Legal Manager

Keytrade Bank is a Belgian online bank offering a solid range of everyday banking services as well as a wide choice of investment and trading solutions. Over the past years, Keytrade Bank has experienced significant growth and has become an important player in the Belgian financial market. Yet, it is in no way comparable to a traditional bank. Its approach and atmosphere are those of a strong and fast-moving scale-up.

Keytrade Bank is the Belgian branch of Arkéa Direct Bank, a solid and reputable French bank that is part of the Crédit Mutuel Arkéa group, headquartered in Paris. Keytrade Bank is looking to strengthen its Legal & Compliance department with the recruitment of a
Legal Manage
r. You will report directly to the Head of Legal & Compliance and combine both managerial responsibilities and legal expertise within the team.

Your responsibilities

Legal expertise

• Provide high-quality legal support, including contract review, analysis, and advice to operational departments.
• Monitor Belgian banking and financial regulations, as well as relevant provisions of the Economic Law Code (e.g. mortgage and consumer credits, commercial practices).
• Offer pragmatic and solution-oriented interpretations.

Management and coordination

• Lead and coach a team of 4 Legal Advisors specialized in payments, taxation, GDPR, civil law, and related areas.
• Organize case allocation and ensure the quality and consistency of deliverables.
• Support the professional development and career growth of team members.
• Coordinate the implementation of regulatory changes in collaboration with the Head of Legal & Compliance.

Cross-functional contribution

• Work closely with the Head of Legal & Compliance.
• Contribute to transversal projects within the bank to ensure compliance.
• Act as a liaison between the legal team and other departments, bringing a constructive and pragmatic perspective.

Your profile

• Master's degree in law, ideally with a specialization or experience in banking law, economic law, or credit law
• 5 to 7 years of relevant professional experience, including proven team management
• Solid knowledge of the Belgian banking sector and financial regulation
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain legal concepts to non-lawyers
• Critical thinker, detail-oriented, solution-driven, and comfortable in a fast-changing environment.
• Bilingual FR/NL, with excellent command of English as a plus.

Your role

As an experienced Agile practitioner, your role is to support the team in the delivery of a high quality working software by promoting the agile values and using the scrum framework.

As Scrum Master at Keytrade Bank, you:

• Ensure the team adheres to the Scrum framework and coach the team in developing an agile mindset
• Facilitate some of the Scrum ceremonies
• Help the team to focus on the team's goals and priorities
• Support the team to keep the delivery on track by promoting transparence and applying scrum values
• Track the team capacity and velocity metrics for planning and progress purposes
• Remove impediments to team effectiveness
• Coach the Product Owner in the backlog management in order to have a good balance between delivery, quality and efficiency
• Manage team health & culture