Senior Regulatory Counsel

Senior Regulatory Counsel

Are you looking for a job where you can work with best-in-class lawyers on complex and challenging regulatory files in a global environment? Do you like to combine razor-sharp advisory skills with hands-on file handling and a dash of public policy interaction? Then this role as a Senior Regulatory Counsel in the Legal Regulatory Affairs team in Amsterdam is a unique opportunity to step up your game.

The team
The Legal Regulatory team is part of ING’s General Legal Affairs department in Amsterdam. The team consists of four lawyers that fully specialize in financial supervision and regulatory affairs. The team is responsible for advising on (prudential) supervision and administrative law in the broadest sense, both from a Dutch, European and international perspective. In addition to the advisory work, our lawyers handle sensitive and complex regulatory files both domestically as well as on a cross-border basis. Collaboration with other lawyers and internal and external stakeholders is key to delivering success.

Roles and responsibilities
As senior regulatory counsel you will be:

• Giving verbal or written practical, independent, solution-driven advice to management and business stakeholders on a wide range of legal matters in the areas of banking regulation and supervisory interactions.
• Coordinating regulatory applications, among others banking licenses, declarations of no objections, passport notifications and fit-and-proper testing.
• Engaging with the ECB, Dutch Central Bank and (other) local regulators
• Following future developments influencing ING and the financial industry.
• Participating on behalf of ING in professional dialogue with external stakeholders and formulating ING views on consultations related to new laws and regulations.

How to succeed
We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

What you need to be successful in this exciting role:

• A master’s degree in law, specializing in financial supervision
• We can rely on your in-depth knowledge of and extensive experience with advising on banking regulations in the Netherlands and Europe
• You have at least 7 years of proven hands-on experience, as an in-house counsel or lawyer with a reputed law firm, with regulatory filings with the European Central Bank, Dutch Central Bank and other EU banking regulators
• You combine sharp analytical skills, a bird’s eye view without losing focus on details, and a collaborative mindset
• You can handle significant workload, ambiguity as well as complexity
• Your exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills allow you to be effective at all levels of the ING organization
• You are fluent in Dutch and English, any additional languages are considered a plus

Rewards and benefits
We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us
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Questions?
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