Responsibilities:

• Look after legal and compliance aspects of the Group's business, covering capital markets, banking and/or trust businesses, and deal with legal issues in connection therewith
• Draft, review, revise and negotiate on legal documents
• Ensure the business practices and transactions are within the framework of the law at all times
• Communicate with and handle questions from regulators which are relevant to the Group's businesses
• Respond to complaints on and investigate alleged violations of rules, policies and procedures by evaluating or recommending sensible solutions
• Develop and oversee standard of conduct in daily operations
• Provide advisory service to management on business-related issues and recommend sensible solutions to issues and problems
• Assist in maintaining and updating policies and procedures 
• Keep abreast of legislative changes and update legal documents in light of the legislative changes
• Liaise with external counsels to manage access to specialized legal services
• Handle various company secretarial matters and supervise external secretarial companies 
• Legal documentation filing, registration and record keeping 

Requirements:

• A qualified US attorney with 5 to 8 years practical experience in the financial services industry and/or capital market industry
• Degree holder of LLB, LLM or JD
• Excellent analytical skills, with the ability to understand complex issues
• Ability to give practical, well-reasoned and well-researched written legal advice
• Excellent command of both spoken and written Chinese and English
• Proven legal counseling experience in a business environment
• Overall broad legal knowledge (corporate, capital market, banking, litigations, labor law, etc.)
• Ability to independently develop legal strategies and objectives, and work independently with minimal supervision
• Ability to lead and coordinate projects 
• High degree of professional ethics and integrity
• First class interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to anticipate legal issues or risks and to "see around the corner"
• Working Location : Central