Legal Director (FinTech)

MATCHMOVE PAY; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Singapore seeks a Legal Director to provide financial regulatory legal counsel across Asia. This role involves drafting contracts, advising on compliance, and managing regulatory interactions. The ideal candidate is a qualified lawyer with 6-8 PQE, experienced in payments and regulatory law, and possesses strong communication skills. The company fosters a collaborative environment, focused on innovation and quality, and offers competitive compensation.

Benefits

Dynamic work culture

Recognition and rewards for contributions

Innovation and collaboration environment

Qualifications

• Experience in financial regulatory background, ideally in payments.
• Ability to lead and influence with executive presence.
• Strong knowledge of Singapore & Asia laws.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate contracts for regional payments.
• Provide legal advice on payment laws and regulations.
• Manage external counsel on regulatory issues.

Skills

Anti-money laundering

Data privacy

Consumer protection

Legal judgment

Communication

Education

Qualified lawyer with 6 to 8 PQE

Job description

MatchMove is one of the world’s fastest growing and most disruptive fintech companies in digital payments and next-generation banking.

MatchMove’s proprietary Banking Wallet OSTM enables 'Banking As A Service' and the capabilities of Spend, Send, LendTM within any app. The platform empowers businesses and their customers to Spend both online and offline easily and safely, via instantly issued prepaid cards on major card networks. Its Send capabilities include P2P domestic transfers, cross-border remittances, P2M and mass disbursements to global recipients. MatchMove platform further extends to Lend, where credit scores are assigned based on customers’ spending and sending patterns to offer customized lending solutions.

Envisioning a financially inclusive world as it wages war on cash, MatchMove’s solutions help enterprise clients digitize payments and give the financially underserved segments the empowerment to move their money anytime and anywhere.

MatchMove is licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and authorized by leading card networks to issue virtual and physical cards directly to users in approved jurisdictions, or anywhere else in the world with partner banks.

The company has been recognized with international awards for being a promising and an innovative organization, as well as for being a preferred employer.

MatchMove is headquartered in Singapore with offices in India, Indonesia, Vietnam and The Philippines.

Come Join Our Dynamic Team!

For more information, please visit us atwww.matchmove.com.

Job Description

MatchMove is looking to hire a Legal Director to serve as MatchMove’s financial regulatory legal counsel across multiple Asia jurisdictions to support a rapidly growing business in the region. Reporting to the CEO and COO, the incumbent will provide support on legal, regulatory and commercial advice for daily business operations and general commercial and transactional matters involving the various global payment platforms in Asia, including commercial and procurement contract negotiations, drafting and reviewing of license applications and regulatory responses in conjunction with applicable laws and regulations framework.

Job Description

• Draft and negotiate contracts for regional payments with business partners covering technical integration, information security, data processing, regulatory compliance, settlement and marketing.
• Provide strategic legal and commercial advice to our regional sales teams on payment laws, regulations, data protection, compliance and risks relating to our business.
• Partner with sales, product and compliance teams to resolve open contractual points.
• Draft and negotiate ad hoc agreements to support commercial activities (e.g. referral, exclusivity).
• Draft contract templates for new services and update existing ones to ensure compliance with new regulations.
• Represent MatchMove on various fintech/payments-related topics before regulators, banking partners and other external audiences.
• Manage and instruct external counsel on regulatory and compliance issues.
• Coordinate execution of agreements and legalization of documents with regional colleagues and counterparties.
• Assist in general legal, commercial and regulatory compliance matters, such as MAS audits/reporting and any other regulatory reporting and compliance matters.
• Work closely with multi-cultural senior management and shareholders.
• Support corporate secretary tasks and other departments to ensure compliance across the stakeholders

Qualifications

Qualified lawyer with 6 to 8 PQE with regional experience across APAC, ideally from another FinTech company with financial regulatory background, specifically in payments.

Prior experience working in major financial institution, financial services regulatory authority, or sophisticated financial services regulatory practice within a major law firm.

• Familiar with anti-money laundering, data privacy, consumer protection and anti-bribery issues.
• A commercially savvy “business enabler”, who can proactively engage various stakeholders.
• Decisive, with excellent judgment, and adept at making smart decisions when faced with ambiguity and imperfect information.
• Executive presence, ability to lead and influence, and to articulate legal issues in layman terms.
• Excellent communicator (written and verbal), with an ability to make complex regulatory concepts clear to business teams, engineers and regulators.
• Strong knowledge on Singapore & Asia laws and regulations especially in the Payment Services Act by MAS.

Additional Information

MatchMove Culture:

• To work in a fast-moving growing startup, fun and yet professional environment that recognizes and rewards individual contributions and also team success.
• To work with highly motivated and diverse people who are totally focused on winning by combining great teamwork, rapid execution and an uncompromising approach to quality and customer satisfaction.
• We strongly encourage Innovation, Collaboration, Creativity, and Initiative.

Come Join Our Dynamic Team!

Personal Data Protection Act:

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• collect and use your personal data, and to disclose such data to any third party with whom MatchMove or any of its related corporation has service arrangements, in each case for all purposes in connection with your job application, and employment with MatchMove; and
• retain your personal data for one year for consideration of future job opportunities (where applicable).