Legal Counsel

Axiom is supporting a highgrowth technology business seeking an immediately available legal contractor to provide interim support to its payments and regulatory function for a 34month engagement. This role sits within a fastpaced productdriven environment and will work closely with senior leaders across payments risk and compliance to maintain momentum while permanent hiring is underway. The engagement offers full flexibility on location weekly hours and seniority level provided the contractor can operate autonomously and deliver pragmatic commercially grounded regulatory advice. This opportunity would suit a paymentsfocused legal professional who thrives in agile techenabled settings and is comfortable managing varied workstreams across product development regulatory interpretation and crossfunctional stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Assists in the development and expansion of payments products across the Australian US and UK markets.
• Provides guidance to Product and Engineering teams on AFSL AML and broader riskmanagement obligations.
• Delivers legal insight and riskmitigation support for highpriority strategic initiatives and incident response matters.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with regulators and technical subjectmatter experts.
• Works closely with Product Engineering Marketing and Privacy teams to embed financialcrime considerations into product design.
• Supports daytoday legal operations to ensure continuity and momentum across the payments legal workstream.

Requirements:

• Brings practical experience in payments and financial services ideally gained in techenabled or productdriven environments rather than large traditional financial institutions.
• Demonstrates strong working knowledge of licensing antimoneylaundering requirements and broader regulatory risk frameworks relevant to payments operations.
• Communicates complex regulatory concepts clearly and works effectively in fastmoving crossfunctional settings with minimal oversight.
• Manages multiple priorities confidently and fits within a flexible engagement model whether fulltime for a shorter period or parttime across the full 34month term.

Why Rejoin Axiom

• Flexibility:Choose assignments that fit your lifestyle and career goals.
• Professional Growth:Continue to develop your expertise through diverse projects.
• Community:Reconnect with a network of forward-thinking legal professionals.
• Impact:Contribute to impactful work with leading global organizations.

Compensation Benefits & Location:

This role offers a highly competitive compensation and benefits package in the alternative legal services marketplace that includes health benefits pension and more. Axiomites also get access to professional development resources and learning and development programs. Axiomites predominately work remotely with the exception that some clients require on-site presence.

Axiom is the global leader in high-calibre on-demand legal talent. Covering North America the UK Europe and APAC we enable legal departments to drive efficiency and growth and meet the demands of todays business landscape with best in breed alterative legal services.

Axiom is a leader in diversity inclusion and social engagement. Diversity is core to our values and we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be named a best place to work for LGBTQ Equality earning top marks in the 2021 Corporate Equality Index for the second consecutive year. Axioms legal department is Mansfield certified and is committed to considering at least 50% diverse candidates for leadership roles and outside counsel representation.

Learn more about working at Axiom.

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