Position Summary
The Head of Legal & Compliance is responsible for leading the Company's legal, compliance, and corporate governance functions, ensuring adherence to applicable laws, regulations, and industry best practices. This is a hands-on role that combines legal advisory, regulatory compliance, and company secretarial oversight while partnering closely with senior management to support business growth and manage legal and regulatory risks.
Key Responsibilities
Legal & Compliance
- Lead the development, implementation, and continuous enhancement of the Company's legal and compliance framework, policies, procedures, and internal controls.
- Review and strengthen existing compliance programmes, including Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) frameworks.
- Serve as the primary liaison with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and manage all regulatory communications, submissions, inspections, and enquiries.
- Monitor regulatory developments and advise management on legal and compliance implications.
- Conduct compliance monitoring, risk assessments, internal reviews, and control testing to ensure ongoing regulatory compliance.
- Coordinate and support internal and external audits, regulatory inspections, and remediation efforts.
- Develop and deliver compliance awareness and training programmes across the organisation.
Legal Advisory &Corporate Governance
- Provide practical and commercially focused legal advice to management and business units.
- Draft, review, negotiate, and approve a broad range of commercial agreements, contracts, board resolutions, and other legal documentation.
- Serve as Company Secretary or oversee outsourced company secretarial functions, ensuring compliance with statutory and corporate governance requirements.
- Maintain legal, compliance, and governance documentation required for regulatory reviews and audits.
- Lead the digitalisation and automation of legal and compliance records to improve operational efficiency, governance, and regulatory compliance.
Leadership &Stakeholder Management
- Lead the Legal & Compliance function while remaining actively involved in day-to-day legal matters, regulatory issues, escalations, and operational challenges.
- Build strong working relationships with regulators, external legal counsel, auditors, business partners, and internal stakeholders.
- Promote a culture of integrity, accountability, and compliance across the organisation.
- Support senior management with practical legal and compliance solutions that enable business objectives while managing regulatory risk.
Qualifications &Experience
- Bachelor's degree in law and admission to practice in Singapore or another common law jurisdiction preferred.
- 5-10 years of relevant post-qualification experience, preferably as an in-house legal counsel within a financial institution, fintech, payment services, or other MAS-regulated environment.
- Demonstrated experience in commercial contracting, corporate governance, regulatory compliance, and legal risk management.
- Strong working knowledge of MAS regulations, AML/CFT requirements, KYC frameworks, and corporate governance practices.
- Experience serving as Company Secretary or overseeing corporate secretarial matters is an advantage.
Key Competencies
- Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credibility across all levels of the organisation.
- Strong commercial acumen with the ability to provide practical, business-oriented legal advice.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Hands-on leader who leads by example and actively supports the team through complex legal and regulatory matters.
- Demonstrates composure and sound judgment under pressure, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and deliver pragmatic solutions.
- High integrity, professionalism, and attention to detail.
- Able to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Location: 1A International Business Park
Hours: 10am to 7pm
Salary: $15K (over 12mths)
Interest applicants, pls email updated resume to [Confidential Information]
Jessie Hoe Huey Miin
CEI Reg No. R1103861
EA Lic: 99C4599
