# Manager, Legal, Risk & Compliance

**Company**: Howden
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Insurance

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced Manager, Legal, Risk & Compliance to join our team in Hong Kong. The ideal candidate will provide day-to-day legal, risk and compliance support to the business operations, ensure that commercial activities are conducted with a sound regulatory, ethical and internal control frameworks.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Serve as a trusted legal and compliance adviser to senior management, providing strategic, commercially focused guidance and local subject matter expertise to support business objectives within a robust legal, governance and audit frameworks.

- Lead the management of complex disputes, complaints and legal matters, including oversight of external counsel, to ensure effective and commercially sound outcomes.

- Draft, review and negotiation of key commercial agreements, ensuring appropriate risk allocation and alignment with the firm’s strategic priorities.

- Interpret and anticipate legal and regulatory developments, shaping business responses and driving proactive compliance strategies across the organisation.

- Provide leadership oversight on compliance matters, including regulatory and business licensing obligations, financial crime controls, and internal policy governance.

- Drive the development and continuous enhancement of legal, risk and compliance frameworks, ensuring alignment with group standards and local regulatory expectations.

- Oversee risk management activities, including risk identification, assessment and control effectiveness, to support informed decision-making.

- Act as a business partner across functions and the region, influencing stakeholders and promoting a strong culture of integrity, accountability and risk awareness.

**Requirements:**

- Degree holder in law and admitted to practise in Hong Kong. A current practising certificate is preferred but not essential.

- 8–10 years of relevant experience including insurance or reinsurance broking industry or in a role providing in-house counsel services to the insurance or finance sectors, or regulated bodies.

- Possess a strong working knowledge of insurance or reinsurance broking operations, contractual frameworks commonly used in the broking market.

- Professional and confident in handling legal and ethical matters, with the ability to provide constructive, compliant solutions and escalate in a timely manner.

- Commercially minded, with the ability to balance legal rigour with pragmatic, solutions-oriented advice.

- Strong written and oral communication skills in both English and Cantonese are essential.

**Benefits:**

- Hybrid working

- Free beverage in workplace

- Competitive compensation

- Birthday leave

- Employee stock options and more

## Skills

### Required
- law
- compliance
- risk management
- insurance
- reinsurance
- Cantonese

### Nice to have
- regulatory landscape in Hong Kong

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