Legal Intern (Rolling Intake)

About AirAsia Malaysia

The AirAsia Group is a multi-national airline group headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was established in 1993, the group now operates in some countries such as India, Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand.

Your role

AirAsia is a travel-tech company, the world’s best low-cost airline for 11 years in a row, and an umbrella of tech startups encompassing E-wallets, E-commerce, Logistics and so much more. With over 500 million customers flown and over 160 destinations to date, AirAsia looking for the best and brightest to join in enabling flying possible for everyone. AirAsia is fast, we cut bureaucracy and we have a ton of fun while doing it. Join our 24,000 Allstars across 25 countries today!

Provide legal support and advice fused with commercial sense as well as provide compliance and governance support.

Accountabilities

• Support the day-to-day challenges across the Airasia Superapp value chain and all lines of business.
• Help identify legal risks and alternative strategies in a defined area.
• Ensure documents accurately reflect business and commercial concerns and are consistent with legal obligations.
• Appropriately resolves common legacy and liability issues that may have a legal impact.
• Work as part of a team and with both internal and external stakeholders from diverse cultural backgrounds.
• Contribute to the team and future legal initiatives with a focus on operational excellence, continuous improvement, and driving a sustainable culture of change.

Special Challenges

• The fast-paced, virtual, and diversified business requires the successful candidate to possess: (i) excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills and is flexible, willing to learn and to take on new challenges, (ii) multitasking ability but able to work independently and under pressure with good time management, (iii) diverse and inclusive mindset who is able to work with different cultures, skill levels and different ways of working strong business acumen with the ability to assess and balance any reputational risk to the company based on the business situations.
• Strategic thinking and ability to provide advice relating to long-term business goals.
• Ability to handle a range of client demands, mixing project work and day-to-day transactions in a fast-paced environment.

Training & development

Based on interns' reviews on Glassdoor, AirAsia provides a wide range of training to develop your skill whether in-class training or on-the-job experience. In addition, the employer also has AirAsia Academy not only for the employees and interns but also for others who want to upgrade their skills.

Career progression

AirAsia does not mention specific information about the career path for interns upon the completion of the program. However, just show your best performance during your internship because most companies will prioritize top interns to be hired for future full-time hiring or other graduate programs.

Work-life balance

The rate of Air Asia's work-life balance on Glassdoor is 3.7 out of 5. For some positions, AirAsia sets flexible working hours and shifts. The important one is your supervisor or mentor won't contact you when you are on leave or on the weekends so that you can enjoy your off day.

Culture & vibe

According to interns' reviews on Indeed, it is stated that AirAsia is the best choice for the internship because it has good work culture. As shown in the video, the office and work environment looks comfortable and clean. Moreover, the colleagues are friendly and helpful.

About you

If you are interested to apply for this internship, you have to meet the following qualifications:

• Current law or a recent law school graduate or awaiting CLP examination or results.
• Fluent written and spoken English & ability to speak and/or read Chinese will be an advantage.
• Being Passionate about technology and startup issues is a bonus point.

How to apply

To apply to this position, simply click the "Apply on employer site" button on this page. We will direct you to AirAsia Malaysia's official link for this vacancy. Make sure you have read all of the requirements mentioned above.