We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Legal and Compliance Officer to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting legal and compliance operations. This role requires excellent communication skills in English, as you will be working in a multicultural environment.
The Legal and Compliance Officer reports directly to the Head of Legal. As this will be one of the first hires for the Company in the Philippines, the candidate will need to be driven, entrepreneurial, and able to work autonomously.
Legal and Compliance
- Assume the Data Protection Officer (DPO) position.
- Ensure compliance with Philippine financial regulations, including SEC, NPC, AMLC, BIR and LGU requirements.
- Record and monitor any deadlines for legal documents submission to the relevant authorities.
- Develop and implement compliance policies and procedures in line with local laws.
- Maintain and update database of company's documents, licenses, permits and letters to enable easier reference for tracking systems.
- Monitor regulatory developments and assess their impact on the company.
- Prepare and submit regulatory reports, licenses, and filings.
- Conduct internal compliance audits and risk assessments.
- Provide compliance training and awareness programs for employees.
Risk Management
- Identify legal and regulatory risks and develop mitigation strategies.
- Support anti-money laundering (AML) and data privacy compliance initiatives.
- Ensure adherence to consumer protection laws in lending and financial services.
Legal Support
- Draft, review, and negotiate contracts, agreements, and legal documents.
- Commence documents' filing to organize and maintain paper and electronic filing systems in accordance with recognized procedures and standards.
- Maintain and update database of company's documents, licenses, permits and letters to enable easier reference for tracking systems.
- Provide administrative support including document's scanning and delivery to other parties.
- Support corporate governance, including board resolutions and shareholder agreements.
- Coordinate logistics for meetings, documents signing, project closing and coordinate with other division for signing purpose and provision of legal documents as required.
- Coordinate or liaising with legal related vendors or third parties (as necessary) to perform any legal related matters which sub-contracted to other parties.
- Record and monitor any deadlines for legal documents submission to the relevant authorities.
- Prepare, create, format, or edit legal related documents and perform documents' translation as necessary.
- Review and proofread documents and correspondence to ensure accuracy.
- Collect and retrieve relevant information from file as needed as well as interpreting a standard legal documents.
- Ensure efficient and effective administrative information and assistance.
- Provide general support to the legal team.
- Provide legal administrative support.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Law, Legal Management, or a related field.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in legal, compliance or regulatory roles preferably in fintech, banking, or financial services.(held DPO position in a fintech company or previously an NPC employee, preferred)
- Having a strong planning, administrative and organizational skills as well as systematic knowledge of databases and tracking systems.
- Strong knowledge of Philippine corporate, financial, and data privacy laws.
- Familiarity with SEC, AML, NPC and consumer protection regulations.
- Excellent skills in practicing information collection and documents management.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Great attention to the accuracy and detail-oriented.
- Able to adapt with the dynamic environment and any changing of priorities and demands.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, Power point and any type of google documents/sheets.
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