Senior Legal Counsel

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.

Get to Know the Team

Grab Legal team is a group of lawyers and specialists coming from various countries all over the world, who are open minded and very supportive with managers allowing some level of independence. Our Vietnam team is currently made of 5 members who report to Regional Legal Group and are taking care of the entire Vietnam' platform and financial businesses.

Mission of our Legal team is to:

1. partner, advise and enable our business stakeholders to achieve our consumer-centric goals, spur continuous innovation and drive the business ahead;
2. advise on legal risks and possible mitigating steps to help our stakeholders form commercially sound and reasonable decisions that contribute to sustainable growth.

Get to Know the Role

You will have a key role in the management of legal and regulatory matters of Grab VN, working closely and regularly with various competencies of all levels. You will get an opportunity to work in a US listed company, interface with various law firms, and liaise with government agencies.

The ideal candidate will have experience in e-commerce, payments, finance and/or insurance legal practice, and in particular in dealing with government regulators and governance documentation based on the specific requirements of commercial, banking and financial services businesses.

You will report to Vietnam General Counsel and base in the HCMC office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

1. Oversee the financial services regulatory licensing and compliance across business units, with an emphasis on banking regulations, marketing, and consumer protection laws related to such products and services, and interacting with regulators including State Bank of Vietnam on the same.
2. Draft, advise and negotiate on commercial contracts related to company's daily business, mainly focusing on the following areas, including but not limited to, e-hailing and transportation, e-commerce & trading, enterprise and investment, merger and anti-trust, etc.
3. Daily support on legal advice and legal analysis to the Regional and Country business stakeholders on a broad range of issues such as matters relating to payment services, consumer protection, labor, litigations, safety and fraud, etc.
4. Provide legal and regulatory guidance on the products (design and modification), proactively identify associated risks and recommend mitigation strategies, review product user experiences to ensure legal compliance and proper disclosures;
5. Develop and implement draft policies, procedures, processes and guiding documents to enhance the compliance status across all businesses.
6. Represent Grab's interests and interface directly with regulatory agencies and external counsel, as appropriate;
7. Perform any other duties or projects as assigned by the Regional and/or the management.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• Attorney admitted to practice in Vietnam.
• Corporate, legal and regulatory experience in financial and/or e-commerce services in Vietnam.
• 6-10 years PQE experience, with a preferable of at least 3 years in-house counsel experience in multi-national company.
• Familiarity with the development and implementation of AML/CFT related compliance requirements;
• Having the ability and commitment to travel within and, at times on short notice, in Vietnam or in SEA.
• Having a strong legal, analytical, communication and presentation skills (commensurate with the candidate's experience);
• Having an ability to understand the business, commercial requirements, company's strategies and directions, its people and its organisational structures;
• Having awareness of legal and commercial risks as well as the ability to balance such risks against business benefits, with appropriate mitigation measures taken;
• Having an ability to work under immense pressure and with minimal supervision.
• Having an ability to do multiple tasks.

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.