Assistant Manager - Legal

Prudential Services Asia; Taguig; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Prudential Services Asia is seeking a legal professional to support the Legal and Corporate Governance requirements of the Company and its subsidiaries in the Philippines. The role involves providing legal advice to business units on day‑to‑day operations, drafting and negotiating contracts, managing regulatory filings, and ensuring compliance with internal policies.

You will monitor compliance standards, improve legal workflows, and prepare reports for regional and group offices.

Qualifications

• Provides legal advice to business units on day‑to‑day operational, commercial, and regulatory matters.
• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates contracts, agreements, and legal documents within prescribed turnaround times.
• Identifies legal risks and proposes practical risk‑mitigating solutions aligned with Company policies.

Responsibilities

• Handles function‑relevant regulatory filings for the Company and its subsidiaries.
• Monitors and implements policies, standards or guidelines owned by the Legal Department.
• Maintains an organized system for contract and legal document safekeeping and retrieval.
• Supports improvements to legal workflows, templates, and turnaround times.
• Prepares function‑relevant reports for regional and group offices and the Company.
• Liaises with government offices and other competent authorities as required.
• Provides support for corporate governance and secretarial matters, including board materials and minutes.

Skills

Legal advice

Contract drafting

Contract negotiation

Regulatory compliance

Risk management

Liaison with authorities

Corporate governance

Education

Bachelor of Laws / Juris Doctor

Job description

Prudential’s purpose is to be partners for every life and protectors for every future. Our purpose encourages everything we do by creating a culture in which diversity is celebrated and inclusion assured, for our people, customers, and partners. We provide a platform for our people to do their best work and make an impact to the business, and we support our people’s career ambitions. We pledge to make Prudential a place where you can Connect, Grow, and Succeed.

The job provides support in addressing the Legal and Corporate Governance requirements of the Company and its subsidiary/ies.

• Provides legal advice to business units on day‑to‑day operational, commercial, and regulatory matters, or in relation to special projects or strategic initiatives
• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates contracts, agreements, and legal documents within prescribed turnaround times
• Identifies legal risks and proposes practical risk‑mitigating solutions aligned with Company policies
• Handles the function‑relevant regulatory filings of the Company and its subsidiaries
• Properly monitors and/or implements policies, standards or guidelines owned by the Legal Department (eg. Information Sharing and Securities Dealing, Competition Law)
• Maintains an organized system for contract and legal document safekeeping, tracking, and retrieval while ensuring completeness and accuracy of legal records and contract databases
• Supports and implements improvements to legal workflows, templates, and turnaround processes
• Prepares the function‑relevant reports required by the regional and group offices and the Company
• Liaises with relevant government offices and other competent authorities as may be required
• Provides support for corporate governance and corporate secretarial matters, when assigned, including assistance in the preparation of board and board committee materials, coordination of meetings of the Board, Board Committees, and shareholders, and drafting of minutes and secretary’s certificates.

Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensures that all function‑related compliance matters are identified and openly and honestly reported to the Line Manager and/or the Compliance Officer in accordance with the reporting requirements operated within the work unit and the Company.
• Ensures adherence with all relevant statutory, compliance, risk management and audit standards and requirements in carrying out his or her functions.
• Provides such other legal services as may from time to time by required by his or her Line Manager and/or the SVP & Chief Legal, Government Relations and Sustainability Officer

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. We provide equality of opportunity of benefits for all who apply and who perform work for our organisation irrespective of sex, race, age, ethnic origin, educational, social and cultural background, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, disability or part‑time / fixed‑term work, or any other status protected by applicable law. We encourage the same standards from our recruitment and third‑party suppliers taking into account the context of grade, job and location. We also allow for reasonable adjustments to support people with individual physical or mental health requirements.

We are Prudential. For every life, we are partners. For every future, we are protectors. Prudential plc provides life and health insurance and asset management to 17 million customers across 20 markets in Asia and Africa. We are headquartered in Hong Kong and have dual primary listings on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the London Stock Exchange. We are focused on four strategic regions: Greater China, ASEAN, India and Africa. Our customers are served by around 55,000 agents and more than 200 bank partners. Prudential plc is not affiliated in any manner with Prudential Financial, Inc., a company whose principal place of business is in the United States of America or with the Prudential Assurance Company, a subsidiary of M&G plc, a company incorporated in the United Kingdom. Find out more at www.prudentialplc.com Follow us on LinkedIn