Job Description

Location Jakarta Work Type Permanent Application Posted March 22, 2022

About the Role

The Legal Manager is responsible for ensuring that the company operates according to the highest ethical, legal, and compliance standards. As our legal manager for the Financial Services Platform, you’ll be instrumental in GoTo Financial that directly impacts the organization’s financial services business. Your main objective will be to provide legal support and advice across various departments and ensure that the best possible service can be offered to the stakeholders by adopting a customer-oriented attitude guiding stakeholders and offering them the most appropriate solution and excellent services.

You will support others by acting as an example within the job and supporting the stakeholders as a mentor (showing best practices on how to approach tasks and offer help where necessary and helping them cope with difficulties). Reporting to the Head of Legal of Financial Services Platform, you’ll also manage other corporate initiatives that are demanded by the financial services business.

What You Will Do

• Provide legal services, including advisory, agreement drafting, agreement reviewing and negotiating, and legal analysis in relation to various legal-related matters across the division and liaising professionally with the relevant team and division on any issues arising from, or impacting on, any legal matter
• Principal contact for day-to-day contractual reviews and advisory
• Check terms of standard and/ or non-standard agreements against company policy and terms of standard forms
• Management of contract renewal/extension dates and related negotiation timetable and legal SOP related
• Any other ad-hoc duties that may be required

What You Will Need

• Bachelor of Law degree. Having a master’s degree would be a strong advantage
• Have an interest or experience in financial services, law, and technology
• At least 4 years of experience in the field of law, preferably a mix of law firm and in-house experience
• Advanced level of spoken and written both in English and Indonesian language
• Ability to work and progress tasks independently, self-initiating and taking a pro-active approach towards projects; seek direction and advice as needed but also prepared to take ownership and cooperate with different teams, as well in a virtual and remote setting
• Excellent analytical skills with the capacity of identifying all risks and proactively choosing the best solutions, sound judgment, and attention to details
• Possesses the ability to adapt and has a strong willingness to work in a fast-paced team environment
• Ability to multitask and have good interpersonal skills
• Well-developed communication skills (including oral, written, and interpersonal skills) and the ability to liaise and negotiate in a variety of contexts, including building credibility and strong relationships with stakeholders and counterparts

About the Team

The GoTo Legal team is a highly collaborative group of 50 lawyers stationed across Jakarta, Singapore, and Vietnam. The gist of our role is to support the team's efforts to scale GoTo’s international business operations whilst managing legal risks appropriately. Working with the Business, Product, and various functional teams across the organization, we act as a strategic partner for GoTo on legal matters including for the financial services business in GoTo Financial, strategic deals, and partnerships, data protection & privacy, intellectual property, antitrust/competition law, fundraising, among other domains.

It’s no secret that we take our duties seriously as a team. We were also awarded the Asian Legal Business Indonesia In House Team Of The Year for 3 consecutive years 2019, 2020, and 2021 - major milestones for our legal family. What drives us is our shared goal to provide the best deliverables to our internal clients, and keep pushing our collective bar higher.

Our team, the GoTo Financial Legal, a sub-pod of the GoTo Group Legal Team has 11 lawyers based in Jakarta. We oversee the payment and financial services business of GoTo.

As a team, we’re concerned not only with the growth of the company but each other’s professional growth and well-being, too. We have regular professional development sessions to help improve the legal acumen of our members, and also take the time to bond over our shared love of delicious food and the best movies of all time.

About GoTo Financial

Imagine having a beautiful product that you create being launched to the public. Then visualize more than 55 million active users, over 14 million merchants, and more than 2.5 million driver partners benefiting from it: greater efficiency, easier access to financial services, better earnings, and more.

GoTo Financial is part of the GoTo ecosystem, a unique combination of on-demand mobility services Gojek, e-commerce platform Tokopedia, and comprehensive fintech platform GoTo Financial. This massive and integrated ecosystem enables you to work on projects that impact the lives of millions, ranging from:

1- Bringing the unbanked into formal financial system by helping them open a digital bank account with GoPay-Jago

2- Providing seamless cashless payment method in GoPay and GoPayLater to merchants and consumers,

3- Giving consumers and merchants access to responsible lending, insurance and investment products,

4- Helping offline and online merchants reap the benefits of the digital economy through Midtrans payment gateway, webstore builder GoStore, keyboard app for online sellers Selly, and point-of-sales solutions MOKA and GoKasir,

5- Supporting food merchants in simplifying their operations with GoBiz and GoBiz Plus, to

6- Creating other use cases that empower consumers and merchants to manage all money-related matters.

So join our ride to bring the benefit of the digital economy to all. We’re just getting started!

Life at GoTo Financial

GoTo Financial consists of people with big dreams and the motivation and skills to make them real. We are doers and tinkerers who want to change the financial system as it is. A community of makers.

We make it happen

We have a bias for getting things done. We discuss, debate, and commit. When we see something broken that can be fixed, we fix it. We manage our risks, then take bold decisions.

We make it together

We put star teams above star players. We don’t shoot down ideas without considering them. We hold each other accountable, and trust everyone by default.

We make it last

We put long-term greatness before short-term gratification. We believe in sustainable and responsible growth. Everything we do is in service to our mission, and we never compromise on our integrity.