Company Description

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.

Job Description

Get to Know the Team

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

Get to Know the Role

You will have experience in e-commerce, payments, finance or insurance legal practice, and in particular in dealing with government regulators and governance documentation based on the 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

Oversee the financial services regulatory licensing and compliance across departments, with an emphasis on banking regulations, marketing, and consumer protection laws related to such products and services, and working with regulators including State Bank of Vietnam on the same.
Draft, advise and negotiate on commercial contracts related to our daily business, focusing on the following areas, including e-hailing and transportation, e-commerce & trading, enterprise and investment, merger and anti-trust.
Daily support on legal advice and legal analysis to the Regional and Country partners on a broad range of issues such as matters relating to payment services, consumer protection, labor, litigations, safety and fraud, etc.
Provide legal and regulatory guidance on the products (design and modification), identify associated risks and recommend mitigation strategies, review product user experiences to ensure legal compliance and proper disclosures;
Develop and implement draft policies and guiding documents to enhance the compliance status across all businesses.
Represent Grab's interests and interface directly with regulatory agencies and external counsel;
Perform any other responsibilities or projects as assigned by the Regional and the management.

Qualifications

What Essential Skills You Will Need

Bachelor's degree in Law and attorney admitted to practice in Vietnam.
Corporate, legal and regulatory experience in financial and e-commerce services in Vietnam.
6+ years of experience, with a preferable of at least 3 years in-house counsel experience in multinational company.
Familiarity with the development of AML/CFT related compliance requirements;
Have commitment to travel within and on short notice, in Vietnam or in SEA
Understand the business, commercial requirements, our strategies and directions, its people and its organizational structures;
Awareness of legal and commercial risks and the ability to balance such risks against business benefits, with appropriate mitigation measures taken;

Additional Information

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.

Senior Legal Counsel