Legal & Compliance Manager

Are you a strategic legal professional with strong commercial awareness and a passion for ensuring business integrity, regulatory compliance, and effective risk management?

LYD Bali Group is looking for an experienced Legal & Compliance Manager to oversee legal affairs, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and risk management across our diverse portfolio of hospitality, food & beverage, retail, lifestyle, and other business operations in Bali.

This role will work closely with senior management and cross-functional teams to ensure that our businesses operate in accordance with applicable Indonesian laws and regulations while supporting sustainable business growth.

Key Responsibilities

1. Legal Affairs & Corporate Governance

- Provide legal advice and practical recommendations to management on business operations, commercial transactions, and corporate matters.

- Review, draft, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements, leases, vendor contracts, partnership agreements, NDAs, and other legal documents.

- Coordinate corporate legal matters involving PT entities, including corporate documentation, licensing, and changes to corporate information in collaboration with relevant professionals and authorities.

- Maintain proper legal records, contract registers, and corporate documentation.

- Support management in developing and implementing corporate governance standards and policies.

2. Regulatory Compliance & Licensing

- Monitor and ensure compliance with applicable Indonesian laws and regulations relevant to the Group’s businesses.

- Oversee business licensing, permits, regulatory submissions, and renewal schedules in coordination with the relevant departments and external advisers.

- Coordinate compliance matters relating to employment, taxation, immigration, hospitality operations, food and beverage, retail, environmental requirements, and other applicable regulations.

- Maintain a regulatory compliance register and communicate relevant legal updates and their business implications to management.

- Coordinate regulatory inspections, audits, and correspondence with government authorities.

3. Risk Management & Legal Disputes

- Identify legal, regulatory, contractual, and operational compliance risks and recommend appropriate mitigation measures.

- Manage legal disputes, claims, and litigation matters in coordination with external legal counsel.

- Support internal investigations involving potential misconduct, fraud, contractual breaches, or regulatory non-compliance, while maintaining confidentiality and procedural fairness.

- Develop and monitor corrective action plans to address identified compliance gaps.

4. Policies, SOPs & Compliance Monitoring

- Develop, review, and update company policies, SOPs, and compliance guidelines in collaboration with relevant departments.

- Establish practical compliance monitoring mechanisms across the Group’s venues and entities.

- Conduct periodic compliance reviews and coordinate internal or external audits where required.

- Provide compliance awareness sessions and guidance to management and operational teams.

- Maintain appropriate reporting and escalation procedures for material legal and compliance issues.

5. Stakeholder & External Counsel Management

- Liaise with notaries, external legal counsel, consultants, government authorities, and other relevant stakeholders.

- Manage external legal service providers, including scope of work, deliverables, timelines, and legal expenditure.

- Prepare clear legal updates, risk assessments, and recommendations for senior management.

Requirements & Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Law (S.H.) from a recognised university.

- Minimum 5–7 years of relevant legal experience, preferably in hospitality, F&B, retail, property, or a multi-entity corporate environment.

- Experience in Indonesian corporate law, commercial contracts, business licensing, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance.

- Strong understanding of Indonesian legal and regulatory frameworks relevant to business operations.

- Experience managing legal risks, regulatory matters, external counsel, and contractual negotiations.

- Professional proficiency in Bahasa Indonesia and good working proficiency in English.

- Strong analytical, negotiation, communication, and problem-solving skills.

- High integrity, attention to detail, discretion, and the ability to manage confidential information.

- Ability to work independently, prioritise competing demands, and collaborate effectively with senior management and operational teams.

Preferred qualifications:

- Advocate licence or relevant professional legal credentials, where applicable to the role.

- Experience supporting multiple Indonesian PT entities and working with notaries and government authorities.

- Experience establishing compliance registers, risk matrices, contract management systems, and internal control frameworks.

What We Offer

- The opportunity to contribute to a diverse and growing Bali-based business group.

- Exposure to multi-entity corporate governance and a broad range of commercial and operational legal matters.

- Direct collaboration with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.

- A dynamic, collaborative, and entrepreneurial working environment.

- Opportunities to strengthen the Group’s legal and compliance framework while supporting responsible business growth.