Corporate Bank Counsel - Assistant Vice President - Vice President

Job Description:

Job Title Corporate Bank Counsel - Assistant Vice President  - Vice President

Corporate Title Vice President

Location Jacksonville, FL

Overview

Deutsche Bank’s legal department is seeking a qualified attorney located in Jacksonville, Florida to support the Bank’s Corporate Banking (CB) business, which consists of Cash Management, Trade Finance, as well as Trust & Agency Services and Security Services. Your primary focus will be supporting the Trade Finance and Cash Management businesses with an expectation to support other areas of the Corporate Bank over time. As part of the Corporate Bank legal team, you will provide timely counsel and legal support of domestic and global transactions in a cost-effective manner while owning diverse and complex legal issues that require excellent business judgement. You should also welcome working as part of a highly collaborative and international team.

What We Offer You

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation, and collaboration

• A hybrid working model, allowing for in-office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days

• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement

• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, and family building benefits

• Educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programs

What You’ll Do

• Provide day-to-day support across the Business including with respect to receivables financing, supply chain financing, letters of credit, import/export financing, commodities, risk participations, short-term lending arrangements and cash management agreements

• Coordinate, review and assist in finalizing external counsel due diligence for cross-border confirmed payables arrangements

• Identify unusual legal, operational or credit risks and ensure that such risks are appropriately addressed and/or escalated

• Assist with structuring new business transactions and endeavor to provide legal support without significant reliance on outside counsel

• Collaborate with strategic partners in various departments, seeking guidance and input from colleagues throughout the organization to ensure solutions balance the Bank’s risk framework with the Corporate Bank business needs

How You’ll Lead

• Act as subject matter expert and provide guidance within the team

Skills You’ll Need

• Moderate experience (depending on corporate title) at a law firm and/or in-house counsel at a financial institution with emphasis on structuring, drafting and negotiating documentation for trade finance instruments and bilateral loan agreements, cash management agreements and/or other sophisticated financing arrangements

• Relevant documentation and transactional experience should include work with accounts receivable financing, import/export transactions, letters of credit, security agreements, risk participations, etc

• Must possess strong communication and drafting skills and demonstrate experience in risk identification and analysis

• JD and at least one state bar admission (active and good standing). Florida or NY preferred but will consider other locations

Skills That’ll Help You Excel

• Professional written and verbal communication

• Experience in Microsoft Office products

• Experience with presentations and communication to leadership

Expectations

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in the Jacksonville office in accordance with the Bank’s hybrid working model.

Deutsche Bank provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees with a substantiated need based on disability and/or religion.

The salary range for this position in Jacksonville is $100,000 to $145,500. Actual salaries may be based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s skill set, experience, education, work location and other qualifications. Posted salary ranges do not include incentive compensation or any other type of remuneration.

Deutsche Bank Benefits

At Deutsche Bank, we recognize that our benefit programs have a profound impact on our colleagues. That’s why we are focused on providing benefits and perks that enable our colleagues to live authenti­cally and be their whole selves, at every stage of life. We provide access to physical, emotional, and financia