Legal Counsel Governance

Working for Rabobank’s corporate and group governance spans across Rabobank Group as a whole, covering 37 countries around the globe. That could be your world.

You and your job

As Legal Counsel Governance, your high-quality legal advice contributes to effective, compliant and sustainable governance and steering of Rabobank Group. This includes advising our internal stakeholders and decision makers on material governance arrangements of corporate bodies within Rabobank and subsidiaries, Rabobank’s unique cooperative governance structure and a wide array of related topics. You will join a senior and highly committed team with a collaborative focus and work close to the heart of the principal decision making center of a globally active financial institution.

Being a Legal Counsel Group Governance in an international banking group, company law and governance codes as well as (financial) regulatory laws and guidelines (such as the Capital Requirements Directive, Financial Supervision Act and EBA Guidelines on Internal Governance) are part of your daily practice.

Practical Examples

• Early involvement in material organizational changes, designing and advising on governance set-up in multi-disciplinary working groups
• Review or draft governance documents like Articles of Association, Terms of Reference, Rules of Procedure and contribute to maintaining templates and sharing relevant knowhow
• Advise on related topics like duties of directors, conflict of interest, liability, indemnities, mandating of decision power, regulatory requirements for bank governance, representation and proxy, suitability processes (fit & proper testing), cross border challenges and decision making support

Top 3 responsibilities

• Work on material governance arrangements and related topics
• Keeping track of relevant legislative developments and processes and applying it in our daily practice
• Closely collaborate with committed and experienced team members but also key stakeholders like Corporate Secretary & Cooperative Governance, Compliance and Financial Economic Crime, and other domains

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of cooperation. Bringing together people's expertise and valuing each’s talents, personality and skills is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team.

‘What makes me enthusiastic about my job is the fact that I’m continuously involved in a wide range of interesting projects at the intersection of corporate governance and regulatory rules and regulations, enabling my stakeholders to make it happen and having a wide variety of highly skilled colleagues.’ Lauran Vissers, Senior Legal Counsel

The currently 16 counsel in Legal Corporate, team Governance, Prudential & Employment focus on Rabobank Group’s steering and decision making, its legal and capital structure, employees and other assets. Working together is the way we work; as one effective expert team at Rabobank.

Talking of Rabobank

We are a Dutch bank that operates in 37 countries for over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

You and your talent

• You have completed the Dutch legal university education (rechten), bachelor and master; master in Notarial Law is preferred
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in the corporate practice
• Solid strategic discussion partner and advisory skills
• An excellent command of both Dutch and English, spoken and written

Further, it is important that you recognize yourself in the skills below:

• Open minded and eager to learn
• Strong analytical skills and conceptual thinking
• Drive and decisiveness; taking ownership is in your nature
• Accurate
• Collaborative, team player
• Storytelling, able to bring across the message
• Political skills and sensitivity, both in communication and in exploring and understanding interests of others

This is what we offer you

• A salary between € 4.515,51 and € 7.687,41 gross per month depending on experience (Scale 9 or scale 10)
• Thirteenth month and 8% holiday allowance
• An extra budget of 10% of your gross salary to be used at your discretion. Buy extra holiday hours, add more to your pension savings or ask for part of the extra budget to be paid out

Any questions about the job content? Contact: Marco van Ballegooy, Team Lead Governance, Prudential & Employment via marco.van.ballegooy@rabobank.nl or +31645084321;