Are you a strategic legal professional with strong commercial awareness and a passion for ensuring business integrity, regulatory compliance, and effective risk management?
LYD Bali Group is looking for an experienced Legal & Compliance Manager to oversee legal affairs, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and risk management across our diverse portfolio of hospitality, food & beverage, retail, lifestyle, and other business operations in Bali.
This role will work closely with senior management and cross-functional teams to ensure that our businesses operate in accordance with applicable Indonesian laws and regulations while supporting sustainable business growth.
Key Responsibilities
1. Legal Affairs & Corporate Governance
- Provide legal advice and practical recommendations to management on business operations, commercial transactions, and corporate matters.
- Review, draft, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements, leases, vendor contracts, partnership agreements, NDAs, and other legal documents.
- Coordinate corporate legal matters involving PT entities, including corporate documentation, licensing, and changes to corporate information in collaboration with relevant professionals and authorities.
- Maintain proper legal records, contract registers, and corporate documentation.
- Support management in developing and implementing corporate governance standards and policies.
2. Regulatory Compliance & Licensing
- Monitor and ensure compliance with applicable Indonesian laws and regulations relevant to the Group’s businesses.
- Oversee business licensing, permits, regulatory submissions, and renewal schedules in coordination with the relevant departments and external advisers.
- Coordinate compliance matters relating to employment, taxation, immigration, hospitality operations, food & beverage, retail, environmental requirements, and other applicable regulations.
- Maintain a regulatory compliance register and communicate relevant legal updates and their business implications to management.
- Coordinate regulatory inspections, audits, and correspondence with government authorities.
3. Risk Management & Legal Disputes
- Identify legal, regulatory, contractual, and operational compliance risks and recommend appropriate mitigation measures.
- Manage legal disputes, claims, and litigation matters in coordination with external legal counsel.
- Support internal investigations involving potential misconduct, fraud, contractual breaches, or regulatory non-compliance, while maintaining confidentiality and procedural fairness.
- Develop and monitor corrective action plans to address identified compliance gaps.
4. Policies, SOPs & Compliance Monitoring
- Develop, review, and update company policies, SOPs, and compliance guidelines in collaboration with relevant departments.
- Establish practical compliance monitoring mechanisms across the Group’s venues and entities.
- Conduct periodic compliance reviews and coordinate internal or external audits where required.
- Provide compliance awareness sessions and guidance to management and operational teams.
- Maintain appropriate reporting and escalation procedures for material legal and compliance issues.
5. Stakeholder & External Counsel Management
- Liaise with notaries, external legal counsel, consultants, government authorities, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Manage external legal service providers, including scope of work, deliverables, timelines, and legal expenditure.
- Prepare clear legal updates, risk assessments, and recommendations for senior management.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Law (S.H.) from a recognised university.
- Minimum 5–7 years of relevant legal experience, preferably in hospitality, F&B, retail, property, or a multi-entity corporate environment.
- Experience in Indonesian corporate law, commercial contracts, business licensing, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance.
- Strong understanding of Indonesian legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to business operations.
- Experience managing legal risks, regulatory matters, external counsel, and contractual negotiations.
- Professional proficiency in Bahasa Indonesia and good working proficiency in English.
- Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- High integrity, attention to detail, discretion, and the ability to manage confidential information.
- Ability to work independently, prioritise competing demands, and collaborate effectively with senior management and operational teams.
Preferred qualifications:
- Advocate licence or relevant professional legal credentials, where applicable to the role.
- Experience supporting multiple Indonesian PT entities and working with notaries and government authorities.
- Experience establishing compliance registers, risk matrices, contract management systems, and internal control frameworks.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to contribute to a diverse and growing Bali-based business group.
- Exposure to multi-entity corporate governance and a broad range of commercial and operational legal matters.
- Direct collaboration with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
- A dynamic, collaborative, and entrepreneurial working environment.
- Opportunities to strengthen the Group’s legal and compliance framework while supporting responsible business growth.