Legal Associate

Be an advisor and a subject matter resource for reputation, quality and risk management matters, and provide sound, practical and timely advice to Tax & Legal (T&L) personnel in Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia.

Key responsibilities include:

• Work with Vietnam T&L Business Leader and Risk Group, Southeast Asia (SEA) T&L Quality & Risk Leader and Team to execute quality and risk plan and strategies, and where required, execution of SEA and Asia Pacific quality and risk initiatives;

• Develop and foster a consultation network and intelligent risk culture within the T&L practice in Vietnam and SEA;

• Assist to develop policy, processes, tools and templates to enable T&L professionals in Vietnam and SEA to work efficiently and effectively to deliver client engagements while maintaining compliance with reputation and risk management policies, as well as legal and regulatory requirements;

• Provide consultation on queries raised by Vietnam and SEA T&L personnel on timely manner;

• Review legal documents on daily basis such as contracts, NDA, engagement letters, bidding documents, as well as communicate with clients’ legal team and manage arising contractual risks;

• Review client and engagement acceptance and risk assessment process on daily basis;

• Conducting internal practice review, inflight reviews, spot checks on T&L personnel compliance to the internal policies.

• Tracking and monitoring of T&L personnel compliance to Firm’s policies, evaluate non-compliances under disciplinary policies and issuing warning letters;

• Deliver risk management learning programs to Vietnam and SEA T&L professionals;

• Other tasks where required, to support the T&L quality and risk program.

• A graduate in Bachelor Degree with a minimum GPA of 3 with at least 1 year of professional service experience.

• Law graduate, or experience in technology assets risk management/internal risk management/ quality risk/regulatory management department is an advantage.

• High proficiency in English (reading, writing, listening, and speaking).

• Able to work under pressure, multi-tasking and can manage tight deadlines.

• Strong communication skills, technology savvy, demonstrate strong attention to details.

• Ability to work independently and collaborate with teams across different businesses, geographies and in a cohesive team environment.

• Display high levels of energy, drive together with high standard professional ethics.

• Able to travel overseas when required.