Additional Information
We're looking for people to join the Access family, who share our passion for believing in better, and who will help us continue to grow.
Love Work. Love Life. Be You. - is central to our success and how we give our customers the freedom to do more of what's important to them.
What does Access offer you?
We offer a blended approach to office working, encouraging you to collaborate and connect in one of our thriving offices. We deliver on what we say, taking the development of our people seriously. We'll work with you to progress your success plan and provide opportunities to accelerate your career.
On top of a competitive salary, our wellbeing days taking you to 25 days leave a year and a health contribution, you'll also be able to choose from a range of benefits to suit you. We're an organisation that likes to give back, so you'll also have three charity days allocated to support a cause that matters to you.
About You:
Are you based in Kuala Lumpur and actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well... you might just be in the right place!
We're looking for an enthusiastic In House Counsel to provide dedicated legal support across our APAC region. The role reports to our UK-based Global Legal Director for Contracts and has a broad remit: commercial contracts will be the core focus, but the successful candidate will also assist the relevant global directors in managing disputes, regulatory matters and data protection matters arising in the region.
Day-to-day, you will:
support our high performing sales teams (across several divisions) that sell into markets across the APAC region.
create templates and other internal materials that help create consistency and efficiency in terms of contract risk management across the relevant Access group businesses in the APAC region.
manage a high volume of deals and ensure that sales into APAC markets are consistent with risk, commercial and pricing policies adopted across Access's other geographies.
manage the contractual aspects of enterprise sales deals throughout the sales cycle, both at bid stage and at the point of contract finalisation.
review, draft and negotiate partnership agreements, licence distribution agreements, contract variations, licensing agreements and confidentiality agreements and provide advice to the relevant Project and Sales Managers on the application of terms and conditions of those contracts.
review supplier contracts as part of our supplier management programme.
provide strategic support on corporate governance matters for APAC subsidiaries, including advising on subsidiary board structure, director obligations and entity-level governance questions.
work collaboratively with the wider legal team to execute on the global legal team's AI and legal operations strategy in the APAC region, including deploying AI tools for contract review, drafting assistance and knowledge management, maintaining the APAC contract repository and matter tracking, and contributing to playbook development.
support data protection compliance across APAC operations, including under PDPA (Malaysia), the Privacy Act (Australia and NZ) and other applicable regional regimes, working with the Global DPO function.
maintain horizon scanning across the APAC footprint, including Australian Consumer Law, financial services-adjacent regulatory requirements relevant to our accounting and tax workflow products, and emerging regulatory developments affecting SaaS businesses in the region.
act as the primary point of contact for APAC-based stakeholders on all day-to-day legal matters.
assist the relevant global directors in managing disputes and regulatory matters arising in the APAC region, providing on-the-ground support to UK-based colleagues.
manage and instruct external counsel across Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia, including matter management and cost control across partner firms.
help to ensure that contracting activities are carried out in accordance with local legislation and the Access group's policies and procedures
Report to our UK-based Global Legal Director for Contracts.
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