Principal/associate, Legal

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Full time

Requisition ID- 33233- Office Country- United Kingdom- Office City- London- Division- Policy and Partnerships- Contract Type- Short Term- Contract Length- 18 months- Posting End Date- 03/03/2023**Purpose of Job**

The Principal/Associate is a member of the CFMD team, which is responsible for handling all aspects of the development of financial and capital markets in the EBRD COOs including the provision of transaction support, engagement in policy dialogue, and capacity building. The role entails strategic coordination with CFMD Team’s other pillars as well as many of the departments of the Bank including Banking, Treasury, OCE, OGC, Risk, Credit, and other Policy teams and external engagement with a wide range of market participants including in other IFIs, Government Agencies, central banks, exchanges, depositories and settlement institutions, regulators, and supervisors, institutional investors and other market participants.

The role is responsible for the delivery of policy dialogue activities, ensuring coordination with banking OLs in the origination and structuring of FI projects with policy components, leveraging transactions to develop and support capacity to implement relevant sectoral regulatory frameworks. The role entails collaboration with economists in the Impact / Partnership pillar to raise the TI ambition of projects as needed. The role reports to the Associate Director, Legal and Regulatory Reforms, CFMD.

**Accountabilities & Responsibilities**
- Policy dialogue:_
- Design, manage and lead policy dialogue with relevant stakeholders to promote financial sector development with a view to developing long-term relationships and becoming a trusted adviser - these could include policy dialogue to ensure the resilience of the financial system, fostering competition in the banking sector, improving the governance of state-owned banks as well as advancing a wide range of capital market reforms;
- Build consensus within the bank on the recommendations arising from the country needs assessments and, in cooperation with team members responsible for country coverage and other key bank stakeholders, establish appropriate next steps for EBRD’s contribution to financial sector development in specific countries;
- Establish buy-in from key external stakeholders (e.g. government authorities, regulators, IFIs and other market participants) on the importance of developing more efficient and sustainable financial systems.
- Transaction design and support:_
- Proactively guide the EBRD Banking and Treasury departments towards development opportunities, based on agreed country-level market development priorities including to ensure that transactions are aligned with relevant policy recommendations;
- Support product innovation by assisting the EBRD’s Banking colleagues in designing specific financial institutions transactions, and banking transactions with capital market and local currency relevance to maximise the impact of EBRD investments;
- Provide input into the design and appraisal of relevant FI projects with policy components, working with the Impact pillar to enhance the TI ambition as appropriate;
- Liaise with EBRD’s Treasury Department to strengthen synergies between CFMD activities and EBRD’s own treasury operations;
- Design, manage and coordinate TC projects with internal and external counterparts to support reforms or specific transactions in the financial sector or capital markets.
- Monitor the performance of TC projects and work with the Impact pillar to ensure adequate ambition.
- Research and analytical work:_
- Prepare, review and oversee the production of high quality analytical reports and policy notes that adequately analyse/reflect financial market development issues with particular emphasis on the areas of their team’s expertise.

**Knowledge, Skills, Experience & Qualifications**
- Postgraduate degree in Finance, Law, Economics, Accounting or related fields.
- Hands-on experience working with a wide range of financial and/or capital market products, including debt, equity and derivatives or designing related legislative or legal reforms;
- Experience in local currency and capital market product design including funding and hedging and derivative market development;
- Proven project management experience, preferably related to financial sector development in transition economies;
- Proven ability to work across organisational boundaries and operate effectively in a multi-cultural work environment;
- Experience with managing diverse teams and driving engagement.
- Strong communication skills, both oral and in writing in English and, preferably in one or more languages of EBRD’s countries of operations; must be able to explain complex technical issues effectively; previous experience producing policy documents, assessment reports and thematic reports in International Financial Institutions, think tanks, consultancy firms or other organisations having a development mandate

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