Senior Legal Counsel for Regulatory Model Management - maternity cover

Artificial Intelligence? ESG? Sustainable Finance? Danske Bank Group is on the lookout for a Senior Legal Counsel who thrives in changing regulatory settings and is keen on shaping how we ensure regulatory compliance and oversight within our first line of defense. Are you able to engage with stakeholders on all levels across business units and jurisdictions? Then, we might have an interesting opportunity for you.

In Danske Bank, we are on a transformative journey where regulatory compliance management is one of our most important focus areas. As our new Senior Legal Counsel, you will be deeply involved in the way Danske Bank Group will work to ensure regulatory traction and oversight in the future and will be able to shape our ways of working.

Be a part of the transformation and institutionalisation
You have the chance to join a banking institution in a maternity cover with an end date in February 2026. You will experience how we excel in a swift operational tempo, agile ways of working, low management stratification, and a comprehensive commitment to stakeholder experience.

As a part of the Regulatory Model Management team, you will join a team responsible for creating a single pipeline of all regulatory initiatives across the Danske Bank Group. Your main area of responsibility will be to anchor ownership, oversee regulatory implementation, ensure traction and reporting to management in regard to our Regulatory Model and portfolio. As part of you daily work, you will:

• Ensure corporate governance by anchoring regulatory initiatives in the organisation for implementation and execution based on e.g., internal regulatory policies
• Facilitate early impact assessments of large and transversal regulatory initiatives to initiate anchoring and to support the owner of the regulatory initiative
• Prepare initial risk impacts for the regulatory initiatives to increase the transparency of the risk level of the regulatory portfolio
• Prepare and deliver consolidated reporting on entire portfolio of ongoing regulatory initiatives to Group Regulatory Committee
• Provide support to stakeholders such as business units, programme/project leads, Tribe Landscape, 2nd LoD

Collaboration, flexibility and engagement
We are looking for a team member that is skilled at creating and maintaining relations, keeping overview of complex regulations and who thrives in a lively working environment. You are curious by nature and are motivated to address challenges with a creative and solution-oriented mindset.

Your background:

• You have 4+ years relevant experience in regulatory traction and/or oversight within a highly regulated industry such as the financial, pharmaceutical or equivalent
• You hold a Master’s degree in Law or Commercial Law (e.g., LL.M., cand.jur, or cand.merc.jur)
• You have knowledge of regulatory compliance, control methodologies, and regulatory impact analyses and assessments
• You are comfortable presenting and conveying legal cases to stakeholders with a non-legal background
• You are fluent in English (spoken and written), and it is a prerequisite that you can read Danish legislation
• You have great stakeholder management skills and can ensure execution since you will collaborate with many different people in different levels of the organisation

So why should you apply?

“Simple: you will have a great impact on one of Danske Bank’s highest priorities. You will be empowered and trusted to lead a change, and you will have a great influence in defining our ways of working in Regulatory Model Management. Most importantly, you will be part of a team and an area with high focus, a contagious sense of enthusiasm and energy where collaboration and execution are key, and where “having fun while working” is the motto,” says your new leader, Birgitte Tjørnehøj Jørgensen.

Interested?
We have a flexible working-from-home setup where most colleagues work 1-2 days a week from home.

If you have any questions about the job, please contact: Birgitte Tjørnehøj Jørgensen at birj@danskebank.dk. We will be reviewing you application on an ongoing basis, so please apply sooner than later.

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Copenhagen V, Denmark

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