Legal Expert Business Banking

We are looking for an enthusiastic Legal Expert with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience in business banking. In short, you will advise and support the ING Business Banking department within ING Netherlands on transactions, day-to-day legal questions and the development of new products and new initiatives. Your work may also include monitoring relevant legal developments and supporting legal proceedings in court and at Kifid (Dutch Institute for Financial Disputes).

The team
As a Legal Expert, you are part of ING Legal Netherlands (Legal NL). Legal NL advises on many different product areas, such as payments, mortgages, consumer loans, business lending, private banking, restructuring and investments. Other areas of focus within Legal NL include anti-money laundering, fraud, privacy, ESG and digitalisation. Legal NL is part of a network of more than 500 ING lawyers working across the globe which allows us to share expertise, best practices, relevant developments in case law and more.

Legal NL is an inspiring working environment in the middle of the continuously changing world of ING. You will be part of the Chapter Business- and Private Banking, one of the four Chapters within Legal NL. This Chapter has business banking (for example sales, lending and real estate financing), restructuring, private banking and investments as its key focus areas. We work together closely, challenge each other and share knowledge by formal and informal means. This allows us to benefit as much as possible from shared knowledge and experience, lessons learned and best practices.

We are looking for a Legal Expert with a focus on business banking. You act as a 'spider in the web’ when it comes to working with the business departments that rapidly change our customer journeys and make them more digital, sustainable and customer friendly. We want to ensure that our customers are best served; ING can rightfully call itself the most digital bank in the Netherlands and we serve our vision: Sustainable progress for all.

Roles and responsibilities

• You will advise and support our internal clients within ING Netherlands with focus on business banking (sales and lending).

• You will be part of the (parp-)process of (new) products and new initiatives, e.g. (sustainable-) loans.

• Your work includes monitoring relevant legal developments, implementing new laws and regulations into ING policies.

• You will advise on transactions and answer day-to-day legal questions.

• You will create and maintain standard documentation, e.g. loan- and collateral documentation.

• You will handle client complaints and advise on or support legal proceedings in court and at Kifid (Dutch Institute for Financial Disputes).

• You will also work together with colleagues from the ING Netherlands Risk organisation to identify, assess, and manage the non-financial risks for ING.

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.

• You have a Dutch University degree in Law.

• You are proficient in Dutch and English (both in writing and verbally).

• You have a minimum of 3 years of relevant working experience within a financial institution, a supervisor/regulator and/or a law firm.

• You have a demonstrable affinity with financial law and banking.

• You are proactive, enthusiastic, customer-oriented, pragmatic, flexible, analytical, and a real team player.

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

●          Mobility Card

●          Hybrid working

●          Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

●          An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us
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Questions?
Contact the recruiter attached to the advertisement. Want to apply directly? Please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the ‘Apply’ button.