Manager, Legal

The appointee will need to be comfortable as both a specialist insurance lawyer and as a relative generalist with the ability to issue spot and exercise good legal, compliance and commercial judgment for the Hong Kong business.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide commercially sensitive, pragmatic and practical legal advice to the business and corporate functions on a variety of legal, regulatory and governance related matters

• Address legal and regulatory issues arising from business transactions

• Draft and review of commercial agreements, insurance policy provisions and marketing materials etc.

• Proactively identify legal and regulatory risk in the business and provide alternative solutions to reduce or mitigate the risk while skillfully managing legal and practical business considerations

• Review consultation papers from regulatory bodies and prepare summaries

• Prepare legal memos for new legislation and regulation updates

• Work closely with business functions to ensure all legal and regulatory requirements are adhered

• Work closely with Compliance team to provide holistic support to the business

• Assist in ad-hoc compliance related projects as assigned

Job Requirements

• Hong Kong qualified Solicitor with at least 6 years’ post-qualification experience gained from private or in-house practice, preferably in insurance or financial services sector

• Knowledge of insurance products and insurance operation a plus

• Strong commercial judgment

• Good communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to manage multiple stakeholder relationship

• Ability to work in fast-paced environment

• Personal authority, integrity and ethics

• Self-starter and strong team player

• Fluent in spoken and written English and Chinese

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