Legal Counsel

Legal Counsel (Regulatory Licensing Corporate Commercial & General Counsel Support)

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Legal Counsel to support our Group General Counsel across two core areas: (1) global regulatory licensing matters spanning jurisdictions that include Singapore the United States Hong Kong and Australia and (2) broad general counsel support across corporate commercial disputes compliance and partnerships matters. This is a hands-on high-ownership role suited to a lawyer who is comfortable managing multiple external counsel relationships drafting original policy and governance documents and acting as a trusted internal advisor to Compliance Partnerships Sales and Business teams.

The ideal candidate has commercial / corporate background or alternatively a cross-border regulatory experience (financial services / payments / fintech licensing strongly preferred) is confident in liaising directly with external law firms and regulators and can independently manage competing workstreams across multiple time zones.

Qualifications & Experience

- Qualified lawyer (JD/LLB or equivalent) with bar admission in at least one relevant jurisdiction.

- Work Authorisation: We prefer applicants who already hold a valid work pass (such as an Employment Pass or S Pass) or are Singapore Citizens/PRs. Please clearly indicate your current work authorisation status in your application.

- 5 - 10 years of relevant experience ideally including in-house experience at a fintech payments or financial services company and/or corporate / commercial or regulatory practice at a law firm.

- Demonstrated experience with financial services licensing (e.g. payment institution licences money transmitter licences or similar) across multiple jurisdictions.

- Experience managing and coordinating with external counsel across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously.

- Strong drafting skills across policy documents governance frameworks memoranda and contracts.

- Comfortable working across time zones and attending recurring calls with international stakeholders.

- Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience supporting Compliance Partnerships Sales and Business teams.

- Familiarity with privacy law dispute resolution processes and corporate governance matters is a plus.

Key Attributes

- High ownership mindset - comfortable driving workstreams independently with minimal oversight.

- Strong organisational skills to manage multiple concurrent regulatory and commercial workstreams.

- Clear concise communicator able to distil complex legal/regulatory issues for non-legal stakeholders.

- Pragmatic commercially-minded approach to legal risk.

Reporting line: Group General Counsel

Location: Singapore

Job Type: Full time.