Senior Counsel
Core
Provides and manages legal and regulatory advice for BMO Financial Group, focusing on structured products and funds.
Role type
Senior Counsel (Legal)
Builds
Legal strategies, compliance frameworks, and risk mitigation solutions for financial products.
Domain
Financial Services / Legal / Securities Law
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Securities law expertise, negotiation, legal strategy design, risk identification, regulatory compliance, complex issue resolution, stakeholder management, root cause analysis, policy implementation, creative problem solving.
Preferred skills
Knowledge of structured products and funds, private practice or in-house experience, regulatory body experience.
Technologies
N/A
Responsibilities
Influences and negotiates to achieve business objectives while minimizing legal risk; makes recommendations to senior leaders on strategy and new initiatives; acts as the prime subject matter expert for internal/external stakeholders; exercises judgement on complex, confidential and sensitive matters; identifies and resolves moderately complex issues; delivers legal advice and instructs external counsel; implements areas of improvement to ensure consistency with market place; resolves daily issues and escalates with appropriate analysis; identifies risks and implements mitigation actions.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC