About The Company
Founded in 2015 to address the unmet financing needs of SMEs, Validus is the leading all-in-one SME financing platform in Southeast Asia today, providing small businesses with faster and effortless one-stop financial solutions. Headquartered in Singapore, we’re present in 4 markets – Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
We’re on a mission to drive financial inclusion and prosperity for small businesses by leveraging data, AI and strategic partnerships to drive growth financing to under-served SMEs. To date, we have disbursed over USD 3.7 billion in loans to small businesses across the region. Validus is backed by top-tier VCs and strategic investors including leading banks from Japan and Korea.
In recognition of our innovation and contribution towards SME lending transformation, Validus has won several notable accolades, including 1st place (Singapore Financial Institution), 1st runner-up (Singapore FinTech), SFF Global Fintech Leader, Top 10 FinTech Leaders Awards, LinkedIn Top 15 Startups in Singapore, and more.
Key Responsibilities
- Support internal stakeholders on the drafting, review and negotiations on a broad range of contracts, such as vendor engagements, NDAs, software licensing agreements, and other corporate and commercial activities.
- Provide legal advice to the internal stakeholders on various matters, such as contractual rights, obligations, interpretation of terms and litigation matters.
- Liaising with external legal counsel when required.
- Manage the execution of legal agreement and documents of the Company.
- Support the preliminary business projects, as required from time to time, from the point of view of legal support (mainly contract review and drafting of relevant documents).
- Research the latest developments in legal matters and keep the management updated.
- Assist with any legal due diligence or compliance projects when necessary.
- Maintenance of standard agreements and templates.
- Liaising with the corporate secretarial service provider and overseeing the corporate secretarial matter.
- Manage the administration of the contract management platform and organization of the shared folders for legal and corporate secretarial related matters.
- Other related duties assigned as needed.
Skills and Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in law from a reputable university.
- Candidate must have at least 2 years of post-qualification experience, preferably with both litigation and in-house experience.
- Candidate must possess the following skills:
Self-motivated and detail-oriented: comfortable working independently and possesses a “can-do” attitude.
Strong organizational skills: able to prioritize and manage multiple time-sensitive tasks simultaneously.
Excellent Communication skills: able to communicate across departments and work with people at all levels throughout the Company.
Confidentiality: able to maintain confidentiality and carry out assignments that are sensitive in nature.