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About the Role

Lead Sokin’s legal support across the APAC region, focusing on regulatory matters, licensing, and commercial advisory. Serve as a key legal partner to regional leadership and stakeholders, managing legal and regulatory risks while supporting business growth in a fast-moving payments environment.

Responsibilities

Lead legal support for Sokin’s activities across the APAC region, ensuring alignment with business priorities and applicable local legal and regulatory requirements.
Act as a trusted legal advisor to regional leadership on commercial contracts, product and distribution arrangements, regulatory developments, data protection/privacy, intellectual property, disputes, and corporate governance.
Partner closely with Compliance, Risk, Product and Commercial teams to support regional launches, new initiatives and ongoing operations.
Provide practical, commercially focused legal guidance that enables growth while protecting the organisation’s interests.
Manage relationships with external counsel across APAC jurisdictions, ensuring timely, high-quality and cost-effective legal support.
Support Sokin’s legal strategy in relation to licensing and regulated activities across the APAC, working closely with Compliance and business leadership.
Lead or support the legal workstream for licensing applications, regulatory approvals, renewals, ongoing reporting obligations, and change management processes.
Advise on legal and regulatory considerations connected with market entry, business expansions, new products and operational change.
Support responses to regulatory queries, supervisory engagement, audits and reviews.
Help shape and maintain governance frameworks, policies, legal documentation and controls that support regulatory obligations and sound risk management.
Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including customer terms, supplier contracts, partnership agreements, referral arrangements, technology contracts and other strategic commercial documentation.
Support commercial and operational teams on day-to-day legal matters arising from customer relationships, third-party arrangements and regional business activity.
Provide legal support for strategic partnerships, distribution arrangements, outsourcing and vendor onboarding.
Help drive standardisation of contract terms and legal approaches where appropriate to support efficiency and scalability.
Establish and evolve a fit-for-purpose legal operating model for the APAC region, including templates, playbooks, approval processes, governance materials and training for internal teams.
Contribute to the development of a scalable legal framework that supports both current operations and future regional growth.
Assess resource needs and contribute to building a high-performing regional legal capability.

Requirements

Qualified lawyer with strong post-qualification experience, ideally gained in-house and with relevant exposure to fintech, payments, financial services, or another regulated environment.
Significant experience advising on regulatory and licensing matters in one or more APAC markets, ideally within payments, fintech or broader financial services.
Strong experience providing general commercial legal support in a fast-paced business, including drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements.
Experience partnering closely with Compliance and Risk teams and supporting engagement with regulators, external counsel and internal stakeholders.
Strong understanding of legal issues relevant to regulated financial services businesses in the APAC region.
Proven ability to simplify complex legal issues and provide pragmatic, business-oriented advice to senior stakeholders.
Experience building or improving legal processes, templates, playbooks and governance structures in a scaling business.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to operate effectively across multiple jurisdictions and functions.
Candidates must have the right to work in the jurisdiction they are looking to work in.

Skills

Fintech
Payments
Financial Services
Regulatory Law
Licensing
Commercial Contracts
Data Protection
Privacy Law
Intellectual Property
Corporate Governance
Risk Management
Stakeholder Management
Communication

Location

Singapore
Sydney

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Head of Legal
Senior

Education Level

Qualified Lawyer

About the Company

Sokin is a next-generation B2B financial services provider, enabling businesses to make and receive global payments with greater speed, lower cost, and total transparency.
Our mission is simple: we’re simplifying global business - so businesses thrive wherever they choose to grow.
We deliver services across: Global payments and receivables, Foreign Exchange (FX), Treasury management, Finance reconciliations.
We are rapidly expanding, with established presence in EMEA, APAC, and North America.
Backed by a strong global infrastructure and industry-leading partners, we are redefining how businesses move money worldwide.
Our clients span industries from sports and entertainment to logistics and travel, and our community is growing rapidly.
As we continue to expand, we’re building a team of exceptional people who share our ambition to transform the future of global payments.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunities employer committed to creating an inclusive work environment.
As a growing global startup, we value agility and flexibility in our working culture.
If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know.