Legal Officer

GoTo Group; Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; On-site; IDR 300.000.000 - 400.000.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in Indonesia is seeking a Senior Legal Officer to ensure compliance with legal standards and provide comprehensive legal services. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of law experience, strong communication skills, and proficiency in both English and Indonesian. You will support various legal matters, draft and review agreements, and liaise with external stakeholders, all within a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Professional development sessions

Team bonding activities

Recognition as a top legal team

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in law, mix of law firm and in-house experience.
• Experience in Information Technology and Fintech is an advantage.
• Advanced spoken and written English and Indonesian skills.

Responsibilities

• Support and supervise legal matters across products.
• Provide legal services including drafting and reviewing agreements.
• Liaise with external authorities and stakeholders.

Skills

Legal advisory and analysis

Communication skills

Ability to multitask

Pro-active approach

Education

Bachelor of Law degree

Job description

About the Role

The Senior Legal Officer is responsible for ensuring that the company operates according to the highest ethical, legal, and compliance standards. The candidate shall have a strong foundation in law, in supporting GoTo Financial cross products with a keen eye for detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment by ensuring that the best possible service can be offered to the stakeholders by adopting a customer‑oriented attitude by guiding stakeholders and offering them the most appropriate solution and excellent services.

Stay informed about professional knowledge and technical skills in legal and product areas to maximize the professional knowledge and to apply it within the organization in the best possible manner. The key area of focus is to make first‑class know‑how easily available to the legal team and to the organization with the aim of increasing the quality, consistency and/or cost‑effectiveness of the advice that it gives to the stakeholders.

What You Will Do

• Supporting and supervising the relevant legal matter across products in GoTo Financial;
• Provide legal services, including advisory, agreement drafting, agreement reviewing, negotiating, legal analysis and research in relation to legal related;
• Liaising with external such as, notary, law firm, court and or other authorities;
• Any other ad‑hoc duties that may be required.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor of Law degree.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in the field of law, mix of law firm and in‑house experience. Have experience in Information Technology and Fintech is an advantage.
• Advanced level of spoken and written both in English and Indonesian language.
• Ability to work by self‑initiating and takes a pro‑active approach towards projects; seeks direction and advice as needed but also prepared to take ownership and cooperate with different teams, as well in remote settings.
• Ability to multitask and adapt to work in a fast‑paced team environment.
• Well‑developed communication skills (including oral, written and interpersonal skills) and the ability to liaise and negotiate in a variety of contexts, include builds credibility and strong relationships with stakeholders and counterparts.

About the Team

The GoTo Financial Legal team is part of the Legal & Regulatory Governance Division in GoTo Financial which is a combination of Legal, Corporate Affair, Public Policy & Government Related, Anti money laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT). GoTo Financial Legal and IT GRC is also heavily in collaboration with the larger GoTo Group Legal team. The gist of our role is to support the internal stakeholders efforts to scale GoTo’s Group business operations whilst managing legal risks appropriately. GoTo Financial legal team working closely with the Business, Product, and various functional teams across the organization, we act as a strategic partner to GoTo Group.

GoTo Financial legal focus will be mainly on the payments, lending business in GoTo Financial (i.e. , payment gateway, e‑money, e‑wallet, multi finance, P2P lending, and merchant services), digital identity, Information technology and Artificial Intelligence, strategic deals, partnerships, data protection & privacy, intellectual property, antitrust/competition law, among other domains.

It’s no secret that we take our duties seriously as a team. We were also awarded the Asian Legal Business Indonesia In House Team Of The Year for 4 consecutive years from 2019 to 2023 - major milestones for our legal family. What drives us is our shared goal to provide the best deliverables to our internal clients, and keep pushing our collective bar higher. As a team, we’re concerned not only with the growth of the company, but each other’s professional growth and well‑being, too. We have regular professional development sessions to help improve the legal acumen of our members, and also take the time to bond.