Junior Legal Officer
Job Summary
Job Description
The Junior Legal Officer is responsible for ensuring the company adheres to the highest ethical, legal, and compliance standards. This role requires a strong foundation in law, particularly in commercial, product, and corporate legal matters. The officer will provide legal support for various product streams within GoTo Financial, focusing on merchant-related payment products and corporate matters. Key responsibilities include drafting, reviewing, and negotiating agreements, conducting legal analysis and research, and liaising with external legal service providers. The role also involves supporting corporate matters such as preparing reports, shareholder documentation, and business license submissions. A customer-oriented approach is essential to offer the best possible service to stakeholders. The position also emphasizes continuous learning to maintain and enhance professional knowledge in legal and product areas, aiming to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of legal advice.
Must have:
- Bachelor of Law degree
- 1-3 years of legal experience
- Advanced English and Indonesian skills
- Self-initiating and proactive
- Ability to multitask
- Well-developed communication skills
Good to have:
- Master's degree in Law
- Mix of law firm and in-house experience
2 skills required
Job Details
About The Role
The Junior Legal Officer is responsible for ensuring that the company operates according to the highest ethical, legal, and compliance standards. The candidate shall have a strong foundation in law, with a focus on commercial, product and corporate legal matters with a keen eye for detail, excellent communication skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.. The Junior Legal Officer main role is providing legal support in various product streams in GoTo Financial with main focus on merchant related under payment products and corporate, and ensuring that the best possible service can be offered to the stakeholders by adopting a customer-oriented attitude by guiding stakeholders and offering them the most appropriate solution and excellent services. Stay informed about professional knowledge and technical skills in legal and product areas to maximize the professional knowledge and to apply it within the organization in the best possible manner. The key area of focus is to make first-class know how easily available to the legal team and to the organization with the aim of increasing the quality, consistency and/or cost-effectiveness of the advice that it gives to the stakeholders.
What You Will Do
- Support corporate matters in GoTo Financial (such as preparation of LKPM report submission, Annual General Meeting Shareholder preparation, business license submission, etc’s)
- Provide legal services that mainly are in, including advisory, agreement drafting, agreement reviewing, negotiating, legal analysis, and research in relation to legal related in merchant agreements and corporate
- Liaising with external legal service providers (notary and external law firm)
- Any other ad-hoc duties that may be required.
What You Will Need
- Bachelor of Law degree. Having a master’s degree would be an advantage.
- 1 - 3 years of experience in the field of law, a mix of law firm and in-house experience would be an advantage.
- Advanced level of spoken and written English and Indonesian languages
- Ability to work by self-initiating and takes a pro-active approach towards projects; seeks direction and advice as needed, but also prepared to take ownership and cooperate with different teams, as well in remote settings.
- Ability to multitask and adapt to work in a fast-paced team environment.
- 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 Financial Legal team is part of the External Affairs Division in GoTo Financial, which is a combination of Legal, Corporate Affairs, Public Policy & Government Related, and Anti Anti-Money Laundering. GoTo Financial Legal is also heavily in collaboration with the larger GoTo Group Legal team. The gist of our role is to support the internal stakeholders' efforts to scale GoTo’s Group business operations whilst managing legal risks appropriately. GoTo Financial's legal team works closely with the Business, Product, and various functional teams across the organization, We act as a strategic partner to GoTo Group.
GoTo Financial legal focus will be mainly on the payments, lending business in GoTo Financial (i.e., payment gateway, e-money, e-wallet, multi finance, P2P lending, and merchant services), digital identity, Information technology and Artificial Intelligence, strategic deals, partnerships, data protection & privacy, intellectual property, antitrust/competition law, 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 4 consecutive years from 2019 to 2023 - 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. 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.
About GoTo Group
GoTo Group is the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia with its mission to “Empower Progress’ by offering technological infrastructure and solutions for everyone to access and thrive in the digital economy. The GoTo ecosystem consists of on-demand transportation services, food and grocery delivery, logistics and fulfillment, as well as financial and payment services through the Gojek and GoTo Financial platforms.It is the first platform in Southeast Asia that hosts these crucial cases in a single ecosystem, capturing the majority of Indonesia’s vast consumer household.
About Gojek
Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand platform and pioneer of the multi-service ecosystem with over 2.5 million driver partners across the regions offering a wide range of services such as transportation, food delivery, logistics and more. With its mission to create impact at scale, Gojek is committed to resolving consumer problems and raising standards of living by connecting consumers to the best providers of goods and services in the market.
About GoTo Financial
GoTo Financial accelerates financial inclusion through its leading financial services and merchants solutions. Its consumer services include GoPay and GoPayLater and serve businesses of all sizes through Midtrans, Moka, GoBiz Plus, GoBiz, and Selly. With its trusted and inclusive ecosystem of products, GoTo Financial is open to new growth opportunities and aims to empower everyone to Make It Happen, Make It Together, Make It Last.
GoTo and its business units, including Gojek and GoToFinancial ( "GoTo" ) only post job opportunities on our official channels on our respective company websites and on LinkedIn. GoTo is not liable for any job postings or job offers that did not originate from us. You should conduct your own due diligence to prevent being victims of any fake job scams, if they did not originate from GoTo's official recruitment channels.
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About The Company
GoTo is the largest technology group in Indonesia, combining on-demand and financial services through the Gojek and GoTo Financial brands. It is the first platform in Southeast Asia to host these two essential use cases in one ecosystem, capturing a majority of Indonesian consumer household expenditure.
GoTo’s mission is to “Empower Progress” by offering an unparalleled selection of goods and services through a comprehensive merchant and partner network and promoting financial inclusion through its leading payments and financial services business.
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