Senior Legal Counsel
Atome
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Mandaluyong City
Contract type: Full time

About Atome
Atome is a leading buy now pay later brand in Asia offering consumers choice, convenience and flexibility in how they choose to shop and pay, with zero-interest payments over time. We partner over 5,000 online and offline retailers in nine markets (Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand and mainland China).
Atome, pronounced as "A-Toe-Me', stands for "Available to Me". We enable consumers' deepest passions by making products and services more accessible, affordable, and available to them--via customisable features and a smarter shopping experience. As part of the Advance Intelligence Group, an Al-driven technology company with over 1500+ employees in 12 markets worldwide, we are united by a shared vision and purpose: to Advance with Intelligence for a Better Life--for our customers, colleagues and communities.
Our culture is built on values that are core to who we are and what we stand for:
This role reports into Atome Financial Regional Head of Legal and will support our Atome Buy Now Pay Later / Lending business in the Philippines. Your day-to-day will involve commercial contracts and legal advisory work.
Key Responsibilities
Atome is a leading buy now pay later brand in Asia offering consumers choice, convenience and flexibility in how they choose to shop and pay, with zero-interest payments over time. We partner over 5,000 online and offline retailers in nine markets (Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand and mainland China).
Atome, pronounced as "A-Toe-Me', stands for "Available to Me". We enable consumers' deepest passions by making products and services more accessible, affordable, and available to them--via customisable features and a smarter shopping experience. As part of the Advance Intelligence Group, an Al-driven technology company with over 1500+ employees in 12 markets worldwide, we are united by a shared vision and purpose: to Advance with Intelligence for a Better Life--for our customers, colleagues and communities.
Our culture is built on values that are core to who we are and what we stand for:
- We foster an INNOVATION mindset
- We achieve results with EFFICIENCY and excellence
- We take pride in the QUALITY of our work
- We uphold INTEGRITY in all we do
- We embrace COLLABORATION to work across business lines and borders
This role reports into Atome Financial Regional Head of Legal and will support our Atome Buy Now Pay Later / Lending business in the Philippines. Your day-to-day will involve commercial contracts and legal advisory work.
Key Responsibilities
- Working closely within the Atome Legal team and with stakeholders in Atome business line across the SEA region
- Reviewing and negotiating merchant/partnership contracts with our Atome merchants and strategic partners
- Reviewing and negotiating agreements with any payments-associated partners, outsourced vendors and service providers
- Advising on establishment/M&A of new licenses
- Working closely with the Compliance function on licensing and regulatory matters
- Drafting any iterative changes to our template contracts necessitated by regulatory developments or new commercial or product requirements
- Supporting initiatives relating to governance within the Group
- Support Atome Financial Regional Head of Legal for any strategic initiatives
- Liaising with external counsels where required
- Staying up to date on legal developments in the Philippines and being proactive in initiating relevant action to be taken for the business
- Providing practical and commercial advice in an efficient manner to business stakeholders
- Prepare impact analysis impacting the organization to newly issued laws and regulations
- Perform pre-litigation work to minimize risks and maximize legal rights
- Around 8+ PQE from in-house or private practice
- Admitted to the Philippines bar
- Industry experience in financial services, banking, payments or fintech is a plus
- Comfortable handling commercial contract drafting and negotiation
- Adept at communicating with business stakeholders in easy-to-understand layman terms, and in multi-tasking between competing demands
- Collaborative approach with internal stakeholders
- Excited about a start-up environment and driving positive changes in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude
- Ready to adapt to changes and broaden work scope for personal and team development
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