Legal

Company Description

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

We are a forward-looking regulatory legal & compliance team that prevents, detects and mitigates regulatory risk across Grab Financial Group, while strengthening the culture of compliance. As a fast-growing FinTech organization, we prize a partnership mindset and help deliver commercial goals while ensuring no compromises in our role as the second line of defense.

Get to Know the Role

You will report into assist General Counsel & Country Compliance manager (GrabFin Thailand) and driving legal and regulatory compliance functions for several financial businesses in Thailand (including payment, lending and insurance).

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

Regulatory Compliance Advisory:

• You will render regulatory compliance advice on all aspects of compliance, including BOT, AML, OIC, outsourcing, business continuity, and mandatory reporting requirements.
• You will support regulatory and scheme licensing efforts, including ensuring all required documentation, policies and reports are following regulatory and scheme expectations.
• You will help develop the country compliance program. This program includes Compliance policies, regulatory documentation, training logs, and related procedures. You will also maintain and implement this program for all assigned jurisdictions.
• You will work with operations and product teams to ensure enhancements in compliance processes are followed and play a driving role to implement system changes; and
• You will assist our MLRO on daily compliance matters.

Monitor, Controls and Governance:

• You will help conduct compliance risk assessments and developing plans to address regulatory gaps and lead remediation efforts.
• You will be responsible for regulatory reporting
• You will support external and internal audits
• You will support efforts in enhancing the incident reporting framework about Compliance breaches.
• You will coordinate with teams to implement risk mitigation strategies in main areas such as personal data protection, transaction monitoring, business continuity, and information security.
• You will update partners regarding important compliance risks. Help draft periodic reports/presentations to regulatory bodies and senior management forums.
• You will assist to identify potential/actual AML or regulatory risk issues such as the drafting of suspicious transaction reports, building on AML training programs, and the AML onboarding of different complex organizations.
• You will lead government relations activities to deepen ties with financial regulators and central banks.
• You will provide compliance training to staff on a periodic basis.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• You have minimum 1 - 3 years relevant experience in a financial institution, financial regulator, FinTech company or audit firm in assuming legal, compliance, or risk management.
• Bachelor Degree in Law is preferred.
• You have legal analytical and risk assessment skills and the ability to extract insights.
• You demonstrated willingness to "get hands dirty" to face with any challenges
• You can work independently and yet still be team-oriented.
• You have excellent written and communication skill in English
• You have a high ownership/responsibility on the assigned works
• You can apply a legal, practical and commercially sensitive mindset in developing creative solutions.

Additional Information

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For at Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.