Contracts & Compliance Specialist

LINKTRIX Consultants, Asia Pacific; Selangor; On-site; MYR 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the Asia Pacific seeks a Legal Consultant with strong skills in contract drafting and compliance management. This role entails managing contracts, onboarding of clients, and ensuring compliance with legal requirements, providing an opportunity to develop your legal expertise in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 4-5 years working experience in the legal industry.
• Experience in corporate law or in-house legal capacities.
• Fluent in spoken and written English.

Responsibilities

• Drafting and negotiating various contracts.
• Managing onboarding of new customers and vendors.
• Overseeing corporate secretarial matters and regulatory filings.

Skills

Contract Drafting

Negotiation

Compliance

KYC Reviews

Education

Degree in Law

Job description

Purpose of the position:

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various contracts (e.g. customer contracts, vendor contracts).
• Manage onboarding of new customers and vendors including conducting KYC and sanction searches and reviewing results.
• Manage corporate secretarial matters (e.g. drafting of board resolutions, manage regulatory filings)
• Filing and organizing legal documents.

Responsibilities:

Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating various contracts

• Be familiar with basic contract law positions and requirements in South-East Asia.
• Understand the company’s contracting policies and draft/review/negotiate contracts accordingly.
• Update contract templates where necessary (e.g. to account for new regulations).

Manage onboarding of new customers and vendors

• First cut review of onboarding documentation submitted by counterparties.
• Manage onboarding of new customers and vendors.
• Review results and escalating or requesting for additional information where necessary.
• Preparing KYC/Due Diligence reports for internal records.
• Keep up-to-date with applicable sanctions and ensure company’s dealings with customer and vendors comply with applicable sanctions.

Manage corporate secretarial matters

• Draft board resolutions.
• Keep track of, and comply with, regulatory filing requirements.
• Keep up-to-date internal records.

Filing and organizing legal documents

• Ensuring files obtained from websites and counterparties are renamed in line with internal convention to ensure easy retrieval.
• Organizing of folders and filing of documents to ensure easy retrieval.

Learning Opportunities:

• Develop strong contract review, sanctions, and compliance skillsets.

Requirements:

• Degree in Law.
• 4-5 years working experience in the legal industry.
• Experience working in the corporate department of a law firm, or has experience reviewing contracts in an in-house legal capacity.
• Fluent in both spoken and written English.
• Meticulous and extremely organized.
• Willing to learn.

Preferred:

• Fluent in a second South-East Asian language (e.g. Bahasa, Chinese, Thai etc...)
• A team player with initiative and good interpersonal skills.
• Time management skill.
• Able to work and learn independently.