Legal and Compliance Associate

1 year exp

**Roles & Responsibilities**

**Are you ready for a legal and compliance career with a global financial firm? Join Orient Futures Singapore as a Legal and Compliance Associate now.**

Our business philosophy is continual innovation to stay ahead and relevant to provide premium brokerage services to all clients. In tapping on financial technology, we digitalize and automate processes (from front office to back end) to provide customer experiences that are a step up from our competitors. While we strive towards empowering our clients to trade smarter through technology, we believe employees are our greatest assets and that the company's growth is attributed to the commitment of every team member.

**As a Legal and Compliance Associate, you will be part of the Legal and Compliance team managing legal, regulatory compliance and corporate secretarial matters for Orient Futures Singapore including but not limited to the following**:

- Provide support and advice to all internal stakeholders on legal and compliance matters;
- Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a variety of commercial agreements including third party agreements, services agreements, IT procurement, employment, consultancy agreements, and transaction-related agreements;
- Manage and maintain company policies, procedures, and standards related to legal and compliance matters;
- Maintain the compliance plan to monitor compliance with internal policies, and external legislation and regulations
- Track and perform impact assessments on legal and regulatory changes in Singapore and provide regulatory updates to affected business units;
- Conduct internal compliance reviews and assessments and prepare regular compliance reports to management;
- Analyse and review trade surveillance reports;
- Draft and file correspondences with the regulator and exchanges;
- Coordinate, draft, maintain, and assist with corporate secretarial matters such as the company’s constitution, board resolutions, and annual regulatory filings; and
- Work with external counsels and consultants on legal and compliance matters (where necessary).
**Qualifications and Experience**
- Degree from a recognised university or relevant legal or compliance professional qualifications.
- Admission to the Bar in at least one legal jurisdiction would be an added advantage.
- Prior experience in regulatory compliance roles within the financial services industry would be an added advantage.
- Bilingual in English and Mandarin.
- Ability to work independently under pressure with attention to detail

Orient Futures International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. has been set up to spearhead Orient Futures’ internationalisation initiatives to provide brokerage services to a suite of capital markets products including Exchange Traded Derivatives, OTC Derivatives and Leverage Foreign Exchange trading. Singapore is the beginning of Orient Futures’ internationalization road map. It's strategy is to extend the presence eventually into London, USA and other parts of Asia. Orient Futures also has the intention to extend its services into asset management in the near future to complete the full suite of capital market services Orient Futures can provide.

It’s business philosophy and strategy is to tap on technology innovation to stay ahead and continue to be relevant on how brokerage services are provided going ahead. It will digitalize and automate front to back processes to provide new customers experiences and differentiate from our competitors.

The company strives towards innovation and build its dreams with strong core values. Employees are it's greatest assets. The growth and increase in value of the company are contributed by the effort and commitment from every employee.