SEC

Legal & Compliance Counsel

BITEXCO Financial Tower, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam Full time

Position Summary

• Collaborating with a team comprising of legal counsels and paralegal. Act as an individual contributor.
• Provide practical first-line legal advice and risk spotting on assigned matters, and propose mitigations; escalate non-standard or high-risk issues to the Head of Legal and Compliance
• Coordinate and claims day-to-day (facts, timelines, evidence, counsel liaison); litigation strategy and final decisions remain with the Head of Legal and Compliance.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Contract Management:

• Draft, review, and revise contracts to align with the company's legal standards, business needs, regulatory and statutory requirements.

• Draft documents, guidelines and communications for employees, customers, suppliers and vendors.
2. Compliance:
• Review and advise on all external facing documents such as marketing materials, lucky draw and contests.
• Support implementation of compliance controls, checklists, and sampling checks; assist in internal audit or regulator inspections on assigned topics.
• Supports the DPO with DPIA screenings, RoPA maintenance, data subject request handling, and privacy clauses.
3. Compliance Program Management:

• Supports the administration of the Company’s compliance program and implements assigned workstreams;
• Deliver assigned training modules (e.g., contracting basics, privacy hygiene, gifts and anti-bribery, etc.) and track completion.

• Monitor assigned regulatory developments, prepares briefings, and coordinates implementation of action items under supervision.

• Assist in conducting due diligence and compliance audits (data collection, checklists, reporting) and tracks remediation actions to closure.
4. Risk and Dispute Management:

• Prepare and review correspondence, fact chronologies, position papers, pleadings, and administrative reports on assigned matters; aligns with outside counsel where engaged.
• Provide issue-spotting and recommendations within remit; escalates strategy choices, settlement positions, or media-sensitive issues to the Head of Legal and Compliance.

• Coordinate company participation at meetings, conferences, and proceedings; attends only when expressly delegated in writing for a specific matter.

• Assists in assessing potential violations, drafts remediation options, and tracks agreed actions.
• Liaises with and manages day-to-day deliverables of appointed external counsel on assigned matters; track budgets and invoices.
5. Overall Legal Support:

• Provide legal opinions on various corporate legal issues and concerns within assigned scopes.

• Review company policies and guidelines.

• Coordinate with cross-functional inputs and external vendors for necessary documents to complete assigned matters.

• When necessary, support onsite/field activities for closings, inspections, audits, or regulatory interactions as assigned, in line with the Company policies and ethical standards.

• Keep abreast of legal developments.

• Perform such other functions or tasks as may be assigned from time to time

Skills and Qualifications

• Admitted as attorney or lawyer;
• At least 7 years as lawyer. Should have experience in law firm and as in-house counsel;
• Excellent communications skills and proficient in English (written and oral);
• Independent at work and is highly motivated;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and is resourceful;
• Possess commercial acumen;
• Logical and analytical skills;
• Able to manage external counsel;

• Proficiency in Business and Commercial Law, Contract Law, IP Law, Competition Law, Product Liability Law, Litigation;

• Working knowledge of litigation (both civil and criminal).

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