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Company Introduction:

We’re home to Asia's most dynamic and vibrant capital markets.
Connecting capital, ideas, inspiration and innovation for deeper, more diverse and liquid global capital markets; providing greater choice and opportunity for our customers, each and every day.

HKEX is a purpose-driven company. Our commitment to the long-term development of our business and our markets is articulated in our purpose: "To Connect, Promote and Progress our Markets and the Communities they support for the prosperity of all."

Job Summary:
The Legal Services Department of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (“HKEX”) is seeking a motivated and dynamic individual to join its existing team to assist in all aspects of legal work involved in the implementation of HKEX’s strategic plan and to advise and support its business units.

Company Introduction:
We’re home to Asia's most dynamic and vibrant capital markets.
Connecting capital, ideas, inspiration and innovation for deeper, more diverse and liquid global capital markets; providing greater choice and opportunity for our customers, each and every day.
HKEX is a purpose-driven company. Our commitment to the long-term development of our business and our markets is articulated in our purpose: "To Connect, Promote and Progress our Markets and the Communities they support for the prosperity of all."
Job Summary:
The Legal Services Department of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (“HKEX”) is seeking a motivated and dynamic individual to join its existing team to assist in all aspects of legal work involved in the implementation of HKEX’s strategic plan and to advise and support its business units.
Job Duties:

• Provide advice to business units and senior management on legal and regulatory issues arising from the day-to-day operation of HKEX group companies;
• Draft, review and advice on rule amendments of the exchanges and the clearing houses;
• Review a wide range of contracts relating to the engagement of consultants and vendors, regulatory cooperation and other aspects of HKEX's group activities; and
• Work with and manage external counsel and undertake a mix of typical in-house functions
  

• Hong Kong qualified lawyer with at least 8 years' post qualification experience and a focus on or exposure to financial services/regulatory matters
• Excellent written and spoken English and good Chinese language skills is essential with proficiency in Putonghua would be an added advantage
• A strong team player with good commercial sense and the ability to work independently
• Candidates with experience in the following areas will be considered favourably: experience in derivatives (including OTC derivatives), providing advice on the Securities and Futures Ordinance and the rules and regulations of the exchanges and the clearing houses or financial regulation in other major jurisdictions
• Prior in-house experience is helpful but not essential. Experience gained from international law firms, overseas exchanges or clearing houses will add great value to this role
  

• Seniority level Executive

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Legal

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Project Manager, Legal Software Professional Services, Asia

The role requires the person to work closely with other project team members, peer project managers and partner consulting teams. The person will provide consulting services to external clients, manage and lead projects to successful outcomes for clients and Thomson Reuters, and be the partner to clients by providing deep subject matter expertise and helping them adopt technological change.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Project Manager, Legal Software Professional Services, Asia , you will:

Owns the delivery of Legal Software project implementations for customers across Corporates and Legal Firms

• Drives the successful delivery of global projects pertaining to the implementation of Thomson Reuters Legal Software products, namely HighQ, Contract Express and Legal Tracker.
• Establishes strong project governance practices, leading clients to implement, adopt and retain Thomson Reuters products.
• Can scope out a small/mid/large projects based on business requirements and achievable benefits.
• Can create Statement-of-Work and workplans. Can direct and guide the customer and teams to on-time and on-budget completion for both time and material and fixed fee projects.
• Manages portfolio level profitability to achieve financials KPIs.

Provides subject matter leadership to clients and team.

• Builds strong client relationships, leveraging those relationships to drive upsell and cross sell
• Brings strong functional and domain knowledge on Legal process transformation. Serves as a "trusted business advisor" to clients.
• Engages with General Counsels, lawyers and IT departments, leading conversations and guiding decisions
• Manages client relationships, especially at C-levels and Department Heads.
• Provides subject matter depth and expertise to team.

Provides Leadership to a matrix team

• Spends a portion of time managing team or providing guidance.
• Has autonomy to make exceptions that follow established guidelines.
• Responsible for cost of own team/project, and/or contributing to forecasting budgets and recommending expenditure.
• Responsible for quality and timeliness of own work, as well as accountability for members of the team.
• Gives advice to team members and colleagues on functional matters.
• Broad decision making authority for routine issues.
• Provides key insights and formulates recommendations to the broader function.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Project Manager, Legal Software Professional Services, Asia if your background includes:

• Strong experience in project management, legal advisory, professional services or consulting experience in a client-facing roles.
• Strong experience in Legal Tech industry, implementing or managing technology-enabled transformations or process changes.
• Experience in adopting or implementing technology in legal function in Firms or Corporates, with a good understanding of how technology can bring efficiencies and key challenges involved
• Specialized Industry knowledge required:
  • Deep experience in enterprise scale legal software implementation or product companies
  • Deep domain and functional expertise in Legal Operations, with strong understanding of legal process in Corporates and Legal Firms.
• Must possess strong cross team/group/org collaboration skills; ability to foresee and analyze project risks, develop risk management plan and mitigate subsequent issues.
• Must have high-powered analytical skills and the ability to understand concepts and situations that require quick decision for mitigation.
• fluent in written and spoken English and Mandarin.
• The position requires up to 25% travel.

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What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here .

Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here .

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

Project Manager, Legal Software Professional Services, Asia

The role requires the person to work closely with other project team members, peer project managers and partner consulting teams. The person will provide consulting services to external clients, manage and lead projects to successful outcomes for clients and Thomson Reuters, and be the partner to clients by providing deep subject matter expertise and helping them adopt technological change.

About the Role

In this opportunity as Project Manager, Legal Software Professional Services, Asia , you will:

Owns the delivery of Legal Software project implementations for customers across Corporates and Legal Firms

• Drives the successful delivery of global projects pertaining to the implementation of Thomson Reuters Legal Software products, namely HighQ, Contract Express and Legal Tracker.
• Establishes strong project governance practices, leading clients to implement, adopt and retain Thomson Reuters products.
• Can scope out a small/mid/large projects based on business requirements and achievable benefits.
• Can create Statement-of-Work and workplans. Can direct and guide the customer and teams to on-time and on-budget completion for both time and material and fixed fee projects.
• Manages portfolio level profitability to achieve financials KPIs.

Provides subject matter leadership to clients and team.

• Builds strong client relationships, leveraging those relationships to drive upsell and cross sell
• Brings strong functional and domain knowledge on Legal process transformation. Serves as a "trusted business advisor" to clients.
• Engages with General Counsels, lawyers and IT departments, leading conversations and guiding decisions
• Manages client relationships, especially at C-levels and Department Heads.
• Provides subject matter depth and expertise to team.

Provides Leadership to a matrix team

• Spends a portion of time managing team or providing guidance.
• Has autonomy to make exceptions that follow established guidelines.
• Responsible for cost of own team/project, and/or contributing to forecasting budgets and recommending expenditure.
• Responsible for quality and timeliness of own work, as well as accountability for members of the team.
• Gives advice to team members and colleagues on functional matters.
• Broad decision making authority for routine issues.
• Provides key insights and formulates recommendations to the broader function.

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Project Manager, Legal Software Professional Services, Asia if your background includes:

• Strong experience in project management, legal advisory, professional services or consulting experience in a client-facing roles.
• Strong experience in Legal Tech industry, implementing or managing technology-enabled transformations or process changes.
• Experience in adopting or implementing technology in legal function in Firms or Corporates, with a good understanding of how technology can bring efficiencies and key challenges involved
• Specialized Industry knowledge required:
  • Deep experience in enterprise scale legal software implementation or product companies
  • Deep domain and functional expertise in Legal Operations, with strong understanding of legal process in Corporates and Legal Firms.
• Must possess strong cross team/group/org collaboration skills; ability to foresee and analyze project risks, develop risk management plan and mitigate subsequent issues.
• Must have high-powered analytical skills and the ability to understand concepts and situations that require quick decision for mitigation.
• fluent in written and spoken English and Mandarin.
• The position requires up to 25% travel.

#LI-RZ1

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.

• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.

• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.

• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

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Who are we?

LOD (Lawyers On Demand) is the market-leading hub for flexible legal services. We pair talented consultants with clients looking for an alternative resource providing high-quality work across a broad range of industries.

Over the past decade, we’ve transformed the way in which lawyers, consultants and legal teams work. Today, we’re one of the largest and fastest growing flexible legal services businesses, continuing to lead the market we created and completing hundreds of assignments with the world’s leading businesses and law firms. Our full time and part time assignments typically include working within our clients’ organisations on secondment.

Who are we looking for?

We’re currently working on a full-time assignment with an investment bank and we’re interested in hearing from mid to senior level Japanese speaking funds/financial services lawyers available at short notice to join us to commence their LOD journey straightaway.

To join us, you will have the following attributes:

• 6+ years of relevant experience with reputable law firm and/or in-house/secondment experience
• Experienced in funds/asset management and/or financial services regulatory matters
• Familiar with financial services regulations in Japan
• Fluent in Japanese
• Currently living in Hong Kong/Singapore and is available to start assignments at short notice

You will have a hands-on, can-do approach, be able to use your initiative and not be afraid to roll up your sleeves.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to do high quality work with leading global corporations, whilst receiving continuous support to help you build your career. You'll be part of a team of highly regarded consultants and an established global network of support staff.

• Join the world’s fastest growing new model legal services and consulting business
• Work directly with any one of a number of market leading global clients
• Broaden your experience by working in a variety of organisations and industries
• Work flexibly, whilst deciding when and how much you work

What's next?

If you are interested in this role, simply click the 'Easy Apply' button.

LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity & Inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Contract

• Job function Legal and Consulting
• Industries Law Practice

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Central & Western District, Hong Kong SAR 1 week ago

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1 day ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Direct message the job poster from Lawyers On Demand

Who are we?

LOD (Lawyers On Demand) is the market-leading hub for flexible legal services. We pair talented consultants with clients looking for an alternative resource providing high-quality work across a broad range of industries.

Over the past decade, we’ve transformed the way in which lawyers, consultants and legal teams work. Today, we’re one of the largest and fastest growing flexible legal services businesses, continuing to lead the market we created and completing hundreds of assignments with the world’s leading businesses and law firms. Our full time and part time assignments typically include working within our clients’ organisations on secondment.

Who are we looking for?

We’re currently working on a full-time assignment with an investment bank and we’re interested in hearing from mid to senior level Japanese speaking funds/financial services lawyers available at short notice to join us to commence their LOD journey straightaway.

To join us, you will have the following attributes:

• 6+ years of relevant experience with reputable law firm and/or in-house/secondment experience
• Experienced in funds/asset management and/or financial services regulatory matters
• Familiar with financial services regulations in Japan
• Fluent in Japanese
• Currently living in Hong Kong/Singapore and is available to start assignments at short notice

You will have a hands-on, can-do approach, be able to use your initiative and not be afraid to roll up your sleeves.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to do high quality work with leading global corporations, whilst receiving continuous support to help you build your career. You'll be part of a team of highly regarded consultants and an established global network of support staff.

• Join the world’s fastest growing new model legal services and consulting business
• Work directly with any one of a number of market leading global clients
• Broaden your experience by working in a variety of organisations and industries
• Work flexibly, whilst deciding when and how much you work

What's next?

If you are interested in this role, simply click the 'Easy Apply' button.

LOD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Diversity & Inclusion is a core part of our Ways of Working, and we celebrate and embrace it. We know the individual differences of our people make us collectively better and we encourage all applicants; including people with disability, career breaks, gender diverse, LGBTQIA, and culturally diverse communities to join us so we can do great things together.

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Contract

• Job function Legal and Consulting
• Industries Law Practice

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