Funding Societies | Modalku is the largest SME digital finance platform in Southeast Asia. We are licensed and operating in Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia andVietnam, and backed by Sequoia India (Peak XV), Softbank Vision Fund, Khazanah and SMBC bank amongst many others. Funding Societies | Modalku provides business financing to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which is funded by individual and institutional investors, as well as payments solutions to SMEs and consumers.
Here at Funding Societies | Modalku we live by our core values GETFS:
- Grow Relentlessly: Strive to become our best, most authentic selves.
- Enable Teamwork, Disable Politics: Only by forging togetherness, we help each other succeed.
- Test Measure Act: Stay curious and reinvent ourselves, through innovation and experimentation.
- Focus on Impact: Create impact through bias for action and tangible results.
- Serve with Obsession: Build win-win relationships for the long-term by having a customer obsession.
We are seeking for a strong candidate for the position of Senior Executive, Legal. In this role, you will be an integral part of the Legal team, providing essential support for daily legal requirements across Singapore and Malaysia, while also engaging in Group-level legal initiatives. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Business, Operations, Credit, Payments, Product, and Engineering, on various transactions and projects, which involve commercial agreements, product structuring, regulatory responses, and digital legal tools. This position is ideally suited for a proactive legal professional eager to apply their legal expertise to create a tangible impact in a dynamic fintech environment.
What you will do:
- Supporting day-to-day business needs across Singapore and Malaysia while contributing to Group-level work (such as equity/debt fundraising, due diligence exercises).
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements (e.g., financing documents, collaboration agreements, partnership contracts, shareholders’ agreements, share sale agreements, service agreements, NDAs).
- Conduct legal research and provide support on various ad-hoc matters, including customer complaints, scam or impersonation cases, regulatory queries, and audits.
- Communicate and collaborate with internal stakeholders across diverse technical disciplines to provide clear, practical legal advice.
- Support debt recovery efforts, including liaising with external legal counsel to issue letters of demand (LOD), commence legal proceedings, initiate winding-up actions, and enforce court judgments.
- Drive assigned initiatives and projects, including system and tracker improvements, knowledge management, tender processes, and AI and automation implementation.
Requirements
What we are looking for:
- 2 to 4 years post qualification experience from a reputable law firm, with a background in corporate, banking, or commercial practice.
- Strong skills in legal drafting, document review, and research.
- High ownership and accountability; self-driven, solutions oriented, and motivated to deliver results.
- Pragmatic and street smart, able to grasp technical subject matter (e.g., product, technology, operations) quickly and communicate clearly with non legal stakeholders.
- Possesses good commercial judgment and the ability to provide balanced, business oriented legal solutions.
- Comfortable working in a fast paced, high growth environment.
- IT proficient - confident using spreadsheets, shared drives, and internal trackers.
Benefits
- Time off - We would love you to take time off to rest and rejuvenate. We offer flexible paid vacations as well as many other observed holidays by country. We also like to have our people take a day off for special days like birthdays and work anniversaries.
- Flexible working - We believe in giving back the control of work & life to our people. We trust our people and love to provide the space to accommodate each and everyone's working style and personal life.
- Medical benefits - We offer health insurance coverage for our employees and dependents. Our people focus on our mission knowing we have their backs for their loved ones too.
- Mental health and wellness - We understand that our team productivity is directly linked to our mental and physical health. Hence we organize org-wide fitness initiatives and engage partners to provide well-being coaching.
- Tech support - We provide a company laptop for our employees and the best possible support for the right equipment/tools to enable high productivity
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