Principal Regulatory Counsel Ethics

**Date**:11 Feb 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Singapore

**Job State/Province**:Singapore

**Job Location/Region**:Marina Bay

**About BHP**

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success
- About the Role
- The Principal Regulatory Counsel will primarily provide legal advice and expertise on market conduct-related issues, including commodities trading licensing; analysis and assessment of Compliance and regulatory risks arising from BHP’s Commercial activities; and contributing to the management of the Compliance strategy and frameworks that serve to protect and enhance BHP’s reputation, manage compliance risk and contribute to social value creation.
- The role reports to the Manager Compliance Legal Anti-corruption, Trade & Regulatory and is based in Singapore.
- Lead Compliance legal advisor for market conduct and market manipulation laws, commodities trading licensing and other regulatory requirements applicable to BHP’s commodity trading activities primarily within the global Commercial function. This includes advice on conflicts of interest issues relevant to BHP employees serving as directors of BHP-owned external entities (e.g., globalCoal and globalOre).
- Lead Compliance Legal advisor for derivatives, paper trading and hedging activities conducted over key commodity exchanges and over-the-counter transactions. As necessary, provide advice on other Compliance legal risks such as state sensitive information and anti-money laundering.
- Provides advice and input on risk assessments and frameworks for compliance with commodities trading and regulatory rules to ensure that relevant risks are identified and appropriately managed.
- Supports decision making in relation to proposed commercial transactions by engaging with stakeholders, identifying compliance touchpoints, developing, advising on and assisting with risk mitigation measures.
- Leads law firm engagement for market conduct and commodities licensing regulatory issues.
- Proactively maintains up to date knowledge of developments in commodities trading and regulatory laws and other compliance-related risks including enforcement actions, regulatory guidance and public information on attempts to contravene laws and controls.
- Helps develop and deliver compliance stakeholder engagement and tailored training to raise awareness of commodities trading and regulatory risks (including directors duties training and ISDA training) and obligations and support a continuing culture of compliance, particularly within Commercial.
- Drafts, reviews and advises on contractual clauses pertaining to commodities trading regulatory risks and issues in contracts and other transaction documents.
- Manages investigations into potential breaches of market conduct rules and/or trading requirements, including engaging and managing relationships with external counsel and any relevant third parties.
- About You
- Law degree (or equivalent) with right to practise in the US, EU, UK, Singapore and/or Australia
- Minimum 8 years post admission experience (at international law firm and/or multinational corporation and/or government) with experience advising on market conduct and commodities trading regulatory compliance
- Experience working with business stakeholders internationally, up to and including senior level
- Experience delivering advice verbally and in written form
- Experience in analysing complex transactions and regulations and providing fit-for-purpose advice

**About Our Process**

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer t