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You will be based in any of these locations (Vietnam/Indonesia/Phillipines/India), but will have multi-regional responsibility by supporting the Southeast Asia region and India. As Regulatory Counsel, you’ll be responsible for navigating and communicating the legal and regulatory landscape across select Southeast Asian jurisdictions and India, with a focus on driving business success while ensuring compliance. Leveraging your expertise, you'll play a pivotal role in enabling Airwallex’s product launches and market expansions, ensuring frameworks and policies keep pace with regulatory developments, and championing best practices internally and externally.
Job Responsibility:
Advising on all regulatory legal issues relating to select Southeast Asian jurisdictions and India
Monitor, report, and influence trends and developments of regulatory issues
Partner closely with Product Legal, Regulatory Compliance, Risk and Financial Crime Compliance teams
Support local and global Product, Strategy, and Management teams and regional Commercial teams on new market entry and expansion of regulatory licences
Liaise with senior Airwallex stakeholders globally
Manage external legal counsel and consultants
Leverage AI and other tooling to enhance the scale, efficiency and effectiveness of the Regulatory Legal team
Provide legal advice on Airwallex’s obligations with respect to regulatory reportings and submissions
Support government relations outreach to legislators and regulatory agencies
Requirements:
Qualified lawyer with at least 6-8 years of relevant experience
Strong regulatory experience gained in the fintech industry, reputable law firms and/or financial institutions
Deep experience and demonstrated success advising on regulatory matters and handling regulatory submissions, filings, and regulatory strategy
Sound working knowledge of the financial services regulatory environment, particularly as relates to payments or card issuing, in one or more Southeast Asian jurisdictions and/or India
Experience supporting expansion into new markets and launching new regulatory licences in the fintech, payments, or financial services sectors will be advantageous
Strong stakeholder management skills
Proactive, results-driven, and ownership-oriented
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Collaborative team player
Experience using, deploying or developing RegTech, LegalTech or AI tools to enhance the legal function is ideal but not mandatory
Nice to have:
A mix of private practice and in-house experience
Experience in dealing with State Bank of Vietnam, Bank of Thailand, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and/or Reserve Bank of India is especially valuable
Experience using, deploying or developing RegTech, LegalTech or AI tools to enhance the legal function