Total 2 legal counsel job vacancies in Information Technology category in d06 beach road high street

WFH 4 days, WFO 1 day

Are you ready to embark on a career that defies the norm and fearlessly pushes the boundaries of finance and technology? You’ve come to the right place. Our team embodies the meaning of audax - courage - and we're seeking bold individuals like yourself to join us in revolutionising the financial services industry.

Our mission is to help banks and financial institutions scale and modernise, giving our clients the opportunity to offer digital banking and Banking-as-a-Service. Together, let’s pave the path to a future where technology and finance converge seamlessly and be the change the industry needs.

About audax

audax Financial Technology, a subsidiary of Standard Chartered, is a comprehensive stack digital banking solutions provider empowering banks and financial institutions to scale and modernise at speed. audax Financial Technology has enabled new business models and revenue streams for Standard Chartered under the Standard Chartered nexus proposition, becoming the first international bank in Singapore to provide Banking-as-a-Service.

For more information, please visit us at www.audax.io.

audax is looking for a proactive solutions-focussed commercial lawyer with financial services experience, gained in either a law firm or with a financial institution, to join us as Head of Legal. You would ideally have experience handling a wide range of legal matters and are comfortable providing senior management complex, multi-jurisdictional legal guidance. The scope of work will include drafting and negotiating various legal documents, advising on product and commercial structuring, partnership arrangements, relevant regulatory matters, establishment and implementation of governance and compliance processes, and oversight of corporate secretarial services.

What you will be doing:

Strategy and Advisory

• Overall responsibility for legal matters and managing audax’s legal requirements.
• Work in alliance with audax management team and SC Ventures Legal to ensure compliance by audax and its directors with (i) relevant regulatory requirements, (ii) privacy laws, (iii) outsourcing requirements and (iv) any other policies, standards, and guidelines applicable to audax.
• Provide general corporate, and commercial legal directions across the business, supporting its needs in Singapore and elsewhere as it expands into new territories.
• Drafting and negotiating a range of commercial agreements, including but not limited to software development, SaaS, data transfer, strategic partnerships, product-specific terms, and terms of use for audax’s platform.
• Work closely with stakeholders to structure and develop products and services constructs s from scratch, including reviewing and working through process flows and understanding complexities of the relevant products and technology and provide legal and regulatory insight and expertise on existing and developing business propositions.
• Advising on legal and regulatory matters (including licensing) associated with transactions, partnership and product structure, operations, and entry into new markets, including IP and data privacy/ protection.
• Lead the development and implementation of standardized legal workflows within audax including identifying key legal touchpoints within core business functions, mapping workflows and streamlined procedures for contract review, risk assessment, and legal document approvals
• Engage, procure, and manage external counsel support as and when required.

Risk Management and Governance

• Execute the relevant aspects of the Legal policies through robust independent risk control and the provision of specialist advice and constructive challenge in a manner proportionate to the nature, scale, and complexity of audax’s business
• Ensure that legal risks are identified and mitigated, or are raised and risk-accepted by SC Ventures and appropriate legal templates are developed and used for dealings with third parties with adequate protections and remedies to address end-to-end product risks, and ensure that transactions with third parties are valid and enforceable under relevant laws
• Keep updated on relevant changes in law and regulations, shifting industry or market practices and litigation affecting audax.
• Participate in the Board Risk Committee and Enterprise Risk Committee and manage issues involving product related legal, regulatory, and reputational risks,
• Provide input for the design of related controls and control monitoring and reporting at the local subsidiary.
• Establish and maintain strong governance of services and products.

Corporate Secretarial & Board Support

• Coordinate and follow through the execution of all board resolution and minutes, including any underlying documents approved to be signed.
• Assisting the SC Ventures Company Secretary in the on-boarding and induction of INEDs and NEDs in relation to audax directors.
• Work with and lead the company secretarial function to file reports or events with the registrar of Companies.
• Work in close co-operation with the SC Ventures Corporate Secretariat in relation to governance of the company.
• Act as the Responsible Person for purposes of updating Blueprint, our entity management system

Regulatory & Business Conduct (where applicable)

• Serve as audax’s primary point of contact for all regulatory legal matters.
• Support audax’s regulatory communication plan to maintain an excellent relationship with the regulators through close and regular dialogues to provide updates and drive resolution of issues.
• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.
• Proactively support and challenge audax to exhibit appropriate conduct, comply with regulatory and compliance requirements and strive to achieve fair outcomes for the audax’s clients and other stakeholders.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct in audax. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct of Standard Chartered Bank.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate, and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

What you need to be successful in this role:

• Qualified to practice in Singapore.
• Minimum of 15 years of experience practicing law, with a focus on corporate and regulatory matters within the fintech industry.
• Experienced in handling a wide range of legal matters, including commercial contract matters, employment, and regulatory matters.
• Knowledge of and experienced in fintech preferred including familiarity with digital platforms and associated legal issues. Proven ability to lead a collaborative team and problem-solve effectively with the business. Experienced in facilitating cross-functional teams to tackle complex challenges.
• Experienced in advising on laws and regulations in other countries advantageous.
• Strong analytical and communication skills with ability to counsel senior management on complex legal matters and make clear recommendations regarding legal issues.
• Self-starter, solutions-focused, innovative.
• Excellent organisational skills with ability to meet multiple deadlines.
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, and resilience.

% Remote working and % of travel expected: 40% Remote; up to 60% travel

About the job

At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one overarching mission - to work passionately, challenging ourselves and our industry every day, to build a healthier future by helping people, help themselves, bringing “Health in Your Hands”.

Our teams are building trusted & loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide, enabling better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. To fulfill this mission, we are embarking our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees in this journey because this is what will make us become the “Best Fast-Moving Consumer Healthcare (FMCH) Company In & For the World”.

We strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view.

To achieve this, we need strong talent who will help us shape the future of our Consumer Healthcare business and challenge our industry. At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we aspire to create a work environment where people can thrive, grow, and be at their best every day. Our priority is working with integrity to improve the health and well-being of people and communities where we operate, working towards making a positive impact in the world.

Our Team:

You will be working with the General Counsel at Sanofi CHC, and collaborating with around 15 colleagues. Your role will involve managing a team of approximately 4 sub-zones/country lawyers within your region. The team is diverse, consisting of individuals from various cultures including Australia, Indonesia, Japan, and others. They work closely with clusters and zones in ANZ, China, Middle East, and Africa, as well as the regional head.

Main responsibilities:

You drive the regional and zone/local legal strategy for the CHC GBU.

Leadership Teams: member of the CHC Legal Leadership Team and of the CHC Regional Leadership Team.

The CHC Legal Team aims to serve as trusted partners to the business, enabling its sustainable growth while caring for consumers and people, all while protecting Sanofi's independence.

We do so by delivering qualitative and timely legal advice, optimizing processes and resources, spotting trends and shaping the external environment, leveraging on local legal teams and sharing accountability with the business for successes and failures.

Embracing these principles is key to succeed in the position. Role modelling Sanofi's Play to Win behaviours is another critical attribute.

Major areas of responsibility include:

Key Accountabilities:

Global responsibilities

Serve as a trusted advisor to the regional CHC business leadership team.

Contribute proactively to the CHC Legal Leadership Team, keeping the global team informed on critical developments in the region.

Deliver high-quality, cost-effective, and timely legal services across the region, managing legal and regulatory risk and assuring compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, standards, and policies.

Establish adequate governance and local legal support, either through an external network where there is no in-house resource or through the recruitment, management, retention, and development of local legal in-house talent.

Define and implement the region's legal strategies; responsibly managing the region's legal budget (internal and external legal costs).

Design, select, manage and evaluate the regional outside counsel network, with an aim to consolidate in one firm as a "one stop shop", all legal counsel needs of the region.

Develop a close and collaborative working relationship with all functional and business leaders at regional and global level, supporting priority projects that stretch you beyond your regional role.

Local responsibilities

Render effective and thoughtful advice to the Regional CHC leadership team.

Provide legal support to CHC teams on their daily operations, to ensure the achievement of business goals compliantly.

Advise and assist on a wide range of business law matters such as contracting, supply manufacturing, digital, data privacy, among others.

Support on authorities' investigations and inspections (excluding compliance topics managed by the EBI team) relating to CHC operations.

Manage CHC third party claims, disputes and litigations.

Ensure abidance to your legal budget.

Oversee outside counsel, including selection, budgeting, management and evaluation.

Drive legal executional excellence through simplification initiatives, optimization of ways of working, leveraging on technology -if applicable- locally and potentially globally

Contribute and assist in drafting and implementing policies, providing relevant trainings to CHC teams

Spot legal trends, update CHC business teams on changes in the regulation and industry codes that might impact the local CHC business operations.

Shape the local legal environment, representing Sanofi CHC in local legal or industry Forums.

Collaborate cross-functionally within and outside the CHC GBU with other legal experts, EBI, business functions and teams in priority projects stretching beyond your local role.

KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

Internal: business partners, Legal, ethics, and Business Integrity teams within and outside the GBU at the global and local levels.

External: competent authorities, third parties -including public and private institutions-external law firms/counselors and trade associations.

About you

Education: Juris Doctor (J.D.), Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Master of Laws (LL.M.), Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.), Juris Master (J.M.), Master of Legal Studies (M.L.S.), Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.) or equivalent

You must have over 10 years of legal experience in the pharmaceutical, FMCG, Consumer Packaged

Goods or related consumer industries.

Effective communication, empathy, and persuasion skills; ability to convey legal concepts concisely to business partners.

Demonstrated ability to create legal defensive or proactive strategies

Organization skills with an eye for detail

Competent negotiator

Having sound judgment and analytical skills, maintaining high professional ethics, integrity, composure, and determination.

Adaptability to embrace a dynamic and diverse working environment

Language skills:

Possess excellent written, oral communication, and presentation skills

Cultural traits / P2W Behavior:

Push to go beyond the level we have operated until now: you should always strive to challenge the current state of things and prioritize your efforts towards achieving the best outcomes. We should not tolerate mediocrity and believe that we can always do better. Our goals should be ambitious, but never at the cost of our values and judgment.

Put the interests of the organization ahead of those of their team. Consider both short-term and long-term impacts of decisions and prioritize collective and global goals above individual or local goals. Share resources and capabilities with those who have the greatest need and impact, and enable decision-making at the appropriate level.

Act in the interest of our patients and customers: actively engage with customers to know their current and future needs; brings an external perspective into decisions

It is important to be proactive and not wait for instructions. Make smart and informed decisions based on the information available to you and consider the potential outcomes of your actions. Use your own judgment as well as advice from others to make confident and impactful choices that help us progress.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary
Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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