Senior Associate, Asia Policy

Global Counsel is seeking a Senior Associate to join the Asia practice in Singapore. The team helps global corporates, investors, and organisations, exploit growth opportunities across a wide range of markets and anticipate and manage macroeconomic, geopolitical, and country risks.

The role will be based in GC's Singapore office but travel will be required when necessary.

**Role and responsibilities**:

- Support clients across diverse sectors, with a focus on financial services, while collaborating with global offices for an integrated service.
- Monitor and analyse regulatory, political and policy developments in Asia, and draft regular update notes.
- Assist in strategic planning exercises (e.g., scenario development, horizon scanning) for clients to assess the impact of economic and geopolitical events on business continuity and supply chains.
- Develop client engagement strategies, including topical briefing packs and stakeholder mapping.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for clients, building positive client relationships and ensuring timely delivery of projects and actions.
- Contribute to business development by identifying potential clients and producing policy insights and analysis relevant to them.
- Act as an active ambassador for Global Counsel at relevant industry and policy events, and invest in developing the skills, expertise and reputation of yourself and others.

**Skills profile**:

- Ideally 3-6 years of relevant experience in a consulting firm, think tank, financial institution, government, or international/regional organisation, with a focus on international economic affairs. Some exposure to major East and Southeast Asian economies and important regional policy debates would also be considered a plus.
- Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to make inferences and draw conclusions about how political and policy developments impact businesses and investors.
- Excellent written communication skills, capable of producing clear, objective, and engaging content on complex or sensitive topics.
- Strong research skills, including data analysis and visual presentation.
- Detail-oriented, with excellent account and project management abilities, capable of handling multiple tasks effectively, and leading projects independently within tight deadlines.
- Experience using excel and macroeconomic databases would be valuable in this role.
- Fluent in English. Additional language skills are advantageous but not required.

Department

Asia

Locations

Singapore
- Contact Imogen Dunn Senior Associate, HR & Talent

**Why join**:
An opportunity to work with world-class advisers and political experts in a fast-growing firm, alongside a strong professional development program including a personal training budget.A competitive salary and bonus structure, a robust benefits package and opportunities to work from our offices across the world.A commitment to work-life balance, with flexible working, 25 days holiday allowance plus public holidays, enhanced parental leave, discretionary winter holiday office closures, and sabbaticals.

**Our commitment to diversity**:
We are committed to equal opportunities, respect and wellbeing for all staff and applicants for employment. We are committed to building a team that genuinely reflects the diversity of the places we work. We are committed to achieving a culture where there is regard for all and there is no place for discrimination and harassment of any type.

Our aim is for GC to be a company where all our colleagues have the opportunity to grow, develop, succeed and be their authentic selves whatever their sex, race, colour, class, religion, age, national origin, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, redundancy, leaves of absence, salary and training.

**About Global Counsel**:
Global Counsel brings together a team with diverse experience across the public and private sectors. Since our establishment in 2010 we have developed a wide range of services and capabilities for corporates and investors.

Global Counsel helps companies and investors across sectors to anticipate the ways in which politics, regulation and public policymaking create both risk and opportunity, and to develop and implement strategies to meet these challenges. We provide them with due diligence support to build compelling, evidence-based campaigns to engage in policy debates.

Our work is supported by high quality analytical content and collateral that is politically and economically informed and which builds quickly into executable strategy.

Our team is led by former public policymakers and political advisors with experience at the highest level of government. We have offices in London, Brussels, Washington DC, Singapore and Doha and are supported by a network of partners in other key markets.
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