Equitable Bank
Vice President, Legal – Personal Banking
Job Description
Enterprise Legal Leadership – Personal Banking Portfolio (Primary Focus)
- Provide strategic legal leadership for the Bank’s Personal Banking businesses, including mortgages, reverse mortgages, lending products, payments, deposits, wealth channels, sales, marketing, and distribution partnerships.
- Serve as the primary legal advisor to senior executives and business leaders on matters involving consumer protection, banking regulation, product design, marketing, distribution, and customer outcomes.
- Partner with business leaders in setting strategy and enabling execution through pragmatic, solution‑oriented legal advice that balances legal risk, regulatory expectations, and commercial objectives.
- Interpret and advise on complex legislative and regulatory requirements (e.g., Bank Act, consumer protection, OSFI guidelines, payments, privacy, CASL, AML/ATF), including material regulatory change, enforcement trends, and supervisory expectations...