REGIONAL HEAD OF LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE OFFICER Asia - #1173273

Regional Head of Legal and Compliance Officer Asia

The Regional Head of Legal will assist in providing commercial and legal counselling related to matters for SYSTRA in Asia.

The Regional Head of Legal will report directly to the Senior Vice President for Asia (based in Singapore) and will report functionally to the Legal Director Contracts and Operations (based in Paris).

She/he shall ensure that both legal support and policy are consistently and effectively deployed across the business, that contractual risks are under control and that SYSTRA’s operating needs are met. In addition, she/he will provide general legal support to all operational divisions and departments of the group according to SYSTRA Group needs and requirements.

The Regional Head of Legal and Compliance Officer will be based in Singapore.

He/She should have minimum 3 years of relevant experience as a Regional Head of Legal.

The candidate shall be responsible to

• Provide legal advice and analysis on the full range of issues (mainly contractual and litigation)arising in Asia.
• Draft, evaluate and advise on a variety of contracts and agreements with respect to SYSTRA’s projects in Asia
• Support in contractual negotiations with the client so that business requirements are met.
• Create and maintain relationship with internal clients and operational teams, clients, consortium partners, subcontractors, as the case may be, and their legal advisors on a day-to-day basis to facilitate reporting to senior management.
• Maintain records for correspondence and documentation in relation to established Contracts and those in progress.
• Work closely with the contract management team for the zone covered to secure the close-out, extension or renewal to serve the best interests of SYSTRA.
• Be aware, understand and obtain thorough knowledge about the active projects and the tenders in preparation in the region(s) assigned.
• Challenge legal matters through risks identification and provide mitigation advice.
• Offer support and guidance toother members of the legal department.
• Engage with management to meet goals and ensure adherence to important corporate and regulatory policies through training.
• Manage the local corporate processes for entities based in Asia, in coordination with other departments.
• Liaise with local insurance brokers for projects and tenders.
• Draft legal notices and lead the support towards management of dispute cases.
• Prepare, ensure respect of and apply Systra’s governance (including board of directors and shareholder meetings, company secretarial)/compliance rules, as per the Systra’s Group applicable rules. In terms of the role as Compliance Officer, the missions are as follows:
• Implementing Group's ethics and compliance program locally
• Relaying Group communications on ethics
• Implementing ethical procedures and culture, and implementing the Group's ethics and compliance program, locally and with respect to local risks
• Conducting local assessment of ethical risks together with the Ethics Directorate, to map the Group's ethical risks,
• Acting as the main contact on these topics for Asia
• Reporting any difficulties and all ethics alerts to the Ethics Directorate
• Assisting the Group Compliance Officer during investigation
• Carrying out the training programme defined by the Ethics Directorate
• Controlling that ethical rules are applied properly
• Ensuring that the integrity of business partners is assessed, which includes approving, or not, such partners in terms of ethics iance Officer