Job Description

The purpose of this role is to provide legal support to the AXA GO teams in Asia on all legal matters and to render quality and timely legal advice and services to various business units to ensure compliance of AXA GO with local laws & regulations (pertaining to the location of AXA GO Asia legal entities operating in Asia) and regional office standards and requirements.

Design responsive solutions and manage legal risks to help AXA GO achieve its goals.

Key Accountabilities

The key accountabilities are to: provide legal advice to business; represent AXA with interactions / liaison with government agencies and regulators; conduct contract review for IT and non IT products and services; ensure corporate secretary is properly performed in all AXA GO entities in Asia.

This role is accountable for management of legal advice to AXA GO senior stakeholders across the region and is the custodian of Company archive of contracts, regulatory filings and government approvals.

Key Responsibilities * Provision of legal advice to business units

• Provide legal advice on legal and concerns to come up with responsive resolutions
• Provide timely and quality advice to IT, Finance, Procurement and other internal customers
• Compliance of correspondences, articles, contracts and other documents of the company with legal and business requirements

• Interactions / liaison with government agencies

• Represent the Company in dealings with government agencies
• Regulatory filings
• Filings of statutory obligations for AXA GO in MY, SG, ID

• Contracts' review (IT and non-IT)

• Review third-party contracts (in English) and amend as required to ensure compliance with AXA internal risk controls & best practice - using standard templates as a guide
• Review third-party contracts (in English) and amend as required to ensure alignment to best commercial practice to protect AXA fiduciary position now and in the future
• Review internal managed service agreements (MSA) and ensure compliance with best commercial practice, risk controls and local country laws and regulations
• Participate to community meetings, foster harmonization of practices among GO entities and collaborate with other GO Legal Counsels to improve the processes
• Custodianship of Company archive

• Administer the maintenance of legal documents and department's e-Library
• Manage company litigation

• Provide legal advice on issues arising from actual or anticipated lawsuits
• Analyze litigation cases handled by external counsel at key stages to guide management on the proper course of action to take
• Represent the Company or its officials in various legal proceedings
• Perform proper management of legal cases including cost- effectiveness
• Mitigate legal risks
• Implement best practices in Corporate Governance and manage Corporate Secretarial Work

• Ensure all corporate governance responsibilities are completed for the board and stockholders' meetings, certificates of approved resolutions, and other corporate document.

• University graduate, Law Degree
• ITIL Software Management (or equivalent)

• 8+ years of professional experience in business law and litigation practice, especially relating to corporate law, contract law, intellectual property, information technology
• Experience in managing large vendor contracts ~USD + 2M
• Experience in managing intragroup contracts
• Experience with large contract implementations
• Experience in managing outsourced and/or offshore vendors
• Excellent verbal and written English communication and presentation skills with previous experience
• Excellent inter-personal and negotiation skills
• ITIL certified
• Insurance experience preferred