyer for International Branches Legal Advisory

• Degree in Law. Having completed postgraduate studies or a specialized master's degree related to the subject will be valued.
• Minimum of 3-4 years of work experience preferably developed in law firms in the areas of commercial, financial, and/or banking regulation.
• Proficiency in technical-legal English. A second foreign language will be valued.
• Knowledge/experience in project management (Project Management), coordination, and monitoring functions.
• International experience or experience in international environments/cultural diversity will be valued.
• Advanced knowledge of office automation.

CaixaBank is a socially responsible financial group with a long-term vision, based on quality, proximity, and specialization. It offers a value proposition of products and services tailored to each segment, assuming innovation as a strategic challenge and a differentiating trait of its culture. Its leading position in retail banking in Spain and Portugal allows it to play a key role in contributing to sustainable economic growth.

In this way, in this position, the following responsibilities will be assumed:

• Review, drafting, and negotiation of all types of contractual documentation relating to financial products and services of all kinds.
• Legal advice to the Product area in Central Services in the design and creation of products, as well as in their local implementation, including legal support in relevant or novel operations.
• Likewise, preparation and advice on the legal/regulatory part of the international branch product dossiers to be completed as part of the bank's new product approval process.
• Providing answers to legal and regulatory inquiries that may be raised by the different areas, whether from International Banking, the international branches and/or the representative offices, or from other areas of the bank, mainly Compliance, Operations, Control, Business Control, Risk Management Function, Audit, Accounting, Product, Business.
• Legal review of the bank's internal regulations and policies (governance framework) for their implementation in international branches and representative offices, coordination and homogenization for this purpose with local lawyers and international branch teams to comply with all applicable local requirements.
• Preparation of legal reports of all kinds.
• Coordination, monitoring, and support to local lawyers in all types of legal and regulatory matters.
• Implementing, monitoring, and reporting on the legal and regulatory risk controls of the international branches from the first line of defense.
• Carrying out, managing, and providing legal support in cross-functional multi-jurisdictional projects.
• Identification, monitoring, and remediation of GAPs, action plans, and Compliance and Audit recommendations relating to the legal function in international branches, as well as providing legal support in those relating to other functions but affecting International branches.
• Monitoring, coordination, and implementation of regulatory updates (Regulatory Watch) in coordination with the corresponding Central Services area for their implementation in the international branches.
• Hiring, management, and coordination of external legal advisors for specific services or projects.
• Advice on Spanish law matters arising in relation to the operations of the international branches, or contracts under Spanish law entered into by the international branches.

Function: Lawyer to provide legal advice and perform coordination, support, and project management functions in the International Branches & Regulatory Legal Department area. The area team is composed of local lawyers from the jurisdictions where the bank's international branches are located and Spanish lawyers located in the bank's Central Services in Barcelona.

Location: Barcelona.

The International Branches & Regulatory Legal Department is part of the Corporate M&A and Tax Legal Advisory area, and its main task is to provide legal and regulatory advice to the bank in relation to the activity carried out by the international branches and representative offices. Specifically, the International Branches & Regulatory Legal Department in Central Services is responsible for advising, coordinating, and providing support on legal and regulatory matters to the international branches and representative offices, monitoring and managing multi-jurisdictional projects that may affect one or the other, implementing corporate requirements at the local level of each international branch, as well as homogenizing the bank's criteria and requirements among the different jurisdictions where the international branches are located and Spain.

Currently, the bank has 6 international branches located in the UK, Germany, France, Poland, Morocco, and Italy, which operate exclusively with CIB segment clients. The international branches have local lawyers responsible for the first line of defense regarding legal and regulatory risk of the international branches, with an all-encompassing scope of advice insofar as it includes any legal or regulatory matter affecting the branch's activity, with the exception of tax advice which falls under another area, in coordination with the lawyers located in the bank's Central Services.

Regarding the representative offices, the bank has a network of 17 representative offices distributed across North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Oceania, which are mainly dedicated to promoting and facilitating relationships with local financial institutions for foreign trade and financing operations, either with the bank's Spanish clients or with local companies. The International Branches & Regulatory Legal Department acts as the main support for the representative offices for all legal and regulatory matters affecting them.

• Great management and organizational capacity, allowing for the performance of coordination, monitoring, and reporting tasks autonomously and with high quality.
• Versatility and flexibility to provide support in different legal and regulatory matters that allow for managing and obtaining their resolution in a timely and proper manner in coordination with the various areas involved.
• Autonomy in task management. Flexibility to work autonomously with tight schedules.
• Proactive, hands-on attitude, dynamism, and capacity for teamwork and cross-functional work.
• Humanism, honesty, empathy, transparency, assertiveness.
• Analytical capacity and communication skills.
• Resilience and ability to adapt to changing and highly critical environments.

Expert in legal matters who advises the entity to ensure compliance with current regulations at all times and to resolve issues that may arise in different areas (commercial, labor, procedural, etc.) and avoid sanctions. The legal advisor may intervene in negotiation processes, advise on procurement, draft contracts, provide policy advice, etc.

H ADVISORY, REVIEW AND PREPARATION OF COMMERCIAL AND CIVIL DOCUMENTS AND CONTRACTS

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