Legal Counsel

Roles & Responsibilities

Primary Purpose of Role

This exciting role is to manage legal risk and ensure commercially focused, practical legal advice is provided across a scope of work, including corporate and commercial matters, to key stakeholders at all levels of seniority. The legal counsel will assist the business to proactively identify and respond to relevant legislative and regulatory change and advise on operational issues and strategic project work for the organisation.

This role will be based in Singapore and will be responsible for working with the General Counsel to assist key stakeholders across the business.

Key Accountabilities

· Assist in negotiating and reviewing a variety of commercial contracts with third parties from inception/renewal through to execution

· Offer strategic legal advice to stakeholders on a wide range of matters

· Providing corporate and corporate secretarial support

· Ensuring solid commercial management of litigation matters and legal briefs from the business with assistance from external legal panel of firms (where necessary), including appropriate escalation and reporting within the business

· Drafting new contract templates and implementing new processes for the organisation

· Provide advice on regulations that is relevant to the business

· Assisting with various corporate projects including sustainability reporting.

Technical Experience & Key Skills

· Commercially astute and ability to manage competing priorities and competing deadlines

· Managing stakeholder expectations with an open and flexible approach to all stakeholders

· Ability to work autonomously with ability to escalate appropriately

· Strong contract, drafting and negotiation skills

· Promote and contribute to a positive team culture that is consistent with Kacific’s values

Qualifications

· Law degree with 0-5 years PQE

· Strong appreciation for Kacific’s mission with a strong work ethic and desire to work in a dynamic, fast-paced and demanding environment essential.

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About the Role

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• This role includes responsibilities of managing 3 team members and overseeing operations, subsidiaries, assigned POA over specific matters and/or other appointments such as Data Protection Officer

• Maintain an oversight of all the alerts from FINTECH, MASNET, Group Cyber SOC for AIASG and provide support to incident response personnel to ensure all deliverables are met within SLAs.

• Maintain an oversight of related security posture and baseline and ensure related vulnerabilities are remediated timely as per established standard to minimize risk exposures.

• Drive local security projects and group security project facilitation.

• Develop and maintain local incident response playbooks and other detection/response related standard operating procedures to ensure compliant to the MAS regulations.

• Act for the incident response action approval chain and support any incident response obligation for third parties.

• Respond to computer security incidents according to established response processes, leverages subject matter expertise where established processes do not exist.

• Acts as a subject matter expert regarding CSIRT incident response processes from local perspective.

• Provides guidance to other stakeholders during the incident response process and follow & track all the remediation actions till incident closure.

• Chair local IMT (Incident Management Team) calls and keep senior management and stakeholder updates on the progress of cyber incident management.

• Identify and manage potential and actual operational issues within the incident detection/response domain and take corrective action whenever required

• Work as a liaison between the SOC Team, other departments, and upper management for AIASG and potentially local regulators

• Manage relationships with our customers’ and third parties’ tech incident teams and frequently interact with client management for any security incident related queries.

• Work closely with the Group SOC team to manage ongoing service delivery and onboarding of local process within the SOC alignment and compliant to the local regulations.

• Level and type of budgetary or financial control of the position, responsible for budget of Information Security and Governance unit.

• Other quantitative / qualitative measures, e.g. time, quality, feedback, etc., that are tied to the objective of the area of responsibilities.

• Downward trend in cyber security incidents and less DP incidents.

• Uplift Cyber Security process, controls and maturity level for Cyber Security Incident.

• Support for the Cyber Security score in the annual MAS CRAFT report.

WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WITH | YOU WILL HAVE:

• Bachelor’s degree of computer science, computer engineering or other relevant degrees

• Minimum 8 years of IT experience with at least 4 years’ of experience in cyber security incident handling in a regulated environment (e.g. FSI, government etc.)

• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity incident management covering identification, containment, response, recovery and reporting

• Sound knowledge of Cloud, Cyber Monitoring, Threat Hunting, and Cyber Threat Intelligence

• Natural ability to take the lead and drive the investigation of complex security issues, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Self-driven professional interested in the world of cyber security

• Standby for the serious security incident during weekend or off-working hours if necessary

• Hands-on experience for the cyber security incident scenario preparation and tabletop exercise

• Technical understanding of enterprise network, various components and designs and strong understanding of Operating Systems, Applications, Databases in both on-prem and Cloud environment, how they are exploited and how to defend

• Good knowledge of conducting RCA for the incident

• Information Systems Security professional certifications, such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, CSSP or Cloud related.

• A team-player taking ownership and helping colleagues.

• Excellent Analytical, Coordination and Interpersonal Skills.

• Good communication skills and the communication network of the incumbent is expected to be internally within Technology Department (30%) and Enterprise Risk Management, Compliance, Internal Audit (15%), Business Departments (10%), Senior Management and Sub-Committees (10%),Group Technology and Group Information Security (20%) and external with Vendors and Service Providers (15%).

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