Legal Counsel

Zoho; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

TazaPay is seeking an experienced Legal Counsel to support global regulatory licensing and provide broad general counsel services across corporate, commercial, disputes, compliance, and partnerships. The role involves managing external counsel and drafting policy and governance documents while serving as a trusted advisor to multiple internal teams.

The ideal candidate has a 5–10 year background in fintech, payments, or financial services law, strong drafting skills, and the ability to

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with JD/LLB and bar admission in at least one jurisdiction.
• 5–10 years of relevant experience in fintech, payments, or financial services, and/or corporate/regulatory practice.
• Experience with financial services licensing across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience coordinating with external counsel across jurisdictions.
• Strong drafting skills for policy documents, governance frameworks, memoranda, and contracts.
• Ability to work across time zones and with international stakeholders.
• Excellent stakeholder management, supporting Compliance, Partnerships, Sales, and Business teams.
• Familiarity with privacy law, dispute resolution, and governance matters is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Support global regulatory licensing matters across jurisdictions including Singapore, the United States, Hong Kong, and Australia.
• Provide broad general counsel support across corporate, commercial, disputes, compliance, and partnerships.
• Manage external counsel relationships and draft original policy and governance documents.
• Act as a trusted internal advisor to Compliance, Partnerships, Sales, and Business teams.
• Coordinate workstreams across multiple time zones with international stakeholders.

Skills

Policy drafting

Governance documentation

Regulatory strategy

Stakeholder management

Cross-border coordination

External counsel liaison

Education

JD/LLB or equivalent

Bar admission in at least one jurisdiction

Job description

Temasek Boulevard, Singapore | Posted on 07/21/2026

TazaPay is a trade management platform for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to conduct cross-border commerce safely.

It will bring together the best technologies and financial services that are only available to the large companies today and make them accessible to the SMBs.

We are trying to address the unmet needs of millions of exporters and importers who not have access to the essential tools for doing cross-border trade such as trade protections via escrow, currency hedging and finance

Lack of trust is one of the biggest inhibitors for B2B cross border business. Buyers and sellers tend to work only with known and trusted parties thereby limiting their business opportunities. Our platform will enable access to various services for doing cross-border trade safely - such as counterparty risk assessment, trade assurance and trade protections via escrow

Our goal is to enhance trust in the trade process so that SMBs feel confident about doing more business with overseas counterparties

Our platform is cloud-based and easy to use. Our mobile and web apps simplify and digitalize every step of the process. Using our cloud-based platform, the SMBs can do more business with trusted parties in a trusted and convenient manner.

Job Description

Legal Counsel (Regulatory Licensing, Corporate Commercial & General Counsel Support)

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Legal Counsel to support our Group General Counsel across two core areas: (1) global regulatory licensing matters spanning jurisdictions that include Singapore, the United States, Hong Kong, and Australia, and (2) broad general counsel support across corporate, commercial, disputes, compliance, and partnerships matters. This is a hands-on, high-ownership role suited to a lawyer who is comfortable managing multiple external counsel relationships, drafting original policy and governance documents, and acting as a trusted internal advisor to Compliance, Partnerships, Sales, and Business teams.

The ideal candidate has commercial / corporate background or alternatively a cross-border regulatory experience (financial services / payments / fintech licensing strongly preferred), is confident in liaising directly with external law firms and regulators, and can independently manage competing workstreams across multiple time zones.

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified lawyer (JD/LLB or equivalent) with bar admission in at least one relevant jurisdiction.
• Work Authorisation: We prefer applicants who already hold a valid work pass (such as an Employment Pass or S Pass) or are Singapore Citizens/PRs. Please clearly indicate your current work authorisation status in your application.
• 5 - 10 years of relevant experience, ideally including in-house experience at a fintech, payments, or financial services company, and/or corporate / commercial or regulatory practice at a law firm.
• Demonstrated experience with financial services licensing (e.g., payment institution licences, money transmitter licences, or similar) across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience managing and coordinating with external counsel across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously.
• Strong drafting skills across policy documents, governance frameworks, memoranda, and contracts.
• Comfortable working across time zones and attending recurring calls with international stakeholders.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience supporting Compliance, Partnerships, Sales, and Business teams.
• Familiarity with privacy law, dispute resolution processes, and corporate governance matters is a plus.

Key Attributes

• High ownership mindset - comfortable driving workstreams independently with minimal oversight.
• Strong organisational skills to manage multiple concurrent regulatory and commercial workstreams.
• Clear, concise communicator able to distil complex legal/regulatory issues for non-legal stakeholders.
• Pragmatic, commercially-minded approach to legal risk.