Senior Legal Counsel

SECURITAS GROUP

Securitas is a world-leading safety and security solutions partner that helps make your world a safer place. With nine decades of deep experience means we see what others miss. By leveraging technology in partnership with our clients, combined with an innovative, holistic approach, we’re transforming the security industry. With 341 000 employees in 44 markets, we see a different world and create sustainable value for our clients by protecting what matters most - their people and assets. 

Securitas in AMEA deliver services to our 12 countries within Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific. We are headquartered in Singapore.

We are looking for ambitious Senior Legal Counsel who can join our Country Leadership Team and take lead in implementing initiatives and processes paramount for the legal department. You will be providing an in-depth and business-focused legal advice to the business. You'll serve as a function/business legal compliance risk and assist with internal strategies, policies and to prevent violations of law, rule, or regulation. In addition, you'll design and deliver a Risk Management Framework that maintains risk levels and collaborate with different departments to identify and manage potential legal risks.

Responsibilities:

• Legal:
  • Serving as an in-house Legal Counsel for the company on all legal matters and contracts and managing legal risk for the organization by taking responsibility for providing legal advice to the leadership on all legal matters affecting their departmental transactions.  
  • Rendering effective legal assistance in the preparation of legal opinions, studies, reports and correspondence, as required from time to time by the organization.
  • Assisting the departments in preparing replies to legal notices received.
  • Assigning court cases to different panel lawyers, keeping in view the nature and importance of the cases.
  • Supervising and monitoring the contesting of the cases in various courts of law and frequently interacting with Panel Lawyers, Courts and other Law Officers of Government for their assistance.
  • Supervising legal research and analysis, identifying important issues and apprising the various departments of emerging legal trends from court decision and tendering advice to avoid unnecessary litigation, etc.

• Risk & Compliance:
  
  • Developing and managing a corporate risk management strategy in line with corporate goals and objectives. 
  • Carefully assessing the risk in business decisions, prioritizing the firm's reputation and protecting clients and assets. Ensuring compliance with laws, rules, and policies, use ethical judgment in behavior and practices, and handling control issues transparently through escalation, management, and reporting.
  • Serving as primary organizational contact during contract negotiations and negotiating contracts with suppliers, partners and clients to ensure that all the contract terms are viable and mitigating any legal risk to the company.
  • Providing inputs to the Sales Team on terms and conditions for acceptance of business and identify risks. 
  • Analyzing contracts and orders received from sales for viability and legal risk while taking into account the company standards and policies. 
  • Supervising and overseeing the review, negotiation and drafting of major contracts, tender documents and other legal documents, as required by the various departments. 
  • Ensuring that contracts and proposals are properly entered into organizational databases and securely maintained. 
  • Driving training of organizational policies and compliance training to employees.
  • Being responsible for ISO functions (adherence & implementation).

• Ethics:
  
  • Being an ethics ambassador in the country and proactively influencing the company's culture within the organization. Also, acting as a point of reference for the local organization in relation to questions or concerns related to BE. 
  • Ensuring that Securitas core values are embedded within and adhered to through the organization.
  • Advising country leadership and management on local business ethics compliance matters. 
  • Driving actions in the country to implement the Securitas BE compliance program and ensuring that other relevant functions (HR, Sales, Finance, Commercial, Procurement and Communications) embed the required activities and controls into their ways of working. 
  • Working closely with the Divisional BE Compliance Officer and ensuring that local efforts align with Securitas Group requirements. 
  • Reporting to the Divisional BE Compliance Officer on a quarterly basis on the progress of such actions/efforts. 
  • Reporting compliance issues, irregularities, and violations of Securitas Values & Ethics Code or corporate policies to the BE Divisional Compliance Officer. 

Requirements

• Experience:
  • 8-10 years of corporate legal experience within a fast-paced, fast-evolving and dynamic environment.
  • Prior litigation experience is an advantage.
  • Knowledge of compliance laws, rules, regulations, risks and typologies.
  • Ability to identify and remedy complex legal issues without inviting the services of external legal advice. 
  • Demonstrated ability to lead a team and excellent communication skills. 
  • Excellent spoken and written English and local language knowledge (any other language is a plus).
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. 
  • Business acumen. 
• Education:
  • Accredited degree in Law is a must have.
  • Must be a qualified lawyer in Singapore.
  • Complementary studies related to HR or Business Studies (nice to have).
  • Coaching qualifications (nice to have).
  • Personality assessment accreditation (nice to have).

Other skills

• Team Leadership and Collaboration:
  • Promoting group morale and productivity by being clear about output expectations.
  • Delegating authority to match responsibility and holds staff accountable for agreed upon commitments.
  • Appropriately involving others in decisions and plans that affect them.
  • Making team assignments within and outside of the organization to facilitate horizontal work. 

• Analytical and Strategic Thinking:
  
  • Understanding the position in the larger world context: conveying a thorough understanding of the Organization’s opportunities and threats and identifying competitive differentiators.
  • Being able to set the right priorities. 
  • Determining the appropriate amount of influence or emphasis to use in each part of analyzing the information, taking into account the overall context.

• Negotiations and Client focus:
  • Constructively working towards a win-win solution during negotiations. 
  • Exploring creative solutions with others to overcome antagonism and to develop partnerships. 
  • Successfully leading negotiations with strong impact on one’s unit. 
  • Determining strategic direction and long-term opportunities to best meet clients' evolving needs. 
  • Monitoring, evaluating and renewing the client service model and service standards as needed.

Working conditions

Role is based in Securitas Singapore office in Singapore. It's an office-based working model.

What we offer?

At Securitas we believe in doing the right thing and doing it well. For our customers and our employees. Our employees come from all walks of life and bring with them a multitude of talents and perspectives. We aim for diverse representation throughout the company, and we are committed to equal pay, safe working conditions, gender balance and an inclusive work environment with a wide range of skills and development opportunities.

If it all sounds good to you, don’t hesitate to apply