Legal Counsel

Pay Details:

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Job Description:

Department Overview

You will be a member of a diverse and talented group of lawyers in the TD Legal Department. As Counsel, you will have a challenging and varied practice that will allow you to refine your legal skills every day. Working as part of a broader team, you will become a trusted legal advisor, providing ongoing support and legal advice to TD's Canadian Personal Bank.

Job Accountabilities

Your practice will include:

• Participating in Product Development, Issue-spotting, Marketing, and Regulatory Change Initiatives for the Canadian Personal Bank, with an emphasis on Lending Products, including Personal Lending and Credit Cards.

• Ensuring compliance with Bank Act, including consumer provisions and related codes/commitments and select provincial statutes.

• Reviewing marketing and advertising for the Businesses you support.

• Supporting the resolution of customer issues and complaints.

• Keeping up-to-date and advocating on new legislation and regulations impacting the Bank.

• Advising the Legal Department and the Businesses you support on legal issues affecting your areas of responsibility.

• Drafting and reviewing customer-facing agreements and communications.

• Supporting the management of relevant regulatory relationships and investigations.

Job Requirements

• Licensed to practice law in Ontario.

• Provide best-in-class legal advice that is integrated with your business partners' strategies and objectives and coordinated across all relevant jurisdictions.

• Demonstrate excellent business and legal judgment, with an aptitude for working effectively on cross-functional teams.

• Provide advice in a clear, concise, and timely manner in a highly demanding and time sensitive environment, managing conflicting points of view and designing creative solutions.

• Act as a practical, solution-oriented problem solver, with an ability to think critically, work independently and make risk-based decisions.

• Build and maintain excellent, collaborative working relationships internally and externally and regularly advise and collaborate with other representatives of Control Functions within the Bank.

• Contribute to high-priority Legal Department initiatives, including Knowledge Management and workflow improvement.

• Manage multiple deadlines and priorities.

• Ability to stay energized, productive and focused in the face of ambiguity, change or strenuous demands, including the ability to create a supportive environment that helps others become more resilient and productive.

• Ability to create a welcoming environment that encourages different perspectives and new ideas, building a culture of curiosity, openness, and creativity across the organization and the wider community.

• Minimum 2 years' experience in a legal role is an asset, although not mandatory.

Who We Are:

TD is one of the world's leading global financial institutions and is the fifth largest bank in North America by branches/stores. Every day, we deliver legendary customer experiences to over 27 million households and businesses in Canada, the United States and around the world. More than 95,000 TD colleagues bring their skills, talent, and creativity to the Bank, those we serve, and the economies we support. We are guided by our vision to Be the Better Bank and our purpose to enrich the lives of our customers, communities and colleagues.

TD is deeply committed to being a leader in customer experience, that is why we believe that all colleagues, no matter where they work, are customer facing. As we build our business and deliver on our strategy, we are innovating to enhance the customer experience and build capabilities to shape the future of banking. Whether you’ve got years of banking experience or are just starting your career in financial services, we can help you realize your potential. Through regular leadership and development conversations to mentorship and training programs, we’re here to support you towards your goals. As an organization, we keep growing – and so will you.

Our Total Rewards Package
Our Total Rewards package reflects the investments we make in our colleagues to help them and their families achieve their financial, physical, and mental well-being goals. Total Rewards at TD includes a base salary, variable compensation, and several other key plans such as health and well-being benefits, savings and retirement programs, paid time off, banking benefits and discounts, career development, and reward and recognition programs. Learn more

Additional Information:
We’re delighted that you’re considering building a career with TD. Through regular development conversations, training programs, and a competitive benefits plan, we’re committed to providing the support our colleagues need to thrive both at work and at home.

Colleague Development
If you’re interested in a specific career path or are looking to build certain skills, we want to help you succeed. You’ll have regular career, development, and performance conversations with your manager, as well as access to an online learning platform and a variety of mentoring programs to help you unlock future opportunities. Whether you have a passion for helping customers and want to expand your experience, or you want to coach and inspire your colleagues, there are many different career paths within our organization at TD – and we’re committed to helping you identify opportunities that support your goals.

Training & Onboarding
We will provide training and onboarding sessions to ensure that you’ve got everything you need to succeed in your new role.

Interview Process
We’ll reach out to candidates of interest to schedule an interview. We do our best to communicate outcomes to all applicants by email or phone call.

Accommodation
Your accessibility is important to us. Please let us know if you’d like accommodations (including accessible meeting rooms, captioning for virtual interviews, etc.) to help us remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.

We look forward to hearing from you!

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