Legal Counsel

• Partner with the business: Provide clear practical legal advice that helps teams navigate legal and regulatory requirements and make informed decisions.
• Support commercial agreements: Draft review and negotiate supplier technology distribution service and other commercial contracts.
• Support new initiatives: Provide legal input into new products projects business initiatives regulatory change and improvements to systems and services.
• Support AI and innovation: Advise on legal regulatory contractual and privacy considerations relating to AI-enabled tools data and emerging technology.
• Navigate regulatory requirements: Provide advice across areas such as consumer credit AML/CTF competition and consumer law franchising real estate licensing privacy employment and intellectual property.
• Support customer matters: Provide legal guidance on complex or escalated customer complaints and other customer-related legal matters.
• Manage legal and regulatory risk: Help identify emerging risks and support the business in meeting its legal regulatory and policy obligations.
• Improve how we work: Contribute to Legal team processes templates and tools that make legal support more efficient consistent and scalable.
• Work with external advisers: Support the engagement and management of external counsel where specialist advice is required.

Qualifications :

What Youll Bring

• Legal experience gained in-house and/or within private practice ideally within financial services lending fintech technology or another regulated industry.
• A law degree and current practising certificate.
• Strong commercial judgement and the ability to turn complex legal issues into clear practical advice.
• Experience drafting reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to identify legal and regulatory risks and work collaboratively with stakeholders to find practical solutions.
• Strong relationship-building skills and confidence working with stakeholders across different areas of a business.
• A proactive organised and collaborative approach with the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience within mortgage broking lending banking fintech or financial services.
• Knowledge of Australian consumer credit regulation and the NCCP framework.
• Exposure to franchising real estate privacy AML/CTF or competition and consumer law.
• Experience advising on AI data digital products or technology-related matters.
• Exposure to customer complaints regulatory matters or working with external legal advisers.

Additional Information :

Lendi Group teams operate across Australia and the Philippines. Bringing together diverse expertise innovative technology and a customer-first approach our teams work seamlessly to simplify the property journey helping Australians find buy and own property with confidence.

We support our people in a variety of ways but a few of the benefits that our people rave about include:

• A vibrant relaxed yet professional culture.
• Hybrid working arrangement designed to support work-life balance while fostering meaningful connection and collaboration.
• A holistic wellbeing programs offering 24/7 support including medical mental health and financial wellbeing services to enable our workforce to thrive at home and work.
• Generous paid Parental Leave: we celebrate our growing Lendi Group family with 18-26 weeks leave for primary carers and up to 4 weeks for secondary carers.
• An additional weeks Loyalty Leave each year after reaching 3 years service.
• Wellness initiatives with a strong focus on psychological safety.

Were committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive community at Lendi Group. We believe that a team reflecting the world around us leads to greater innovation stronger collaboration and a more engaging workplace.

Our culture is guided by our 3 core values: We Are Stronger United; Act Like You Own It; and Keep Home Loans Human. Our values are part of our core DNA that helps Lendi Group attract engage and evolve talent and build best-in-class products.

Feeling like you dont meet all the skills listed Thats ok; we are always on the lookout for different skills experience and qualities and so wed still like to hear from you.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time