Counsel - Commercial Banking & Shared Services

Work Location:

Mount Laurel, New Jersey, United States of America

Hours:

40

Pay Details:$140,000 - $231,000 USDTD is committed to providing fair and equitable compensation opportunities to all colleagues. Growth opportunities and skill development are defining features of the colleague experience  compensation policies and practices have been designed to allow colleagues to progress through the salary range over time as they progress in their role. The base pay actually offered may vary based upon the candidate's skills and experience, job-related knowledge, geographic location, and other specific business and organizational needs.

As a candidate, you are encouraged to ask compensation related questions and have an open dialogue with your recruiter who can provide you more specific details for this role.

Line of Business:

Legal

Job Description:

The Counsel provides legal advice and support to management and employees in Corporate Group functions and Business units. Functions as a legal resource focusing on one or more defined subject matters and/or specific businesses. Typical tasks include managing litigation, negotiating contracts, assisting the Business with product roll-outs, and advising the Business regarding regulatory developments. Responsible for anticipating and addressing potential legal risks.

Relies on legal skills, experience and judgment to accomplish goals.

TD's US Commercial Banking & Shared Services Legal team supports the US Commercial Bank and Shared Services, helping to enable their business strategies while managing legal risks presented in day-to-day operations. The team works closely with senior leadership, credit management, credit risk, relationship managers, and other key stakeholders to provide legal support in a number of areas, including without limitation policy and procedure reviews, issue remediation, contract negotiation, transactional risk analysis, litigation management, and the sourcing of legal advice from other teams internal to TD Legal and external law firms as needed.

Depth & Scope:

Provides consistent and sound legal advice in a clear, concise and responsive manner by taking initiative to develop legal knowledge and skill; knowing relevant substantive law, identifying legal issues; knowing the business and its products, operations, strategy, risk appetite and regulatory environment; owning the role of interpreting legal requirements through a balanced understanding of the law and business context to formulate relevant legal theories;

and identifying business issues and policies related to the legal requirements, describing legal issues and options to the client.

Identifies conflict situations and brings more senior lawyers into the decision-making process as appropriate by identifying situations when actions that the business unit wants to take conflicts with TD's risk appetite and discusses with client how particular actions might be inconsistent.

Effectively contributes to and/or leads negotiations and conflict resolutions by gathering supportive information in preparation for the negotiation, understanding the dynamics of the process and displaying an effective combination of firmness, tact, patience and respect in dealing with all parties involved

Education & Experience:

Bachelors degree required JD from accredited law school required5+ Years of related experience

Admission to appropriate State Bar in good standing and licensed to practice law in the State Basic understanding of banking/financial services operations and issues

Ability to simplify, problem solve, multitask and work effectively against deadlines

Integrity and high moral standards

Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills

Strong legal research and analysis skills

Detail oriented

Must be able to apply legal knowledge to the business

Ability to exercise sound judgment

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Strong teamwork and client skills

Highly motivated

May supervise administrative and paralegal staff and junior attorneys

Preferred Qualifications:

Commercial banking experience in a law firm or in-house environment

Deep experience negotiating commercial financing contracts

Experience managing or assisting with commercial loan workouts

Experience with subsidiary and/or entity-level corporate governance

Working knowledge of laws, rules, and regulations applicable to commercial and small business lending

Experience working in a regulatory environment

Please note this role has onsite requirements of 4 days per week.

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