Senior Legal Counsel

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Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, MYS
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Serve as primary in-house legal counsel for product team, structuring and launching financing, credit, and investment products. Draft, review, and negotiate product documentation; build template libraries and legal playbooks; support product risk assessments, approvals, policies, and audits; advise on banking, securities, and regulatory developments; and manage external counsel.
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Role Overview

We are a pioneering, licensed Malaysian digital bank in our foundational phase of operations, scaling rapidly across retail and non-retail segments with a mandate to serve Malaysia's unserved and underserved communities.  In this role, you will serve as the primary in-house legal counsel to our Products team on the structuring and launch of financing, credit, and investment products.

Responsibilities:

  • Advise on legal concepts relevant to financing, credit, investment, and wealth products, including standard and discretionary loans and investment mandates.

  • Review, draft, and negotiate product-related legal documentation, including facility agreements, security instruments, investment contracts, terms and conditions, and customer-facing disclosure.

  • Develop and maintain a library of product agreement templates and legal playbooks aligned to the bank's product suite.

  • Support cross-functional teams in preparing product risk assessments, pre-launch legal checklists, product approval documentation, and relevant internal policy and SOPs.

  • Provide legal QA support for internal and regulatory audits, including gap identification and remediation advice.

  • Advise on applicable banking, securities, and financial services laws and regulations, and proactively flag regulatory developments affecting the product pipeline.

  • Engage and manage external counsel where specialist or contentious legal support is required.

  • Collaborate and work with other legal team members on other general assignments, projects, or general contract/documents review (outside of loans and wealth product scope).

 

Requirements

  • Admitted to the Malaysian Bar or equivalent professional qualification.

  • Minimum 5 years PQE with experience in banking and securities law practice areas (whether gained in private practice, in-house, or both).

  • Demonstrable experience advising on financial products, lending practices, or investment and wealth products.

  • Working knowledge of applicable banking and securities legislation and regulatory frameworks in a tech environment.

  • Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into actionable product guidance for non-legal stakeholders.

  • Ability to manage multiple product workstreams.

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Skills Required

  • Admitted to the Malaysian Bar or equivalent professional qualification
  • Minimum 5 years PQE with experience in banking and securities law practice areas
  • Demonstrable experience advising on financial products, lending practices, or investment and wealth products
  • Working knowledge of applicable banking and securities legislation and regulatory frameworks in a tech environment
  • Ability to translate complex legal and regulatory requirements into actionable product guidance for non-legal stakeholders
  • Ability to manage multiple product workstreams
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The Company
HQ: Kuala Lumpur
283 Employees

What We Do

We are Ryt Bank, the World’s First AI-Powered Bank, fully licensed by Bank Negara Malaysia and the Ministry of Finance, and a member of PIDM. Backed by YTL Digital Capital Sdn Bhd with Sea Limited as shareholder, we bring together decades of experience and digital innovation to reimagine what banking should be: smarter, simpler, and built entirely around you. The future of banking is here, and it’s done right. ? Ryt Bank is now available on the App Store and Google Play.

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